Metaverse
Learning Beyond Boundaries
Creating immersive, interactive learning environments that connect learners, educators, and disciplines to enhance simulation, collaboration, and experiential learning in health professions education.
About
The Metaverse provides immersive and interactive virtual environments that extend learning beyond traditional classrooms and clinical settings. Within health professions education, it can support simulation, experiential learning, visualization, collaboration, and interprofessional education in engaging digital environments.
At SIDC, Metaverse-supported learning is used purposefully and where educationally appropriate, complementing existing simulation, clinical skills, and teaching approaches. These environments provide opportunities for learners and educators to interact, collaborate, practice, and explore complex healthcare scenarios while supporting innovation in teaching and learning.
Through responsible integration and ongoing evaluation, SIDC seeks to explore the potential of immersive technologies to enhance learner engagement, accessibility, collaboration, and educational outcomes.
Strategic Objectives
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Advance Immersive & Experiential Learning
Integrate Metaverse-supported and immersive learning experiences where they add meaningful educational value, supporting simulation, visualization, clinical reasoning, communication, and decision-making.
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Strengthen Collaboration & Interprofessional Learning
Connect learners, educators, and health professions through shared virtual environments that promote teamwork, communication, role understanding, and collaborative learning.
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Support Innovative Teaching & Faculty Capability
Enable faculty to design, facilitate, and evaluate immersive and technology-enhanced learning experiences, while developing faculty and learner capabilities for effective use of emerging technologies.
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Expand Access, Engagement & Interaction
Create flexible and interactive learning opportunities that enhance participation, engagement, visualization, collaboration, and experiential learning across educational settings.
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Promote Responsible & Inclusive Innovation
Apply immersive technologies responsibly, with attention to ethics, privacy, accessibility, inclusivity, digital professionalism, and appropriate educational use.
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Evaluate Impact & Drive Continuous Improvement
Use learner feedback, educational outcomes, research, and evaluation to assess effectiveness, inform improvement, and guide the future development of Metaverse-supported education.
Strategic Focus Areas
Activities
The list of Metaverse activities will be updated soon.
Metaverse at a Glance
Resources
Resources for Metaverse will be updated soon.
Media
The photo gallery, in-action videos and testimonials for Metaverse will be updated soon. Photographs of SIDC activities are in the SIDC photo gallery.