Immersive Education (iED) gives participants a sense of "being there", even when attending a class or training session in person isn't possible, practical, or desirable. It provides educators and students with the ability to connect and communicate in a way that greatly enhances the learning experience.

Originally available only to university students, the next generation of iED is focused on a broad spectrum of academic and non-academic users (higher education, K-12, and corporate training).

iED Summits are official Immersive Education Initiative conferences organized specifically for educators, researchers, and administrators. iED Summits consist of presentations, panel discussions, break-out sessions, and workshops that provide attendees with an in-depth overview of immersive-learning platforms, technologies and cutting-edge research from around the world. iED Summits feature new and emerging tools involving virtual worlds, learning games, educational simulations, and mixed/augmented reality, as well as related teaching tools, techniques, technologies, standards, and best practices.

This summit will address core topics on the use of virtual and mixed-reality environments for online education and training applications. The scope will be fairly broad and will look at a range of innovative uses of virtual-reality immersive environments. Contributions will range from using and developing virtual environments through to practitioners' experiences in teaching online and developing new approaches and pedagogies, including underpinning theories, human factors, pedagogy and design/evaluation strategies, case studies, and more technical/scientific research topics.