November 28th, 2025: iLRN llluminators' Forum, episode 1

iLRN Illuminators' Forum
the weekly scanning report of iLRN Immersive Futures' State of XR & Immersive Learning 2026 effort 

episode #1

Friday, November, 28th, 2025
2pm Pacific . 5pm Eastern . 10 pm London

Forum Host: Jonathon Richter
Special Guest: Daithí Ó Murchú, an International consultant and expert advisor in education, AI, sustainability citizenship, disruptive technologies. HC for Côte d'Ivoire to Ireland.

This inaugural session launches our weekly global scanning series for the 2026 iLRN State of XR & Immersive Learning report. Each week for the rest of the year and into the start of 2026, we convene researchers, designers, and practitioners who are actively observing developments across regions, sectors, and technologies. The goal is to build a shared and recent evidence base for understanding how immersive learning is evolving worldwide. In this first webinar, we will introduce the scanning framework, outline the workflows used across iLRN’s Regional Hubs and Geographic Chapters, and highlight early signals emerging from education, computer science, workforce development, cultural heritage, Indigenous-led XR, environmental applications, and medical education & healthcare. We will also welcome several of our most engaged community contributors—Regional Hub leaders, Chapter stewards, and active members of our Discord scanning channels—to discuss what they are seeing in their local contexts and how they approach environmental scanning as a practice. The session is designed to be conversational, method-focused, and open to observers who want to understand how the iLRN community co-creates the annual State of XR report. Attendees will gain clarity on how to participate, where scanning takes place, and how individual contributions feed into the 2026 global findings. Join us!

Free Registration LINK: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dBc8D0zfSzGX1rwegtguNg

This week on iLRN Illuminators' Forum, we're featuring a few of our findings on computer science and game design journal articles that were published during the Year 2025 with an opportunity to drop your own pub(lication) reference links if you published in 2025 - to be lightly curated by our iLRN volunteers and highlighted in the show's links HERE on this iLRN Codex page! 

We also have a Special Guest on the Illuminators' Forum, Daithí Ó Murchú, an International consultant and expert advisor in education, AI, sustainability citizenship, disruptive technologies. HC for Côte d'Ivoire to Ireland. Daithí has projects from Africa to Ireland and he's volunteering to help us lead in the global scanning effort for his many geographic regions and types of expertise related to high quality "immersive learning" experiences, at scale.