Dr. Craig Wilson
The metaverse presents a unique opportunity for higher education to broaden inclusiveness for students, faculty, and staff. As the shift from the 4th to the 5th industrial revolution occurs, bold approaches to education and its delivery are required to ensure more people are included in its development, curation and distribution. Rather than repeat acknowledged shortcomings related to educational diversity, the Metaversity Framework seeks to catalyze this technological moment in time to further social understanding and empathy while advancing educational opportunity for learners. The Metaversity Framework introduces a four-phase approach to what education could be like by the year 2100 based on foundational layers of “universitas magistrorum et scholarium,” active shared university governance accepting of risk, and society’s inevitable human expansion. #metaversityframework
