Transforming Education with Virtual Reality

20Metaverse: Reimagining the Future of Teaching-Learning

Mihir Vaidya and Meenal Pendse^*

Dr. Vishwanath Karad, MIT-World Peace University, School of Business, Pune, India

Abstract

Before the internet, education was limited to the four walls of the classroom, where lessons were taught solely using a blackboard and textbooks. There was very little automation that was integrated into schooling when the internet first took over the world and we got Web 1.0. There weren’t many creators that were capable of producing online educational content. As a result, only that content was available in the event that educational assistance was needed, and all reliance was placed on those sources. The lack of opportunity for interpersonal interaction was another drawback. The created content was in a read-only format. These documents could neither be saved nor recreated. Students were required to record any notes communicated through this media in their notebooks. There was a feeling that technologies needed to be improved in order to get around limitations in Web 1.0. So, research on how to advance the technology started, and Web 2.0, a new iteration of the internet, arose. Web 2.0 made it simple to create content, which led to an increase in content producers and data sources. Web 2.0 offered greater interactivity. Students could study together. Web 2.0 also made it feasible to communicate remotely using programs like Skype. Nevertheless, it had drawbacks of its own. Even though this edition ...