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Seamless learning focuses on sustaining learning experiences in various dimensions. Seamless learning comprises learning experiences including individual and social learning in virtual worlds as well as physical world in formal or informal education processes. This study aimed to examine seamless learning based on the phenomenon of metaverse. It is important to know what Metaverse means for seamless learning as a learning tool. Therefore, in this study, four randomly selected metaverse environments were examined based on the principles of seamless learning. This study tried to answer the questions of to what extent metaverse environments meet the ten principles of seamless learning, and whether these environments can be used as a seamless learning tool. The findings revealed that the randomly selected Second Life, Minecraft, Spatial.io and Roblox metaverse environments largely met the principles of seamless learning. In addition, the ten principles of seamless learning were reconsidered in the context of the metaverse. Since the sixth principle of seamless learning, the principle of covering physical and virtual worlds, is a fundamental feature of the metaverse, this criterion does not need to be sought in seamless learning studies using metaverse. Similarly, the seventh principle of seamless learning requires the use of multiple devices which is also a feature of metaverse environments. Thus this principle may be ignored in continuous learning studies using metaverse as well. As a result, the principles of seamless learning were revised in the context of metaverse and reduced to eight principles.
