METAVERSE IN THE CONTEXT OF EDUCATION

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine the Metaverse and education phenomena in the light of current literature and to explain the salient points regarding the Metaverse and the future fiction in education in the context of Turkey. The study was structured as a compilation and in the literature review, the studies between the years 2010-2022 were emphasized. In the study; The focus is on topics such as the Metaverse roadmap, dimensions, Metaversal training, current initiatives and data. In the context of Turkey, the points that policy makers should follow on Metaverse are explained. As a result, the difference between countries, which is created by being late for industrial revolutions built on commodity/matter, can be closed with educational technology revolutions built on knowledge and creativity on the way to Society 5.0 and Metaverse. In the new process, the most important tasks in educational organizations fall on instructional-technology leaders. In this respect, educational institutions should be proactively ready for change, together with “students who produce and consume the system”.