Nanjing University to Train Metaverse Workers

Around the world, more colleges and universities are incorporating the metaverse into their curricula. In its most recent metaverse effort, Nanjing University in eastern China will introduce one of the nation’s first majors in the metaverse.

In order to incorporate more metaverse-related courses into the institution, the Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology is renaming one of its major departments, the Information Engineering Department, to the “Metaverse Engineering Department.” Sources claim that this department may be the first in China to use the term “metaverse.”

The metaverse is being used by other universities as a tool to help students connect and integrate. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology stated in July that it was building Metahkust, an online campus in the metaverse that would enable distant students to attend classes with one another as if they were in the same location. According to university staff, this would produce better results than using 2D video apps (like Zoom) for the same strategy.

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