Sunday, November 4, 2007

The Horizon Report 2007

This excellent report outlines how new and emerging technologies are impacting teaching and learning.

The Horizon Report 2007 highlights six technologies that the underlying research suggests will become very important to higher education over the next one to five years.

**Near Horizon (<1 Year)**
1. User-Created Content
2. Social Networking

** Mid Horizon (2-3 Years)**
3. Mobile Phones
4. Virtual Worlds

**Far Horizon (4-5 Years)**
5. The New Scholarship
6. Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming

An excellent summary of the report can be found here:
http://www.nmc.org/book/export/html/5068

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