Sunday, February 1, 2009

On the Horizon

The 2009 Horizon Report identifies and describes six areas of emerging technology likely to have a significant impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression in higher education within three adoption horizons: a year or less, two to three years, and four to five years.The areas of emerging technology cited for 2009 are:
• Mobiles (i.e., mobile devices) - one year or less
• Cloud computing - one year or less
• Geo-everything (i.e., geo-tagging) - 2 to 3 years
• The personal web - 2 to 3 years
• Semantic-aware applications - 4 to 5 years
• Smart objects - 4 to 5 years
http://connect.educause.edu/Library/ELI/2009HorizonReport/48003?time=1233509699

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