A Study on the Metaverse-Based Environments for Future Vocational Education

The prolonged COVID-19 pandemic has changed offline-oriented education by increasingly employing online methods. Although in the early days, the metaverse was operated to be used as a one-time event rather than for education, it is now gaining attention as a new virtual learning space that interacts with reality. In this study, the metaverse platform Poly Meta and content use cases built by Korea Polytechnics were analyzed. Based on this, we intend to go beyond the usage of the metaverse in general education and further develop metaverse environmental requirements and content in a direction necessary for vocational education. In future research, quantitative and qualitative analysis will be performed on the metaverse platform’s usability and accessibility and on the effect of applying it to vocational education and training