The Horizon Report, published by The New Media Consortium and the Educause Learning Initiative, is an annual report summarizing key technologies to watch, trends in instructional technology, critical challenges and examples of leading pioneers in the adoption of new technologies. Each report covers three time-to-adoption time frames that highlight two technologies to emerge during that period. The report then provides an overview of each technology, an explanation of the relevance for teaching, learning, research, or creative expression, examples of use and links to further reading.
Time-to-Adoption: One Year or Less
- Mobiles
- Cloud Computing
Time-to-Adoption: Two to Three Years
- Geo-Everything
- The Personal Web
Time-to-Adoption: Four to Five Years
- Semantic-Aware Applications
- Smart Objects
Key Trends:
- Increasing globalization
- Collective intelligence in regards to ambiguity and imprecision
- Games as learning tools
- Visualization tools
- Mobile phone innovation
Critical Challenges:
- Formal instruction in new skills, including information literacy, visual literacy, and technological literacy
- New learning models to adapt to different learning styles
- Significant shifts in scholarship and research methods
- Data collection and mining of student information systems for formal assessment stretching resources
- Growing expectation of higher education to deliver services, content and media to mobile devices.