Metaverse-Based Teaching Technology to Develop the Neuroplasticity for Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Pedagogical Framework

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a series of developmental disabilities/disorders that are caused by differences in the human brain. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there is no such kind of medicine available that can cure autism at a glance. Children with autism lack social communication and have repetitive behaviors. They also have abnormalities in social communication. Further, its population is also increasing day by day. It is necessary to develop special innovative pedagogical teaching technologies for social communication skills using multimedia technologies for children with ASD. Education has its importance in developing the social, learning, and communication skills of ASD children. Besides, children with ASD are found to be like multimedia systems, music-enabled systems, interactive multimedia systems, etc. The primary objective of this study is to design an innovative pedagogical learning framework for the metaverse technology-enabled system, which collects the brain activity for every session of learning via a wearable device while learning and evaluates the emotional changes throughout the process. The methodology will make use of a metaverse-based learning pedagogical environment with various factors like Auditory Motor Mapping Training (AMMT), polysensory environment, cognitive information, and social communication. It will categorize the intended participants into different groups. Each of the students from the individual group will be assessed. The wearable devices have the functionalities of both acquiring the activities of the metaverse and the brain and eye-gaze movement activities. After a while, it also analyzes the neuroplasticity. Various factors are mapped to the system. According to the theory of brain/neuroplasticity, the thinking-learning-acting changes both the brain’s physical structure and functional organization. It proposes an advanced metaverse-based teaching-learning technology that has a direct impact on the development of neuroplasticity. If it increases for the ASDs then hopefully, they will be normal as well.