With the Covid-19 pandemic, the integration of technologies emerging in the education sector continues to accelerate and inclusive measures and studies for the barriers to access to education increasingly continue today. Higher education institutions are expected to transform their educational resources at a global level in accordance with more accessible and digital infrastructure. At this point, the future of technologies will also be a transformative power in higher education institutions.

In this congress, which aims to bring together the current situation and infrastructure in the world of Metaverse, which is the new era of digitalization, with various disciplines and bring them together in the academic environment, the subject of “Educational Sciences Digital Transformation: Metaverse” will be discussed through future graduates, new job and employment opportunities, legal regulations and limitations.

The topics and target audience of the congress constitute a first on the basis of higher education. As a Research University, our University aims to see the structural and transformative power of future technologies that may occur in the higher education system from the framework of “Virtual projection”.

Research Universities and Other Universities, Public Institutions and Organizations.

Metaverse in Educational Sciences, Metaverse in Legal Context, Metaverse in Artistic Context, Metaverse in Social Sciences, Metaverse in Science, Informatics and Metaverse, Metaverse in STEAM Approach (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics). Systematic Approaches and Metaverse. Quality and Metaverse in Higher Education. Digital Transformation and Metaverse in Education. Cyber ​​Security, Higher Education and Metaverse, All Related Disciplines.

Congress sessions took place online. The information about the sessions was announced on June 7, 2022 (with Google Meet codes).

Congress Honorary President: Prof.Dr. Nükhet HOTAR- Rector of Dokuz Eylül University

Organizing Committee

President: Prof. Dr. Tuba GÜLTEKİN – Director of Dokuz Eylül University Institute of Educational Sciences

Assoc.Prof.Dr. Hadiye KÜÇÜKKARAGÖZ – Dokuz Eylül University Deputy Director of the Institute

Prof. Dr. Pınar SURAL ÖZER – Dokuz Eylul University

Prof. Dr. Brian CANFIELD USA Florida Atlantic University

Prof. Dr. Helen BAKKER Netherlands Utrecht University

Prof. Dr. Jolanda MACKOWICZ Poland Cracow University

Assos. Prof. Burim UKICI – Macedonia

Science and Referee Board

Prof. Dr. Tuba GÜLTEKİN Dokuz Eylül University

Prof. Dr. Asuman ALTAY Dokuz Eylul University

Prof. Dr. Pınar SURAL ÖZER Dokuz Eylul University

Assoc. Prof. Dr . Hadiye KÜÇÜKKARAGÖZ Dokuz Eylul University

Dr. Yurdagul KILIÇ DAYZ Dokuz Eylul University Institute of Educational Sciences

Prof. Dr. Fatih BAŞBUĞ Akdeniz University

Prof. Dr. Brian CANFIELD USA Florida Atlantic University

Prof. Dr. Suzan Duygu ERİŞTİ Anadolu University

Prof. Dr. Bahadır ERİŞTİ Anadolu University

Prof. Dr. Mehmet GÜLTEKİN Anadolu University

Dr. Ali Ulus KIMAV Anadolu University

Dr. Ahmet AYTAÇ Aydın Adnan Menderes University

Prof. Dr. Ercan KOCAYÖRÜK Çanakkale 18 Mart University

Prof. Dr. Bilgehan GÜLTEKİN Ege University

Prof. Dr. Elif YILDIZ Ege University

Prof. Dr. Mustafa Zafer BALBAĞ Eskisehir Osmangazi University

Prof. Dr. Selahattin GELBAL Hacettepe University

Prof. Dr. Helen BAKKER Netherlands Utrecht University

Muhammed Zaheer ASGHAR University of Helsinki Finland

Assoc. Prof. Mahmut REIS Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University

Prof. Dr. Sabri SİDEKLİ Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University

Assos. Prof. Burim UKICI – Macedonia

Prof. Dr. Selahattin AVŞAROĞLU Necmettin Erbakan University

Prof. Dr. Cevat Serdar KÜÇÜKKARAGÖZ University of Witwatersrand South Africa

Prof. Dr. Jolanda MACKOWICZ Poland Cracow University

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Suad SAKALLI GUMUS Saint Mary of the Woods College

Prof. Dr. Hakan UŞAKLI Sinop University

Assoc. Dr. Fatih KARAKUS Sivas Cumhuriyet University

Prof. Dr. Fuat TANHAN Van Yüzüncü Yıl University

Prof. Dr. Anton VENDEURSEN HAN University Holland