Application of the Metaverse in Education

這本書涵蓋了有關教育中的元宇宙的有趣主題。它將元宇宙介紹為教育的新前沿，並闡明了關於元宇宙教育的廣泛觀點。它還通過展示有前景的沉浸式環境示例，突出了元宇宙世界的設計。因此，這本書對於學生、研究人員、教育者、教學設計師、學校管理人員和教育技術專家等各方利益相關者都具有興趣。

這本書展示了研究努力和最佳實踐，將沉浸式數字體驗與教學景觀相結合。它探索了元宇宙對教育實踐的開創性影響。

各章節聚焦並回答了研究人員和教育者如何應用元宇宙應用於教育、採用元宇宙在教育中的挑戰是什麼，以及促進元宇宙在教育中的未來機遇是什麼等問題。

Dr. Dejian Liu is Senior Engineer, graduated from the University of Kansas, the United States of America, and received a Ph.D. degree from Beijing Normal University, China, in 2020. Currently working as Chairman and Executive Director at NetDragon Websoft. He also serves on the Board of Directors at Fujian TQ Digital Incorporation, on the Board at Baidu, and as Member of the Standing Committee at Fujian Science Association. As Vice Chairman of the Fujian Young Entrepreneur Association, he has received numerous awards, including Business Venture Hero award, Excellent Entrepreneur award, Youth Entrepreneurship Achievement award, and Science and Technology for Young People award.

Dr. Ronghuai Huang is Professor in the Faculty of Education of Beijing Normal University (BNU), China. He has been engaged in research on smart learning environment, artificial intelligence in education, educational technology as well as knowledge engineering. He received the 'Chang Jiang Scholar' award in 2016, which is the highest academic award presented to an individual in higher education by the Ministry of Education of China. He serves as Co-dean of the Smart Learning Institute, Director of UNESCO International Rural Educational and Training Center, and Director of China National Engineering Lab for Cyberlearning Intelligent Technology. He is also President of The Global Chinese Society for Computers in Education, Vice President of International Association of Smart Learning Environments, and Editor-in-Chief of Springer's journal of Smart Learning Environments and Journal of Computers in Education. To date, he has accomplished/is working on over 100 projects, and his ideas have been widely spread, with about 400 academic papers and over 40 books published at home and aboard.

Dr. Ahmed Hosny Saleh Metwally is a postdoctoral researcher at Beijing Normal University, China, and a visiting scholar at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He obtained his Ph.D. in Educational Technology from Northeast Normal University, China. He has been working on different research areas in Technology-Enhanced Learning, including gamification, instructional design, metaverse, human-computer interaction, and artificial intelligence (AI). He serves as the managing editor of the IEEE Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Learning Technology (TCLC), and an editorial board member of Educational Technology & Society Journal. He is a member of SLIBNU-ALECSO Joint Lab (jointly found between the Smart Learning Institute Beijing Normal University and The Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO)). He has been hosting the international webinar series 'Metaverse in Education' curated by the Smart Learning Institute of Beijing Normal University.

Dr. Ahmed Tlili is an associate professor at Beijing Normal University, China, and An-Najah National University, Palestine. He is also a visiting professor at the ResearchInstitute for Innovation and Technology in Education (UNIR iTED), Spain. He serves as the co-director of the Open Educational Resources (OER) Lab at the Smart Learning Institute of Beijing Normal University (SLIBNU), China. He is an editor of the Springer book series 'Future Education and Learning Spaces: ICT & Education in Uncertain Times'. He is also an associate editor of Smart Learning Environments, the IEEE Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Learning Technology, and the Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society.

Ms. Emma Fan Lin received her Master's degree of International Comparative Law from Indiana University in the United States of America, and a Bachelor degree from Huaqiao University in China. Her research interest mainly focuses on technology industry combined with education, digital education, metaverse, mixed realities, smart learning environment, teacher information and communications technology (ICT) competency development. She is responsible for the Strategic Department of NetDragon Websoft, which is deepening the combination of education with cutting-edge technologies such as 3D, metaverse, virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence. She is a co-project director and co-designer of UNESCO E-Library platform for teachers. The platform represents a hub of digital resources and provides training for global teachers, to boost teacher ICT competency development.

劉德健博士是一位高級工程師，畢業於美國堪薩斯大學，並於2020年在中國北京師範大學獲得博士學位。目前擔任網龍網絡有限公司的董事長和執行董事，同時還擔任福建天晴數碼股份有限公司的董事會成員、百度的董事會成員，以及福建省科學協會常務委員。作為福建省青年企業家協會的副主席，他獲得了許多獎項，包括商業創業英雄獎、優秀企業家獎、青年創業成就獎和青年科技獎。

黃榮淮博士是中國北京師範大學教育學院的教授。他一直從事智能學習環境、教育中的人工智能、教育技術以及知識工程的研究。他於2016年獲得了中國教育部頒發的最高學術獎項“長江學者”獎。他擔任智能學習研究所的聯合院長、聯合國教科文組織國際農村教育培訓中心主任，以及中國國家工程實驗室的主任。他還是全球華人計算機教育學會的主席、國際智能學習環境協會的副主席，以及Springer出版社的《智能學習環境》和《計算機教育學報》的主編。迄今為止，他已完成/正在進行100多個項目，他的想法廣泛傳播，發表了約400篇學術論文和40多本國內外出版的書籍。

Ahmed Hosny Saleh Metwally博士是中國北京師範大學的博士後研究員，也是加拿大滑鐵盧大學的訪問學者。他在中國東北師範大學獲得教育技術博士學位，並在技術增強學習的不同研究領域工作，包括遊戲化、教學設計、元宇宙、人機交互和人工智能。他擔任IEEE學習技術技術委員會（TCLC）的編輯主任，以及《教育技術與社會學報》的編輯委員會成員。他是SLIBNU-ALECSO聯合實驗室（由北京師範大學智能學習研究所和阿拉伯聯盟教育、文化和科學組織（ALECSO）共同創立）的成員。他一直主持由北京師範大學智能學習研究所策劃的國際網絡研討會系列“教育中的元宇宙”。

Ahmed Tlili博士是中國北京師範大學和巴勒斯坦安納賈國立大學的副教授，也是西班牙研究創新與教育技術研究所（UNIR iTED）的訪問教授。他擔任北京師範大學智能學習研究所（SLIBNU）開放教育資源（OER）實驗室的聯合主任。他是Springer出版社的《未來教育和學習空間：ICT與不確定時代的教育》系列的編輯，也是《智能學習環境》、IEEE學習技術技術委員會的通訊和《電子學習與知識社會學報》的副編輯。

范琳女士在美國印第安納大學獲得國際比較法碩士學位，並在中國華僑大學獲得學士學位。她的研究興趣主要集中在結合教育的技術行業、數字教育、元宇宙、混合現實、智能學習環境、教師信息和通信技術（ICT）能力發展。她負責戰略部門的工作。