SimCollege: A Digital Game for Promoting the Ethical Framework of the Edu-Metaverse.

Education is considered one of the metaverse’s main application scenarios. Education based on the metaverse will greatly reduce the cost of education, realize equity of education, and promote the advantages of personalized education. However, with the construction of the Edu-Metaverse, ethical issues emerge one after another. Concerns include that players will gradually have a biased understanding of the social structure and dual roleplaying in interpersonal relationships; indulge in self-intoxication and ignore self-responsibility; and/or be indifferent to life and blindly worship power and money; a separate concern is the inadequate laws and regulations. This article summarizes the commonalities between the Edu-Metaverse and game design ethics, focusing on game ethics. A digital game, “SimCollege”, was designed that promotes the ethical framework of the Edu-Metaverse, and a questionnaire was administered to learn what a group of teachers and students considered the most relevant aspects of maintaining Edu-Metaverse ethics.