1. Overview: What Is the Innovation Garden?

Providing a high-level introduction for newcomers and returning contributors.

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The iLEAD Innovation Garden is the practice-facing pillar of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN). It is a collaborative space where educators, designers, technologists, artists, and community practitioners cultivate immersive learning experiences, refine applied methods, and contribute practice-based evidence to the global field.

The Garden exists to:

• Support hands-on design, prototyping, and iteration

• Surface emergent cross-platform practices

• Provide tutorials, walkthroughs, and design examples

• Create a welcoming pathway for new practitioners

• Produce high-quality experiential contributions for the annual iLRN conference

• Feed validated practices back into the iLRN Knowledge Tree and Repository

The Garden functions as a living ecosystem where ideas grow through community-supported experimentation and evidence-informed refinement.