AI-Generated Content (AIGC) and Metaverse-Empowered Geography Education: Practical Exploration of an Immersive Scenario and Intelligent Tutoring Collaborative Teaching Model
Received date: 2025-07-22
Revised date: 2025-11-04
Online published: 2025-12-28
Traditional geography teaching has long faced core challenges, such as difficulties in visualizing abstract concepts and the limitations of high-risk or high-cost practical activities. Although AI-generated content (AIGC) and metaverse technologies have individually shown educational potential, existing research is largely confined to single-technology applications. There is a lack of a cross-technology synergistic framework tailored to the three-dimensional attributes of geography ("spatial-temporal-process"), resulting in insufficient adaptation between technology and pedagogical needs. To address this gap, this study aimed to construct a novel geography teaching model synergistically empowered by "AIGC + Metaverse". Through empirical research, it sought to validate the effectiveness of the proposed model in enhancing students' core competencies, thereby providing a verified and systematic solution to overcome traditional teaching dilemmas an."d promote the intelligent transformation of geography education. This study developed a closed-loop teaching model consisting of "Scenario Immersion—Intelligent Guidance—Assessment Optimization". The model employed metaverse technology to create high-fidelity immersive geography scenarios (e.g., a digital twin environment of a dangerous rock mass), while leveraging AIGC to build an intelligent tutoring system that supported personalized guidance, intelligent Q&A, and formative assessment. Deep integration was achieved through data and pedagogical process synergy mechanisms. To validate the model's effectiveness, a quasi-experimental study was conducted over two academic years using the "Spatial Information Collection and Risk Assessment of Dangerous Rock Mass" experiment as a case study. A multidimensional dataset, including experimental scores, learning behavior data, and system logs, was collected to comprehensively compare outcomes between a traditional teaching group and an "AIGC + Metaverse" synergistic group. The empirical results demonstrated that the "AIGC + Metaverse" synergistic teaching model achieved significant improvements over the traditional model. In terms of practical operation ability, students' average scores in operational standardization and data completeness both increased by 12.5%. Improvements in spatial analysis ability were particularly prominent, with the average score for measurement accuracy increasing by 28.57% and the average score for analytical logic by 14.29%. Regarding innovative application ability, the average score for the quality of risk assessment reports rose by 28.57%, and the average score for thinking questions by 14.29%. Ultimately, the average score for comprehensive task ability improved by 11.25%. The study concluded that this synergistic model, by combining immersive metaverse scenarios with the intelligent AIGC feedback, effectively resolved the core contradictions of traditional geography teaching. It facilitated a shift in students' roles from passive recipients of knowledge to active explorers of capability, thereby achieving a fundamental paradigm shift from "knowledge transmission" to "capability empowerment." The contributions of this study are threefold. First, it offers theoretical innovation by constructing and validating a synergistic teaching framework integrating AIGC-generated content, metaverse-hosted scenarios, and real-time AI tutor interaction, thus filling the gap in existing research on cross-technology synergy and discipline-specific adaptation. Second, it provides a practical paradigm by delivering a replicable, scalable, and systematic teaching solution, serving as a concrete example for geography education reform. Third, it contributes to domain expansion by exploring a viable path for the deep integration of advanced intelligent technologies with subject teaching in the context of educational digitalization, offering theoretical references and practical insights for innovative teaching in related disciplines.
Key words: geography teaching; AI-generated content; Metaverse; collaboration; teaching mode
Zhaoxiong Liang , Hongyi Zhou , Xizhi Wang , Dan Xu . AI-Generated Content (AIGC) and Metaverse-Empowered Geography Education: Practical Exploration of an Immersive Scenario and Intelligent Tutoring Collaborative Teaching Model[J]. Tropical Geography, 2026 , 46(1) : 190 -199 . DOI: 10.13284/j.cnki.rddl.20250493
表1 地理学教学元宇宙+AI应用案例集Table 1 Application case collection of Metaverse and AI in geography teaching |
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表2 新旧教学模式实验流程对比Table 2 Comparison of experimental processes between new and old teaching models |
| 教学环节 | 传统教学模式 | “AIGC+元宇宙”协同模式 |
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| 知识输入 | 教师课堂讲授危岩体成因、监测技术规范,展示2D遥感影像和地质剖面图。 | 学生虚拟场景中沉浸式漫游危岩体数字孪生场景,AIGC助教实时讲解地质构造与风险点。 |
| 技能训练 | 根据实验指导书,分析教师给定的现成点云数据,撰写分析报告。整个过程不涉及数据采集环节,学生无法体验数据 获取的全流程。 | 学生在虚拟环境中模拟无人机操控,自主规划航线。AIGC 助教实时推荐最优参数(航高100 m±5%,重叠率70%),并 即时纠正操作偏差。 |
| 数据分析 | 学生使用模拟数据操作,重点在于软件操作流程。教学为 一对多模式,学生遇到问题无法得到及时反馈。 | 学生采集的虚拟数据可导出,并可通过软件构建三维模型。AIGC助教精准识别误差来源(如“航线偏差导致点云密度 降低15%”),并生成个性化改进方案。 |
| 成果评估 | 提交书面报告,教师依据报告逻辑性和结论准确性评分。 反馈周期长,批改效率低,且难以针对每位学生的具体问题提供个性化辅导。 | 提交含三维模型、动态模拟与分析图表的综合报告,系统从 “数据完整性、测量精度、风险评估逻辑”三维度自动生成初步评价,教师复核。 |
表3 新旧教学模式下学生实验成绩与能力表现对比Table 3 Comparison of students' experiment scores and ability performance between traditional and new teaching modes |
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梁钊雄:负责选题设计、文献资料的搜集与分析、论文初稿的撰写、数据处理及图表绘制;
周红艺:负责论文关键科学问题的指导、退修阶段核心数据的复核与深度分析、指导论文讨论部分的重构与优化;
王兮之:负责部分实地调研工作、基础数据的收集与整理、实验/计算过程的辅助操作;
徐 丹:参与文献调研、论文格式的规范化校对、部分图表的初步处理。
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