The University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business introduced Tuesday that its Aresty Institute of Executive Education will launch a certificate program titled “Business in the Metaverse Economy.” The six-week course shall be taught online with a heavy dose of immersion.
Wharton, certainly one of the world’s main business faculties, teamed up with consulting agency Prysm Group to design the course, which is able to embody greater than 50 lectures by college and trade representatives, in addition to six case research. Guest audio system will come from Adobe, Animoca Brands, R/GA, RLY Network, Second Life, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, amongst different organizations.
The program’s educational director, Prof. Kevin Werbach, mentioned in a press release:
“The metaverse is a significant and broad phenomenon that is still poorly understood. We hope to equip business leaders, consultants, and entrepreneurs with an understanding of the impending opportunities the metaverse brings.”
The first cohort of scholars will start Sept. 12 and shall be anticipated to spend 8-10 hours every week on their research, at a value of $4,500. The college will settle for fee in crypto, because it did final 12 months for its online course“Economics of Blockchain and Digital Assets,” which additionally ran for six weeks and value $4,500. Wharton additionally operates the Stevens Center Blockchain Laboratory and gives a free introductory course on crypto and blockchain on the web site Coursera.
The University of Pennsylvania accepts donations in crypto as properly, with a $10,000 minimal. Wharton acquired a $5 million donation in crypto in 2021, which it instantly transformed into fiat. The Bitcoin (BTC) reward can be price considerably lower than $2.5 million in the present day.
According to Wharton, the metaverse shall be a $13 trillion market with 5 billion customers by 2030. Wharton claimed to be the first Ivy League college to supply a course on the Metaverse.
