Muhsinah Morris, virtual reality program manager for Morehouse College, calls the metaverse ‘the world’s greatest playground’
Morehouse College, Atlanta’s historically Black college, becomes the first college to use metaverse for education purposes. Moreover, according to a news report published on WSB TV, “The metaverse is not just for video games but education.”
Muhsinah Morris, Ph.D., virtual reality program manager for Morehouse College, calls the metaverse ‘the world’s greatest playground’.
He states: The metaverse is what I call the world’s greatest playground. But besides that, what it really is, is the next iteration of the web.
Furthermore, while explaining more about the versatility of the metaverse, Morris says that once you are inside the metaverse, there is no limit to what you can see and experience. Additionally, he supplements his aforementioned statement by adding that if you wanted to climb a mountain, you could do that.
Morris compared the differences between getting knowledge from reading a book against experiencing everything happening in real-time in the metaverse.
We can give that to our students. And it’s such a gift because we had to read encyclopaedias, right? And that information was stagnant. This is happening in real-time in three dimensions, he said.
Reflecting on the advantages of learning in the metaverse Morris iterates ‘instead of reading about what it was like on a slave ship heading to America, the metaverse can put you on board.’
Subsequently, students, Tahj Henry Jackson, and Sid King said learning in the metaverse was a whole new different experience. Jackson, in particular, says it is a whole new experience meeting and experiencing things first-hand, such as the Underground Railroad.
Finally, Morris points out that as many businesses are venturing out into the metaverse, the more knowledge that the students gain, the better it will be for them in the future.
