The Metaverse Team of Universitas Teknokrat Indonesia (UTI) launched the Metaschool of Al Kautsar High School in Bandar Lampung on Thursday, August 22, 2024, in the meeting room of the Al Kautsar Foundation Office.
Al Kautsar High School is the first school in Indonesia that will implement virtual learning via metaverse.
The launch of Al Kautsar High School Metaschool was attended by UTI Vice Rector Dr. H. Mahathir Muhammad, SE, MM, UTI Vice Rector for Academic Affairs Achmad Yudi Wahyudin, M.Pd, UTI Vice Rector for Cooperation and General Affairs Dr. Ryan Randy Suryono, M.Kom, and UTI Metaverse lecturer Yuri Rahmanto, M.Kom, along with seven students of the Informatics S-1 Study Program.
From Al Kautsar, the Chairman of Al Kautsar Foundation Wagiso, SE, MM, Head of Al Kautsar High School Eko Anzair, M.Si., along with the teachers, and representatives of Al Kautsar High School students were present.
In his speech, dR. Mahathir said that the making of the Al Kautsar High School Metaschool was a research and community service activity carried out by a team of UTI lecturers and students.
UTI itself has implemented the lecture process and thesis examination via metaverse. UTI students are required to attend lectures via metaverse three times, and make transactions using bitcoin.
“We are very welcome to develop this metaverse further. If there are competitions to make game applications or animations at the national level, we are also ready to provide guidance,” said Dr. Mahathir.
Al Kautsar Foundation Chairman Wagiso thanked UTI for appointing Al Kautsar High School as the first school to use metaverse technology through the Metaschool platform. He recognized UTI’s excellence in the field of information and communication technology. UTI has been a regular winner of national and even international robotics competitions.
“We want to learn from Teknokrat about this information and communication technology. Because, Al Kautsar continues to improve from manual to modern by utilizing information technology,” he said.
