This fall, KU School of Nursing was one of the first 10 institutions of higher education, and the sole nursing school, that launched their VR “Metaversity” through Meta’s Immersive Learning project. (Meta is Facebook’s new corporate name.) Also described as digital twin campuses, these metaversities are part of Meta’s $150 million endeavor to increase access to education and change the way people learn. “Instead of spending three hours listening to a lecture on the respiratory system, you could listen to a shorter lecture and then spend 30 minutes of VR inside the body,” said Kesa Herlihy, Ph.D., clinical associate professor and director of the Simulation Education Program at KU School of Nursing. “It’s a totally different method of instruction. We have the potential to revolutionize nursing education.”
