Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Horizon Report 2009

Today EDUCAUSE and the NMC released the 2009 Horizon Report.

The Horizon Report names six "technologies to watch" that they predict will have significant impact on higher education within three adoption horizons over the next one to five years. The 2009 report names these technologies and adoption horizons:
  • mobiles - one year or less
  • cloud computing - one year or less
  • geo-everything - 2 to 3 years
  • personal web - 2 to 3 years
  • semantic-aware applications - 4 to 5 years
  • smart objects - 4 to 5 years

The 2008 report named these technologies:
  • Grassroots Video
  • Collaboration Webs
  • Mobile Broadband
  • Data Mashups
  • Collective Intelligence
  • Social Operating Systems
and the 2007 report named these:
  • user-created content
  • social networking
  • mobile phones
  • virtual worlds
  • new scholarship and emerging forms of publication
  • massively multi-player educational gaming

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