Metaverse education to assist Japanese metropolis fight rising absenteeism

The Japanese metropolis of Toda, Saitama, adopted a metaverse-schooling service to encourage college students — particularly these staying far-off from college — to attend their lessons. 

The metaverse education service opted for by town of Toda permits college students to discover the campus and examine in digital lecture rooms. Nevertheless, the scholars should get approval from respective college principals for attendance by way of metaverse education, confirms native media NHK.

Authorities information showed that 244,940 Japanese elementary and junior highschool college students have been absent for not less than 30 days in FY 2021. NHK’s report highlighted a fifth grader’s curiosity in chatting on-line as a substitute of attending college in particular person. Whereas the kid has not bodily attended college in over two years, they shared an curiosity in assembly up with buddies to play out of doors video games, akin to tag.

Whereas ongoing efforts to enhance college attendance stay a problem, Japanese officers are putting their bets on metaverse education to assist college students join with the individuals round them.

Sugimori Masayuki, the top of Toda’s schooling heart, hopes to see metaverse college students develop up and finally dwell independently in society.

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The town of Fukuoka introduced a collaboration with Astar Japan Labs because it strives to develop into the Web3 hub of Japan.

The mayor of Fukuoka, Soichiro Takashima, confirmed town’s aspirations to steer the Web3 drive, as he said:

“We have to do in the context of Web3 what large companies did for the world when Japan was strong.”

Astar Community founder Sota Watanabe revealed his intentions to “work closely with Fukuoka City to attract more developers and more entrepreneurs.”