Effectiveness of metaverse in accelerating higher education

The emergence of the metaverse represents a significant shift in understanding and interaction with digital environments. The Metaverse can potentially disrupt the education system by offering immersive and interactive virtual learning environments across geographical boundaries. Emerging technologies have covered the way for global learning and teaching methods through innovative pedagogy. This research investigates the transformative potential of integrating the Metaverse into higher education to achieve the desired learning outcomes and accessibility. It explicitly emphasizes various technologies like Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Digital Twins and their significant applications in higher education. While these digital resources have numerous benefits, they also have many technical and infrastructural limitations in integrating the existing curricula into a digital environment. A higher education system that is more agile and digitally robust is better equipped to face and traverse disruptive occurrences. Hence, it is the need of the hour for education systems to adopt this technology to retain their prolonged existence and accessibility. The research further explores how the Metaverse can enrich learning experiences, promote collaboration and inclusivity, and meet the evolving requirements of educational learners. These learners are the key stakeholders, as their development of competencies is essential for effectively addressing challenges and creating value through problem-solving.