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, new for 2006, 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.
For a detailed description of the 12 technologies listed below from 2005, see the 2005 'Short List'.
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?
2005 Advisory Board initial responses:
– Enterprise-Level Tools for Learning
– Ubiquitous Wireless
– Hybrid Learning (Blended Learning)
– Students' Communication Tools
2006 Advisory Board initial responses:
– Ubiquitous networks – not just wireless, but also high-speed networking, and especially highspeed networking to rurual areas, via powerlines (Diana Oblinger)
– Community Networks – is the Internet a utility? (Diana Oblinger)
– Grid computing and e-Science – the ability to easily move and share large data sets, and to put authentic data int hehands of students could be transformational (Diana Oblinger)
– RSS – Has done much to foster individual expression – but we are only beginning to tap it for learning (Diana Oblinger)
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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:
– Technologies for Searching and Finding
– Open Source (as an Enterprise-Level Strategy)
– Affective Computing (rename Multi-sensory? )
– Pervasive/Context-Aware Computing
2006 Advisory Board initial responses:
– Cellphones and other mobile devices – with much improved software, video & Flash capability, plus social interaction tools, (SMS, chat)(Diana Oblinger)
– Virtual Groups and Collaboration – these tools are very widely used in business, and their ability to support distributed work and processes is improving all the time (Diana Oblinger)
– 3-D Scans and Projection – these hologram-like tools increasingly allow visualization of context (Diana Oblinger)
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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:
– Knowledge Webs
– Social Networking and Connection Tools
– Gaming
– Augmented Reality
2006 Advisory Board initial responses:
– Haptics and other multi-modal technologies – gesture recognition, especially (Diana Oblinger)
– Next generation presence-awareness – your technology knows what you are doing, where you are, and delivers information to you based on that, eg. my phone is not ringing becasue it is linked to my calendar and knows I am in a meeting – but if my spouse were to call, that call would come through.
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What do you see as the key challenge(s) related to teaching, learning, or creative expression that colleges and universities will face during the next 5 years?
2006 Advisory Board initial responses:
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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?
2006 Advisory Board initial responses:
– Timeshifting – technology is allowing us more and more freedom to choose when and where we want to have an experience (Diana Oblinger)
– Distributed Cognition/Social Networking (Diana Oblinger)
– Visualization – 3-D can hold more info than 2-D (Diana Oblinger)
– Increasing Individualization the explosive growth of self-publishing is just one example; Flickr and other online communities also encurage individualization of the experience; peer-to-peer has some interesting social dimensions that faciliate this as well_(Diana Oblinger)_
– Mobility – People increasingly want their technology to go (Diana Oblinger)
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