For the first time, you can take a Black History course inside the metaverse.
Morehouse College Professor
"It's a total different experience than just sitting in a classroom lecture or on Zoom," Hamilton told Axios.The Virtual Reality Project's manager and Morehouse professor, Muhsinah Morris told Axios the college was the first in the country to pursue a "metaversity" model.VR at Morehouse began in the fall of 2020, Morris says, as the school was "looking for ways to engage our remote students. The primary goal was to make sure they did not drop out of school.
He said as a professor it gives him "more tools to work with....You're cheating yourself right now if you don't use the metaverse [to teach]."Evan Young, a sophomore in Hamilton's Black history course said experiencing things like a slave ship in virtual reality is "transformational. As an African American man it was a little hard to take, but it was necessary at the same time.
"It's not that we gamify instruction," Morris said. "It's that we've learned to turn our 2-dimensional lesson plans into 3-dimensional experiences for our students."
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