SUMMARY:: Immersive Education Initiative Founding Director : Knowledge Foundation Founding Director : Established the field of Immersive Education : Coined term "Immersive Education" : Coined term "Immersive Illness" : Coined term "Inversion of Immersive" (3D Printing) : Knowledge Token® inventor : International best-selling technology author : Award-winning presenter and industry speaker : Named one of the 40 most innovative people in the Information Technology (IT) industry : Award-winning Boston College faculty : Inventor of patented and patent-pending Internet and World Wide Web technology : Co-founder of Mantis Development Corporation : Founding Chair of the Web3D Consortium Universal Media Working Group : Founding Chair of the Web3D Consortium Web3D and Moving Picture Experts Group (Web3D-MPEG) Working Group : Co-Chair of the Web3D Consortium Intellectual Property Rights Task Group : Web3D Consortium Liaison to Moving Picture Experts Group : Web3D Consortium Liaison to World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) ::DETAILAward-winning Boston College faculty (1999-2023) Aaron E. Walsh established the field of Immersive Education in the 1990s and is today the founding Director of the Knowledge Foundation and the Immersive Education Initiative.The Knowledge Foundation is a Swiss educational organization responsible for the design, development, deployment and ongoing maintenance of the global Knowledge Token® system and related open international standards for blockchain technology in the field of education.Immersive Education Initiative is a non-profit international consortium of universities, colleges, research institutes, consortia and companies that work together to define and develop open standards, best practices, platforms, and communities of support for virtual reality and game-based learning and training systems (i.e., virtual worlds, learning games and serious games, augmented reality). Thousands of Initiative members together service millions of students worldwide. In 2007 he was named one of the 40 most innovative people in the Information Technology (IT) industry by Computerworld, the premier source of news and analysis for the IT industry. He received the prestigious national award in recognition for his pioneering work on Immersive Education, which is recognized as "...innovative, promising technology which holds the potential to significantly affect society in the near future."The same year that Walsh was named one of the 40 most innovative people in the Information Technology industry he... https://gridinstitute.com/people/aew/