2009 Horizon Report - Education & Technology

The annual Horizon Report is a collaborative effort between the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). Each year, the report identifies and describes six areas of emerging technology likely to have a significant impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression in higher education within three adoption horizons: a year or less, two to three years, and four to five years.

The areas of emerging technology cited for 2009 are:

• Mobiles (i.e., mobile devices)
• Cloud computing
• Geo-everything (i.e., geo-tagging)
• The personal web
• Semantic-aware applications
• Smart objects

EDUCAUSE 2008 Horizon Report released

The 2008 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report(PDF) was recently released and it provides quality information to help institutions, faculty, and students to better understand trends in technology and higher education. The report discusses six emerging technologies, critical challenges to higher education institutions, and significant trends. Some of the report restates what is already known, but places the information in context and provides a time line for adoption. This report is always worth the time to read.