Welcome to iLRN2026-Central

iLRN-Central — The Network's Virtual Hub

Location: iLRN2026 Virtual Campus · FrameVR
Template: homebrewed from tiles.framevr.io
Capacity: 300 participants
Role: Welcome Center · Main Event Hub · Campus Gateway · Open Society Forum

Welcome to iLRN-Central

iLRN-Central is the hub Frame of the iLRN2026 Virtual Campus on FrameVR — the primary gathering place where participants arrive, orient, and engage with the full breadth of iLRN's research community, conference programming, and public civic life.

Purpose-built from scratch using Frame VR's tiles, iLRN-Central is organized around two defining structural features drawn from the classical Athenian civic model:

The Agora — a public forum where iLRN Working Groups and Guilds host scheduled presentations and open community conversations, with embedded voting forms that make participation a structural feature of the space.
The Stoa — a colonnaded gallery displaying 28 thematic posters across four walls, each wall facing one of the campus's four directional zones, providing every visitor an immediate and curated view of the network's work, values, and opportunities.

Together, the Agora and the Stoa make iLRN-Central not just a welcome space but a working demonstration of the Open Immersive Learning Society: a place where knowledge is displayed, debated, and shaped by the community in real time.

From iLRN-Central, participants navigate outward to the full campus hub-and-spoke system, including the Knowledge Tree, Circle of Scholars, Innovation Garden, iLEAD, Haptics Café, XRcade, Thirsty Scholar, Immersive Futures Lighthouse, and regional Chapter spaces.

The Agora: Immersive Learning Open Society Forum

The Agora is iLRN-Central's public civic forum — modeled on the Athenian agora as the space where citizens, scholars, and visitors gathered not just to observe but to participate in the life of the community.

In iLRN-Central, the Agora operates on a published schedule of presentations and community conversations hosted by iLRN's Working Groups and Guilds. These are open to all — members and the general public alike — and are designed to make iLRN's ongoing work in standards, research quality, design, and futures accessible beyond the conference itself.

How It Works

Working Groups and Guilds submit Agora sessions for scheduling. Each session follows a consistent structure:

Brief presentation by the hosting Working Group or Guild (10–15 minutes)
Open floor discussion — questions, contributions, and dialogue with attendees
Live voting or input via embedded Tally.so forms displayed in the frame

Tally.so forms are embedded directly in iLRN-Central and serve as the participation mechanism: attendees can register positions, submit structured input, vote on proposals, or contribute to working documents in real time during Agora sessions. Form responses feed back into the relevant Working Group's Codex pages and governance records.

Agora Hosts

Any chartered iLRN Working Group or iLRN member in good standing may host Agora sessions. This openness is deliberate: the Agora is not a curated stage for designated experts but a civic forum where any member of the community can bring work, questions, or proposals before the network.

Chartered Working Groups are standing Agora hosts by default. Current Working Groups include:

Working Group	Focus
WG-1	Standards Framework & Interoperability
WG-2	Design Guild — Immersive Learning Design
WG-3	Assessment, Quality & the Codex
WG-4	Immersive Futures & Horizon Scanning
WG-5	Evidence Repository & Research Infrastructure

Individual members hosting sessions are encouraged to connect their session to a relevant Working Group, chapter, or Codex thread — both to root the conversation in existing infrastructure and to ensure outputs are captured and acted upon.

Agora and the Open Society

The Agora is a structural expression of iLRN's organizational calling: Open the World. Open the Mind. Join the Open Immersive Learning Society.

Embedding voting forms in a public virtual space transforms the Agora from a presentation venue into a governance and co-creation mechanism. Community input collected here is not advisory decoration — it is routed into Working Group records, informs Codex updates, and feeds the standards and quality frameworks iLRN publishes and maintains.

The Agora is publicly accessible and operates on a rolling schedule year-round, not only during iLRN2026.

Scheduling and Participation

Agora session calendar: [Link to iLRN2026 Schedule / Agora Session Registry]
Propose an Agora session: [Tally.so form — Agora Session Proposal]
Submit input or vote during a session: Forms are displayed in-frame during each session

The Stoa: Knowledge Gallery

The Stoa is iLRN-Central's curated knowledge surface — 28 thematic posters arranged across four walls, each wall aligned to one of the campus's four directional zones. Every participant who enters iLRN-Central is immediately surrounded by the scope of iLRN's work and community.

North Wall — What's Happening

Conference program and announcements

#	Poster Title
1	Program at a Glance
2	Keynote & Featured Speakers
3	Special Tracks
4	Professional Presentations
5	Athens, Greece
6	Public Virtual Campus
7	Community Announcements

East Wall — See the Work

Research outputs and community recognition

#	Poster Title
1	Accepted Papers
2	Circle of Scholars
3	iLEAD Showcase
4	Indigenous Ways of Knowing
5	Codex Gallery of Quality Immersive Learning
6	Emerging Researcher Spotlight
7	Measure & Promote Quality

South Wall — Explore the Field

Foundational concepts and frontier research

#	Poster Title
1	From Plato's Cave to Open Immersive Societies
2	The Knowledge Tree
3	Immersive Futures
4	Standards in the Making
5	Codex / Single Source Documentation
6	What is Immersive Learning?
7	Research Frontiers 2026

West Wall — Join the Conversation

Membership, channels, and participation

#	Poster Title
1	Become a Member
2	Newsletter & Contributions
3	Partnerships
4	iLRN Geographic Chapters
5	Community Channels
6	Volunteer!
7	Innovate with iLRN

Campus Zones Accessible from iLRN-Central

iLRN-Central sits at the convergence of four directional zones. Spoke frames radiate outward from the hub along these axes.

Direction	Zone	Color	Key Destinations
Northwest	Knowledge Tree	Green	10 Track Branch Houses, research presentation spaces
Northeast	iLRN Network Membership	Purple	Circle of Scholars, Membership Hub, Chapters
Southwest	Innovation Garden	Teal	Design Guild, iLEAD, Haptics Café, XRcade
Southeast	Immersive Futures	Red	Lighthouse, Thirsty Scholar, Partner Frames

Orientation and Navigation

Kiosk stations in iLRN-Central allow participants to:

Access the full conference schedule and Agora session calendar
Navigate to Knowledge Tree track spaces and Special Track suites
Explore the Innovation Garden, Immersive Futures Lighthouse, and partner areas
Discover the iLRN Codex, membership resources, and community channels
Submit forms, register for events, or vote via embedded Tally.so interfaces

Persistent Campus Presence

iLRN-Central is publicly accessible beyond the iLRN2026 conference dates (June 14–15 online; June 26–30 Athens). It operates as a standing entry point to iLRN's knowledge infrastructure and as the year-round home of the Agora's public forum programming.

iLRN2026 Virtual Campus Overview
Agora Session Registry
Working Group Charters (WG-1 through WG-5)
Knowledge Tree — Track Branch Houses
Circle of Scholars
Innovation Garden & Design Guild
Immersive Futures Lighthouse
iLRN2026 Conference Program
FrameVR Campus Technical Guide
Tally.so Form Infrastructure (F0–F12)