The Horizon Report 2009 - ICT and learning

The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the NMC’s Horizon Project, a long-running qualitative research project that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, research, or creative expression within learning-focused organizations.

Here is a link to the Horizon Report on the web, http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2009/

You can download an Australian / New Zealand edition PDF
http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2008-Horizon-Report-ANZ.pdf

This report talks about key trends, critical challenges, and technologies to watch. It discusses technologies in terms of "time to adoption" ie one year or less, two to three years, four to five years, and for each it gives an overview, explores relevance for teaching / learning / creative expression, gives examples and identifies further reading. In three words the technology is personal, portable and social.

The five research questions that are at the core of the Horizon Project are :

• What would you list among the established technologies that learning-focused institutions should all be using broadly today to support or enhance teaching, learning, or creative expression?
• What technologies that have a solid user base in consumer, entertainment, or other industries should learning-focused institutions be actively looking for ways to apply?
• What are the key emerging technologies you see developing to the point that learning-focused institutions should begin to take notice during the next 3 to 5 years? What organizations or companies are the leaders in these technologies?
• What do you see as the key challenges related to teaching, learning, or creative expression that learning-focused institutions will face during the next 5 years?
• What trends do you expect to have a significant impact on the ways in which learning-focused institutions approach our core missions of teaching, research, and service?