Higher education in the United States is in trouble. Spiraling tuition costs and a student debt crisis threaten to make college unaffordable to all but the wealthy. In an attempt to cut spending and ...

A student wears virtual reality goggles and headphones as part of a digital learning experience. Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images Some classes are already happening in the metaverse.

ATLANTA — One of Atlanta’s historically Black colleges is turning things around when it comes to learning in the metaverse. The metaverse is a computerized, three-dimensional, virtual world. If you’re ...

(The Conversation) — More and more colleges are becoming “metaversities,” taking their physical campuses into a virtual online world, often called the “metaverse.” One initiative has 10 U.S.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Nir Kshetri, University of North Carolina – Greensboro (THE CONVERSATION) More and ...

“Metaversities” are a thing. This form of virtual learning can offer plenty of benefits, this academic writes, but also brings significant costs, data privacy concerns and other considerations. A ...