Recently, the second batch of major application scenarios of the metaverse in Shanghai was announcedThe "Open Learning Metaverse" project declared by Shanghai Open University was selected for the education trackThrough the integration of 5G metaverse technology, the construction of borderless, full-scene, and immersive teaching has moved towards a new stage of seamless integration of virtual and real, greatly improving learning satisfaction, and building a new ecology of smart education.
Subvert the current traditional education model
The metaverse is an immersive interconnected space where the digital and physical worlds are integrated, and it is a future industry that integrates the innovation and application of a new generation of information technology, which is expected to lead the development of the next-generation Internet and support the construction of a modern industrial system through the mutual promotion of virtual and real. Therefore, the application of metaverse technology is likely to completely disrupt the current education model.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, and the State Administration of Radio and Television jointly issued the "Three-Year Action Plan for the Innovation and Development of the Metaverse Industry (2023-2025)", which pointed out that the construction of virtual classrooms, virtual laboratories and other educational and teaching environments will be promoted, and the sharing of virtual experimental training resources through the platform will be encouraged to expand the coverage of high-quality educational resources.
Shanghai Open University is supported by modern information technology, with distance and open education as the main form, mainly to provide academic education, non-academic education and community educationIt is an important bearer of the construction of a learning society and a lifelong education system in Shanghai。At the Open Education and Lifelong Learning Forum of the 2022 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Shanghai Open University released the "Smart Learning Center Metaverse" for the first time, preliminarily building a 5G+ Metaverse twin learning environment of Shanghai Open University, with 13 system branches and nearly 150 teachers participating in the practical application of the metaverse teaching application environment from multiple angles, covering various application scenarios such as course training, live teaching, and teacher digital ability training.
Innovatively launched by Shanghai Open University".Build a 5G metaverse learning environment for the Open University to create a hybrid flexible and immersive learning experienceThe practical projects have been repeatedly affirmed by the industry, and have won many awards such as the TOP20 of the "2022 Digital Economy Billboard" Metaverse Ocean Award (Golden Ocean Award), the first prize in the final of the Shanghai Regional Competition of the 6th "Blooming Cup" 5G Application Collection Competition, and the silver award of the 2023 Shanghai University Informatization Construction and Application Outstanding Case.
Build borderless, full-scene, immersive teaching
It is understood that based on the existing metaverse application construction, the goal of the major application scenario of the "open learning metaverse" declared this time is to build borderless, full-scene, and immersive teaching through 5G integration metaverse technology based on the physical smart learning center of Shanghai Open University, and move towards a new stage of seamless integration of virtual and real through 5G integration of metaverse technology, and greatly improve learning satisfaction. BuildThere are three teaching scenarios of Metaverse live teaching, Metaverse interactive teaching, and Metaverse real teaching
In the metaverse live teaching scenario, learners can directly learn content in an immersive and multi-way way to get a more vivid and realistic learning experience. The interactive teaching scene of the metaverse realizes the teaching interaction and social communication between people in the virtual learning space, so that learners can socialize and learn "face-to-face" in the virtual learning space, as if they have come to the school, and at the same time, according to the teaching needs, it provides more digital twin campus real scenes, smart teaching spaces, various professional teaching practice training rooms, lecture halls that support large concurrent capacity and other rich teaching activity spaces and student activity social spaces.
In addition, in the metaverse full-reality teaching scenario, it can also be linked with the physical smart learning center to achieve a smooth connection between offline and online teaching, and increase learning flexibility. "After the successful creation of the metaverse live interactive teaching, it can be extended to the provincial and municipal branches of the Open University across the country, as well as various universities and vocational colleges across the countryProvide replicable metaverse teaching application templates suitable for different school stagesto create various virtual learning scenarios and teaching spaces to provide more immersive, rich, panoramic and interesting learning experiences for education and teaching. The person in charge of the relevant project of Shanghai Open University said.
According to the relevant person in charge, this year, Shanghai Open University will set up an informatization construction and research team, integrate resources inside and outside the university, cooperate with well-known enterprises and research institutions, jointly explore the innovative scenarios of metaverse technology in the field of open education, and carry out demonstration applications of a certain scale to provide strong support for the construction of a new ecology of smart education. It is also expected that this demonstration application project will be completed within this year, promoting learners' independent learning ability and teachers' ability to deeply integrate information technology and teaching, and forming an innovative teaching application model for large-scale open education in the metaverse live interactive teaching that can be replicated and promoted.
*: Yangpu, Shanghai.