The Horizon Report In Action: Emerging Technologies Today and Tomorrow Malcolm Brown Veronica Diaz...

The Horizon Report In Action: Emerging Technologies Today and Tomorrow

Malcolm Brown

Veronica Diaz

EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative

Session outline

(1) Background: history, purpose, and process

(2) Trends and challenges

(3) The 2010 Report: the six technologies through a T&L Lens

(4) Putting the Horizon Report to work for you

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(1)History, Purpose, and Process

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Gartner hype cycle model (ca. 1995)

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Needs

Prognostication Learning, academic focus When as well as what Engage campus leadership Context of trends and challenges Illustrated

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Process

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6 emerging technologies on3 three adoption horizons

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The 5 big ones

1. What would you list among the established technologies that learning-focused institutions should all be using broadly today to support or enhance teaching, learning, or creative expression?

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The 5 big ones

2. What technologies that have a solid user base in consumer, entertainment, or other industries should learning-focused institutions be actively looking for ways to apply?

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The 5 big ones

3. What are the key emerging technologies you see developing to the point that learning-focused institutions should begin to take notice during the next 3 to 5 years? What organizations or companies are the leaders in these technologies?

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The 5 big ones

4. What do you see as the key challenges related to teaching, learning, or creative expression that learning-focused institutions will face during the next 5 years?

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The 5 big ones

5. What trends do you expect to have a significant impact on the ways in which learning-focused institutions approach our core missions of teaching, research, and service?

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Questions?

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(2)Trends and Challenges

2010 Trends

Nature of the academy

How we work

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Nature of the academy

(2) “The technologies we use are increasingly cloud-based, and our notions of IT support are decentralized.”

(1) “The abundance of resources and relationships made easily accessible via the Internet is increasingly challenging us to revisit our roles as educators in sense-making, coaching, and credentialing.”

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How we work

(4) “The work of students is increasingly seen as collaborative by nature, and there is more cross-campus collaboration between departments.”

(3) “People expect to be able to work, learn, and study whenever and wherever they want to.”

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Meta-trends2007–2010

Trend towards the collective

Trend towards mobility and cloud

Trend towards new academic platforms: gaming, virtual worlds, visualization

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Critical challenges: 2008-2010

Content Delivery

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Critical Challenges: 2008-2010

Digital Literacy

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Critical Challenges: 2008-2010Assessment

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Questions?

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(3)The Six Technologies

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(4)Putting the Report to Work for You

The Horizon report in action

It’s future-oriented, it's a planning tool

You can participate in the process Comment on it Contribute to its research Tag things Nominate for the Advisory

Board

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Review the technologies and ask…

What is missing for this technology or practice to be implemented locally?

What kind of additional research needs to be done concerning this technology?

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Review the technologies and ask…

What would be the ramifications and opportunities for learning if this technology were adopted?

What kinds of teaching and learning engagements might this technology: make better or enable?

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Review the technologies and ask…

What might be some low cost points of entry or possibilities for a pilot?

If we decide to do a pilot on one of the technologies, what kind of evaluation methodology can we overlay on the project to assess outcomes?

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Spawn local, HR-like processes

Follow HR process methodology

Form institutional study/research teams

Work with cross-institutional or virtual study/research teams

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Use to support proposals

Cite the Horizon Report as a reference

Use for local funding requests

Use for foundations and funding agencies

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Strategic and tactical planning processes

Strategic: medium and longer term horizons

Reference the trends and challenges

Use the example sites

Tactical: shorter term horizons

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Discover the pioneers

Who’s working with these technologies now?

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Distribute locally

Send to senior administrators

Send to key planners

Send to key partners

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photo mashup credit: New Media Consortium

Brainstorm around the “camp fire”

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Questions?

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Contact us with your ideas:Malcolm Brown, Director, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, mbrown@educause.edu ::::::::::::::::Veronica Diaz, Associate Director, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, vdiaz@educause.edu