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Report on Emerging Technologies Released

The 2007 Horizon Report has been released by the New Media Consortium .

The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the NMC’s Horizon Project, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within higher education….

The core of the report describes six areas of emerging technology that will impact higher education within three adoption horizons over the next one to five years. To identify these areas, the project draws on an ongoing conversation among knowledgeable persons in the fields of business, industry, and education; on published resources, current research and practice; and on the expertise of the NMC and ELI communities….

Learn more about the Horizon Project and contribute to future editions at http://horizon.nmc.org/wiki/Main_Page.  NMC is a community of hundreds of leading universities, colleges, museums, and research centers exploring the use of media and emerging technologies in higher education.

Add comment December 15th, 2007

Thank you, John Wilkins

I was catching up on Lorcan Dempsey’s thoughts before attending his talks at KU today and tomorrow.  Lorcan, thanks for pointing me to John Wilkins’ blog - really more essay than blog.  While reading John’s salient and well-structured thoughts on metasearch and library systems, I find myself nodding and thinking “exactly”.  “We must not try to do what the network can do for us”.  Read on….

1 comment December 5th, 2007