Hi! I'm Ran Hinrichs, an author, speaker, innovator, award winner, and immersive engineer. I work primarily in interactive learning on line. My history dates back to the early 1980s at UCLA when the Internet was just getting started. I wrote my master's thesis on an AI program to teach incoming freshman students how to write college level papers.
Mike Rowe said "never follow your passion, but always bring it with you". Exactly. Instead of talking about immersive education, I spent quite a lot of years making it. I developed the first World Wide Web class in San Jose while working at Sun Microsystems. I worked at MIT as a Principal Investigator on Games to Teach, while leading the Learning Science and Technology group in Microsoft Research. I started a company dedicated to making virtual reality education for corporations. I hold ten Telly awards for the creation of these environments.
I've worked on so many projects and started an Immersive Education program in the iSchool at the University of Washington. My students are published and award winning in their endeavors as well.
Currently I'm focusing my passion on Reimagining Cybersecurity Education using Immersive Techniques, and Growing an Engaged Church in Skagit Valley Catholic Parishes.
I believe in four values:
1) Increase presence (through a combination of identity and reputation building).
2) Create a bonding community (through diversity, inclusion, critical thinking, and collaboration).
3) Enable value creation, or co-creation so students can measure each other's performance and conformance to the high standards of the community.
4) Persist. Never let go of your values. Stay married to the same woman, and believe you can only accept other people, because you cannot change them.
I look forward to growing my identity and presence in Wikipedia.
New Learnings Every now and then, someone teaches you something you did not know. I want to acknowledge Jay David Martin for teaching me about disruptive editing. You have persistently removed material backed up by reliable sources and replaced it with your own personal opinions. This is not how Wikipedia operates—this sort of editing is disruptive. Jaydavidmartin (talk) 23:20, 16 April 2021 (UTC)