Metaverse Teaching:A Higher Form of Digital Teaching Transformation in Higher Education

With the new technological revolution,information technology is rapidly changing human thinking and actions,promoting changes in higher education and teaching in the digital era.The digital transformation of higher education has become the greatest driving force for the adaptation and leading development of higher education and teaching.In this wave of digital transformation in education and teaching,the metaverse education and teaching has received widespread attention due to its imaginative features such as virtual agility,wonderful vividness,and intelligent linkage.The origin of the metaverse is outlined and the educational metaverse is analyzed.Focusing on the basic characteristics,theoretical basis,mapping and interaction between “virtual” and “real”,learning methods,as well as basic classification and process of situational and scenario based teaching,this paper analyses the teaching of the metaverse,discusses the teaching cases and practical progress of the metaverse.The preliminary architecture and core functions of the metaverse teaching platform is provided,and a thorough systematic explanation is given.Finally,it analyzes the intelligent meta-universe teaching enabled by AI technology,and points out that it opens up new avenues for curriculum construction and teaching reform.In terms of teaching resources and content,environment and space,organization and form,methods and technologies,new forms will be given,providing new choices for teaching and learning.It explaines the basic logic of promoting the digital transformation of higher education through intelligent metaverse teaching,and analyzes the technologies that urgently need to be broken through to restrict the widespread application of metaverse teaching.The promising future of teaching in the metaverse urgently requires more in-depth research in concepts,ideas,and theories,as well as synchronous or even advanced exploration and experimentation in practice.It requires the academic community of education and teaching,the scientific and technological innovation technology community,and the research and development manufacturing industry to work together to create a new future for the transformation of digital teaching in universities.