Major tech companies are starting on their land grab claim to the metaverse. People who follow the higher ed news outlets might have seen this topic cropping up in publications over the last few months, too. What is the metaverse? Why is it such a big deal (or is it)? And will it matter to higher ed beyond its novelty? Ray Schroeder, Senior Fellow at both University of Illinois Springfield and UPCEA, returns to the Enrollment Growth University show to remind us of higher ed’s previous toe-dips into the metaverse back in the early 2000s and how institutions might start positioning themselves for the metaverse future that so many tech companies seem bent on bringing us to.
