Machine Learning for Educational Metaverse: How Far Are We?

The concept of metaverse is becoming pervasive and promises to revolutionize the way people will interact with each other in a sustainable manner. The educational context seems to represent an ideal use case, as the metaverse may provide a digital environment empowered by analytical instruments able to monitor the social and psychological needs of students, other than lowering the entry barriers of students with disabilities. Machine learning will represent a key component of such a new consumer technology, yet little is known about its adoption within an educational metaverse. This paper overviews the current state of the art and provides a discussion about its suitability, in an effort of highlighting future research avenues and challenges.