Work-in-Progress—Student’s Co-creation of Collaborative Learning Spaces on the Metaverse

Abstract

This work-in-progress paper reports on a project aimed at empowering learners through the co-creation of virtual collaborative learning spaces within the metaverse, an innovative approach where learners and educators collaborate to design immersive virtual environments tailored to their unique needs and goals. Six students, at various levels of their undergraduate engineering studies,
are tasked with designing and developing virtual spaces to support student teams in collaborating on their creative engineering group projects. Through the different design propositions and peer feedback received, we gain insights into how students perceive and conceptualise teamwork dynamics in virtual collaborative spaces. The design propositions also illustrate diverse approaches to spatial organisation within the virtual environment.