In previous years I added my summary and perspective to help prepare you for reading the report but with the infographic and the video that the folks at NMC have created the works has all be done.
Download and view full report:NMC Horizon Report > 2017 Higher Education Edition
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You will definitely want to review Dr. Ruben R. Puentedura’s presentation slides:
Horizon Report 2012 Highlights
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less
- Mobile Apps
- Tablet Computing
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years
- Game-Based Learning
- Learning Analytics
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years
- Gesture-Based Computing
- Internet of Things
Key Trends
- The abundance of resources and relationships made easily accessible via the Internet is increasingly challenging us to revisit our roles as educators.
- Education paradigms are shifting to include online learning, hybrid learning and collaborative models.
- People expect to be able to work, learn, and study whenever and wherever they want to.
- The technologies we use are increasingly cloud-based, and our notions of IT support are decentralized.
- There is a new emphasis in the classroom on more challenge-based and active learning.
- The world of work is increasingly collaborative, driving changes in the way student projects are structured.
Significant Challenges
- Appropriate metrics of evaluation lag the emergence of new scholarly forms of authoring, publishing, and researching.
- Digital media literacy continues its rise in importance as a key skill in every discipline and profession.
- Economic pressures and new models of education are bringing unprecedented competition to the traditional models of tertiary education.
- Institutional barriers present formidable challenges to moving forward in a constructive way with emerging technologies.
- New modes of scholarship are presenting significant challenges for libraries and university collections, how scholarship is documented, and the business models to support these activities.
Source: Horizon Report 2012