Promoting the digitization of online education is an important task for the development of modern education. The meta-universe is a digital space parallel to the real world, and it is a collection of many high technologies, which can provide the theoretical basis of embodied cognition, distributed cognition and immersive cognition for online education. The meta-universe enabling online education can expand the learning boundary of online education, deepen the learning experience of online education, and construct multi-dimensional teaching evaluation and other educational practice fields. Promoting the research and development of meta-universe education technology, building the rational framework of meta-universe education, forming the ethical concept of meta-universe education and other approaches provide practical paths for meta-universe enabling online education.

Shuo Zhang, Yuan Wang. Metaverse: The future field of online education. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2023) Vol. 6, Issue 21: 18-24. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2023.062104.

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