2011 Horizon Report Released

Each year since 2004, the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) have released a "Horizon Report" which describes areas of emerging technology that their advisory board believes will have significant impact on education and creative expression over the next one to five years.

The areas of emerging technology they cited for 2011 are:

Time to adoption: One Year or Less

• Electronic Books
• Mobiles

Time to adoption: Two to Three Years

• Augmented Reality
• Game-based Learning

Time to adoption: Four to Five Years

• Gesture-based Computing
• Learning Analytics

In addition, the report cites four key trends:

1. The abundance of resources and relationships made easily accessible via the Internet is increasingly challenging us to revisit our roles as educators in sense-making, coaching, and credentialing.
2. People expect to be able to work, learn, and study whenever and wherever they want.
3. The world of work is increasingly collaborative, giving rise to reflection about the way student projects are structured.
4. The technologies we use are increasingly cloud-based, and our notions of IT support are decentralized.

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/HR2011.pdf