These questions will guide our selection of emerging technologies and ideas for the 2006 Horizon Report. The first three correspond to the three horizons that are used to organize the report: one year or less; one to three years; or three to five years before the technology or idea reached the mainstream. The last two are intended to help us focus our selections on the report's foci of teaching, learning, and creative expression.
Please add your thoughts liberally here – ideas for things to include in the report, descriptions or lists of technologies you think are going to be important, or just musings on the questions.
What would you list among the established technologies that colleges and universities should all be using broadly today to support or enhance teaching, learning, or creative expression?*
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– Ubiquitous wireless
– Portals
– Hybrid Learning
– Repositories
– Course management systems
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What technologies that have a solid user base in consumer, entertainment, or other industries should colleges and universities be actively looking for ways to apply?*
2005 Advisory Board initial responses:
– Just-in-Time Embedded Learning
– Instant Messaging
– Repositories/Online stores of digital content for sharing or licensing
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What are the key emerging technologies you see developing to the point that colleges and universities should begin to take notice during the next 3 to 5 years? What institutions or companies are the leaders in these technologies?*
2005 Advisory Board initial responses:
– Wi-max broadband wireless
– Social Collaboration Tools
– Mobility Tools
– GPS/location-aware wireless computing
– Web-based manipulatives
– Gaming
– Augmented Reality
– Search bots; federated search
– Gesture-based Interfaces
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What do you see as the key challenge(s) related to teaching, learning, or creative expression that are facing colleges and universities during the next 5 years?*
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What trends do you expect to have a significant impact on the ways in which colleges and universities approach their core missions of teaching and research?*
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