Higher education and metaverse, a systematic review in progress

Abstract

Considering that the metaverse, more than a trend, has become a social experience, that also offers the opportunity to adapt to educational contexts, its development is a challenge for higher education, where universities must prepare the academic community for its implementation. We intend to take as a starting point for this process a systematic review, which allows us to obtain a broad overview of the existing scientific literature about the keywords, by establishing a search formula and criteria for the inclusion and exclusion of sources, based on their relevance to address the problem question. Following the PICOC method, a preliminary analysis of the data collected is carried out to identify the conceptual field associated with the research topic, without reaching the in-depth analysis of the studies collected, which constitutes a stage to be developed later in the determination of the characteristic and technical elements to be considered for the incorporation of the metaverse in the academic processes.