The Horizon 2008 Report- Emerging Technologies for Teaching & Learning

You just might want to read The Horizon 2008 Report by the New Media Consortium and Educause on the key emerging technologies or practices that will impact higher education in the next 5 years.

The collaborative report from NMC and Educause draws on current research and identifies 6 technologies that are likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, and creative expression at learning institutions.

The six technologies are divided into adoption horizons :

• 1st Adoption Horizon- Grassroots Video & Collaborative Webs- found on most campuses
• Mid-term Horizons- Mobile Broadband and Data Mashups- beginning to appear at leading edge organizations
• Far-term Horizons- Collective Intelligence & Social Operating Systems- hints at academia use 4-5 years down the road
  

The report takes a close look at each of the 6 technologies, tells how it is being used and how it could be used, and tells why it is relevant to teaching and learning. An annotated list follows each technology description with links to tagged resources.

I think you will find the direction 'learning' technology will take over the next few years an interesting ride.