The 2013 Horizon Report is now available. Framed specifically around higher education, the report describes this year’s findings from the NMC Horizon Project, designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in higher education.
Some timelines that emerged in the report:
- <1 year: Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), Tablet computing
- 2-3 years: Games and gamification, Learning analytics
- 4-5 years: 3D printing, Wearable technology. Each technology is described in depth with examples.
The report also key trends in higher education to provide context:
1. Openness is becoming a value – open content, open data, open resources, easy access to data and information
2. MOOCs – alternatives and supplements to traditional university courses
3. Workforce wanting skills often acquired from informal learning experiences
4. Learning analytics personalizing the learning experience and performance measurement
5. Role of educators continue to change – more curation and other forms of validation needed
6. Education shifting to include online learning, hybrid learning, collaborative models
Announcement/links – http://www.nmc.org/publications/2013-horizon-report-higher-ed
2013 Wiki – http://horizon.wiki.nmc.org/
Full report – http://www.nmc.org/system/files/pubs/1359993875/2013-horizon-report-HE.pdf (44 p.)
