Artificial Intelligence and Metaverse in Education

19Redefining Learning in the Digital Era

Ouafa Ouarniki^1* and Houda Boumediene²

¹SIGMA Laboratory, Department of English, Ziane Achour University of Djelfa, Djelfa, Algeria

²AILE Laboratory, Department of English, Amar Telidji University of Laghouat, Laghouat, Algeria

Abstract

This chapter explores the pains and agonies of integrating education into the digital era with a greater focus on effective educational technology integration. It summarizes the pains encountered by teachers during their shift away from the traditional pedagogy model toward collaborative use with digital tools, including inadequate training, lack of adequate resources, and overwhelming heterogeneity of technologies to choose from as major problems. The chapter illustrates the need for teachers’ continuous professional development, backed by institutions, in digital literacy skill domains to enable students. It also discloses the equity issue because the digital divide deprives marginalized groups of the ability to meaningfully contribute to digital learning. It recommends interventions to close the gap with a vision of equal access to quality education. It identifies the issue of student motivation in distance education and remedies such as collaborative learning, gamification, and instant feedback to better motivate students. It also raises ethical issues, namely, those of privacy and data protection, and calls upon institutions to develop policies that would help protect students’ data. Lastly, the ...