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STATUS: Advisory Board members are reviewing the 12 items below in preparation for the upcoming final selection the week of December 5, 2005.
PROCESS:
Each of the 12 items below has been placed into an adoption horizon based on the first-pass ranking data, and has undergone initial research. An editable wiki-based one-page summary for each has been prepared in the general format of the Horizon Report which is accessible from the links below. Advisory Board members are encouraged to add comments and links to any section, or to insert questions that they may have. Suggestions for alternate names or wordings are encouraged.
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less
- Social Computing.
- Personal Video/Audio Sharing.
- Advanced Video Collaboration & Communication.
- Portable Devices.
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years
- Ubiquitous Networks.
- Enterprise and Web Services.
- Smart Phones.
- Digital Gaming.
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years
- Augmented Reality and Enhanced Visualization.
- Next-Generation Folksonomic Tools.
- Context-Aware Computing.
- Even Smarter Classrooms.
Key Trends
- Dynamic knowledge creation and social computing tools and processes are becoming more widespread and accepted.
- Mobile and personal technology is increasingly being viewed as a delivery platform for services of all kinds
- Consumers are increasingly expecting individualized services, tools, and experiences, and open access to media, knowledge, information, and learning.
- Collaboration is increasingly seen as critical across the range of educational activities, including intra- and inter-institutional activities of any size or scope.
Critical Challenges
- Peer review and other academic processes
- Information literacy
- Intellectual property and management of digital assets
- Scaling technologies that work
- Support needs related to technological "churn"
- Cross-institutional collaboration
Sandbox — this is the space where most of the work of the 2006 Horizon Report was initally captured
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