Horizon Report 2010

Produced as part of an ongoing collaboration between the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI)

• The abundance of resources and relationships made easily accessible via the Internet is increasingly challenging us to revisit our roles as educators in sense-making, coaching, and credentialing.
• 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 decentralised.
• The work of students is increasingly seen as collaborative by nature, and there is more cross-curricula collaboration between departments.

are described that are likely to enter mainstream use in education within three adoption horizons spread over the next one to five years

Within the next 12 months:

• mobile computing
• open content

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6 Emerging Technologies and Practices

Within two to three years:

• electronic books
• simple augmented reality

Key Trends

Within four to five years:

• gesture-based computing
• visual data analysis.