Abstrakt
The future presents us with a multitude of challenges and opportunities, among which the advancement of the internet and artificial intelligence plays a significant role. This development is driving the digital transformation of numerous sectors of the economy, including education. These changes extend well beyond the implementation of basic tools, such as Learning Management Systems (e.g., Moodle) or platforms for synchronous instruction (e.g., MS Teams, Google Classroom). The current evolution of education is shifting towards migrating the entire university infrastructure into virtual reality environments, managed by advanced artificial intelligence systems, which allow for participation in the educational process through means such as avatars. The aim of this article is to analyse the conditions, barriers, and possible trajectories of the transformation of higher education institutions towards the metaversity model. The following sections discuss the concept of the metaversity and its theoretical foundations, the current regulatory framework and its constraining impact on the implementation of hybrid and virtual models, as well as the characteristics – or, more precisely, the functionalities – of an effective metaversity model.
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