World Immersive Learning Labs Community Report 2025: From Individual Innovation to Collective Impact in XR Education
Hawkinson, E., Banerjee, P., Alip, A. S., Garcia, J., Puttman, S., Wuttisittifulkij, L., Mangubat, L., Taylan, F., Saludadez, L.
Abstract
This book documents a field-level experiment in collaborative knowledge building for XR in education shaped by more than 40 core presenters and hundreds of active participants across linked events and working sessions. Through unconferencing, shared storytelling, and structured group synthesis, educators, researchers, developers, students, and administrators worked together to surface common challenges, examine real implementation constraints, and compare approaches across contexts. Contributions reflect wide geographic variety, including Asia, Europe, North America, and the Global South, with cases drawn from rural schools, urban universities, open universities, community labs, and national-scale deployments. Rather than advancing a single expert position, the work shows how collective analysis shaped understanding of technological, pedagogical, accessibility, and infrastructure issues as they are experienced in practice. The overall findings suggest that sustainable XR integration depends less on hardware or platforms than on institutional coordination, teacher agency, and shared design practices. The book is valuable because it captures how a field is actively being formed through dialogue, experimentation, and negotiated understanding rather than through theory alone.
Immersive Learning Learning Labs XR Education Learning Design with Technology