Welcome to the 2006 Horizon Project Wiki. This space has been created as a place for the members of the Horizon Project Advisory Board to manage the process of selecting the foci for the 2006 Horizon Report, which will be co-published by the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), and released as part of the closing keynote session of the annual ELI meeting in San Diego on January 31, 2006.
For additional detail on the timeline, including all activities and due dates, click here or on the graphic above. The menu below will lead you to a variety of resources, news items, discussion areas, links, and more. The items in these areas are meant to grow – please add to them liberally from your own readings and environmental scanning – and above all, leave comments!
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 first 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. In addition key trends and critical challenges were also identified by the porocess.
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
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years
Key Trends
Critical Challenges
First Pass at Rankings
STATUS: Advisory Board members have conducted the first pass at ranking the technologies, trends, and challenges that will become the focus of the 2006 Horizon Report and the initial analysis of those rankings is completed. Each Advisory Board member was given 10 votes to allocate among the items listed under each of the five questions (50 votes total) as a way of indicating the relative importance of the items to our foci of teaching, learning and creative expression.
Summaries of completed work
Wiki sections where work has been completed
STATUS: Advisory Board members have reviewed the articles in this section, and selected the ones they thought were most important to our work. The items in the the categories below have been rank ordered.
STATUS: Advisory Board members continue to comment on the discussion topics listed below, and are encouraged to add new ones.
PROCESS:
Within each of the discussion areas below, each Advisory Board member is asked to make at least one observation. In particular, we would like to identify those topics in the previous Horizon Reports which may still be relevant, or which may have moved to a closer planning horizon. In addition, we'd like to gain insight into any that may have missed the mark.
Please consider this our collective work area, and feel free to add comments, content, categories, new pages, and lots more resources. You can edit the content of this or any page using the Edit link on the right.