Integrative Narratology and Its Application in AI-based Virtual Education System

Narratology is a scientific study of narrative. The primary functions of narrative are make sense of life and make present life experience. Narrative has permeated our lives since ancient times as powerful tools to express and communicate human thoughts, emotions, creativity and for understanding the world. The pervasive nature of narrative extends beyond personal experiences. It has the potential to enhance quality of life, foster social progress, and human civilization. The 21st century is an era of digital narrative. Narrative form and structure have undergone tremendous changes. Most of the narrative theories of the 20th century are no longer applicable. To integrate the diverse range of narratives types in the 21st century and seamlessly fuse them with artificial intelligence (AI) and the metaverse technologies, this paper announces a bland new narrative discipline named “Integrative Narratology”. To develop this new discipline, this article proposes an integrated narrative conceptual framework and construct an integrated narrative system(INS) based on this framework. In addition to describing this framework, its theoretical foundations, core technologies and INS, this article also briefly introduces the method of AI automatic story generation, as well as how to use INS to automatically generate stories. How can we teach students to learn how to adapt to the social change caused by the rapid advancement of AI and metaverse technologies? Policy innovation and education reform are urgent tasks. Therefore, this article proposes an AI-based virtual education system based on INS for innovation in education technology. The evolution of AI technology, its application in metaverse, and the metaverse technologies applicable to this education system are described. The development of this virtual education system and its learning models are illustrated. Finally, the modern AI apocalypse and the conclusion are summarized.