Replay of the recording of the 2013 ELI 2013 session where the Horizon Report was first released.

Released on 2/4/13, the NMC (New Media Consortium’s) Horizon Report, Higher Education Edition, is an annual “unbiased source of information that helps education leaders, trustees, policy makers, and others easily understand the impact of key emerging technologies on education, and when they are likely to enter the mainstream.” This is the 10th annual edition.

The Horizon Report is about LEARNING.

Time to adoption horizon:

• One Year or Less:
  • Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
  • Tablet Computing
• Two to Three Years:
  • Games and Gamification
  • Learning Analytics
• Four to Five Years:
  • 3D Printing
  • Wearable Technology

Key emerging trends:

1. Openness – concepts like open content, open data, and open resources, along with notions of transparency and easy access to data and information – is becoming a value.
2. MOOCs – weren’t even on last year’s report; but today are on the near-term list.
3. The workforce demands skills from college grads that are more often acquired from informal learning experiences than in universities.
4. There is increasing interest in using new sources of data for personalizing the learning experience and for performance measurement (learning analytics).
5.  The role of educators continues to change due to the vast resources that are accessible to students via the Internet.
6. Education paradigms are shifting to include online learning, hybrid learning, and collaborative models.

Significant challenges limit the transition to the emerging trends. We seem to be playing catchup a lot these days.

1. Faculty training still does not acknowledge the fact that digital media literacy continues its rise to importance as a key skill in every discipline and profession.
2. The emergency of new scholarly forms of authoring, publishing, and researching outpace sufficient and scalable modes of assessment.
3. Too often it is education’s own processes and practices that limit broader uptake of new technologies.
4. The demand for personalized learning is not adequately supported by current technology or practices.
5. New models of education are bringing unprecedented competition to the traditional models of higher education.
6. Most academics are not using new technologies for learning and teaching, nor for organizing their own research.

Want to get a head start on knowing what’s coming up for the next Horizon Report?

• Into Twitter? Use the hashtag #NMCHz to stay in the know and get a steady stream of resources.
• Mobile? Get the app for HZ News (iOS and Android)
• Want to keep up with the advisory board’s work during the year? Log onto horizon.wiki.nmc.org

NMC Horizon Report 2013 Higher Education Edition