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I read today about the newest release of the Horizon Report and decided to take a quick look. For those who don’t know, the Horizon Report is released each ear by Educause and tries to pinpoint emerging technologies that are “likely to have a significant impact on higher education in the next one to five years.”
- User-Created Content
- Social Networking
- Mobile Phones
- Virtual Worlds
- The New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of Publication
- Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming
If we look at the first three they are already very prolific here on the UNC campus. We have teachers using blogs and blogging more and more as part of the classroom and social networking and mobile phones are part of every students day. I have not had a chance to read the report in full, but I look forward to the ideas.
Update (1/23/06): Catherine Howell posted a post blog entry about the Horizion Report this morning and said that the report was not predicting the future, but actually referring to the past because some of these things have already been implemented in a lot of ways. I agree that may be true, but I think there is so much more we can do as well. Sure we have some blogs, but social networking has just been touched. Sure there are mobile phone audience response systems, but what else could we do? I believe we have just begun where we might go. If we look at this as the history we neglect potential development possibilities.