The NMC’s Horizon Report Higher Education Edition aims to identify emerging technologies that a panel of experts think will impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in Higher Education over the next five years, along with key trends accelerating adoption, and challenges impeding that.
There is a project wiki which allows exploration the creation of the report, and if you want to see how previous predictions worked out you can see the previous reports or Audrey Watters’ admirable overview.
The report contains an overview graphic which shows the topics covered this year. How you use the report will depend on your focus. I liked the ‘master set’ of technologies that the report creators had looked at as it gives a wider view of emerging technologies and strategies, and how they fit together. The Makerspaces section looks interesting; the idea of having a place that any students and staff could go and use laser cutters, 3D printers, and make things with Arduinos, seems exciting.
Have a look at the report and see what you find interesting. If there are one or more topics that anyone wants to talk about, we can easily arrange a meeting of interested minds online using Blackboard Collaborate.