The iLRN ecosystem of immersive learning

🌳 The Knowledge Tree

Roots, Trunk, Branches

• Roots: Foundations — Computer Science, Game Studies/UX, Learning Sciences

• Trunk: The emerging discipline of immersive learning

• Branches: Applications across education, culture, health, environment, workforce, and society
  👉 Provides structure, coherence, and a shared map of the field.

🌱 The Innovation Garden

Plots, Soil, Seasons

• Soil: Design-Based Research enriched with Constructive Alignment, Critical Design, Agile methods

• Two Plots:

  • Educators implementing immersive learning experiences

  • Designers creating high-quality immersive environments

• Seasons: Seeds → Growth → Bloom → Renewal
  👉 Cultivates creativity, experimentation, and iterative growth.

🔦🗼 The Immersive Futures Searchlight & Lighthouse

Scan and Guide

• Searchlight: Sweeps the horizon for emerging technologies, trends, and signals

• Lighthouse: Provides steady guidance, ethical orientation, and strategic direction

• Cycle: Scan → Sense-Make → Guide → Act
  👉 Equips the network to navigate uncertainty and shape preferable futures.

🌍 Together

• The Knowledge Tree gives us identity and structure grounded in evidence, reaching for the sky.

• The Innovation Garden gives us creativity and growth planted in co-design.

• The Searchlight & Lighthouse give us foresight and direction.

Together, they form iLRN’s ecosystem of immersive learning: rooted in knowledge, thriving in innovation, and guided by futures thinking—all in service of improving humanity and our world.