Dynamic Classes Using Online Video Conference Platforms
[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] Dongmyung University is attracting attention by introducing lectures using the metaverse for the first time.
Busan Dongmyung University announced on the 6th that it will apply metaverse-style lectures starting in September in the 'Design Presentation' capstone course of the Department of Visual Design.
Department head Jeong Won-jun and the faculty of the Department of Visual Design have been preparing for metaverse classes for three months for this course.
Gather Town is an online video conferencing platform similar to Zoom or Google Meet, created by the American startup 'Gather.'
When applied to classes, avatars are added to the basic functions of Google Meet and Zoom, enabling dynamic lectures.
Students' real appearances can be seen during class, allowing for learning and feedback.
Dongmyung University introduced that this method is currently being used in monthly meetings of Goyang City Youth Foundation, award ceremonies for company-hosted contests, education-related academic conferences, construction company recruitment briefings, and banking sectors.
Senior students in this department have been holding regular meetings and planning events using metaverse environment platforms since last summer vacation to carry out their graduation exhibition in the metaverse style.
They are also learning to use another online platform, 'Behance,' for individual work management.
The Department of Visual Design at Dongmyung University had already adapted in advance by setting the concept of 'changing the exhibition environment, which could have been shrunk due to COVID-19 in 2020, through design' before the metaverse-style classes this year.
They conducted real-time work activities and classes using the online platform 'Miro+Zoom' and promoted exhibitions using Spark AR.
Professor Won Jong-yoon of the Department of Visual Design said, “As online classes became prolonged and tedious due to the long-term COVID-19 situation, we attempted to overcome the drawbacks and increase student immersion by trying a more evolved online-offline two-track graduation exhibition and classes in 2021 following 2020.”
The metaverse is a compound word of 'meta,' meaning virtual and transcendence, and 'universe,' meaning cosmos, referring to an online space that goes beyond virtual reality to include social and economic activities.
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