CMIS Evaluation Technology Focus

The Horizon Report seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, research, or creative expression within learning-focused organizations.

• introduces six emerging technologies or practices that are likely to enter mainstream use in learning-focused organizations within three adoption horizons over the next one to five years

• One Year or Less: Mobiles
• One Year or Less: Cloud Computing
• Two to Three Years: Geo-Everything
• Two to Three Years: The Personal Web
• Four to Five Years: Semantic-Aware Applications
• Four to Five Years: Smart Objects

• identifies and ranks key trends affecting the practice of teaching, learning, research, and creative expression according to how significant an impact they are likely to have on education in the next five years.

• Increasing globalization continues to affect the way we work, collaborate, and communicate.
• The notion of collective intelligence is redefining how we think about ambiguity and imprecision.
• Experience with and affinity for games as learning tools is an increasingly universal characteristic among those entering higher education and the workforce.
• Visualization tools are making information more meaningful and insights more intuitive.
• As more than one billion phones are produced each year, mobile phones are benefiting from unprecedented innovation, driven by global competition.

The report is available for download as a pdf or you may view a web version.

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