Just published, the Tomorrow's World annual ( of Higher (& Further) education. Sorry. Too cynical. The annual Horizon Report is always interesting.
The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the NMC’s Horizon Project, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have considerable impact on teaching, learning, and creative expression within higher education.
Some technologies may not be relevant to FE but much of them are. The report is broken down into three sections: technologies on the brink of adoption; those which may be adopted in 2-3 years; and in 4-5 years.
Imminent? Mobile computing & Open Content. Fair enough.
2-3 years? Simple Augmented Reality & electronic books. 4-5 years? I'm not looking that far ahead!
Interesting that they consider that the day of the (academic) e-book is not here yet. With this I would concur. We need e-book readers); we need sympathetic publishers or a new publishing model; we're going to get David Cameron. [Sorry. A perfectly structured post (in my head) is being overcome by the office Radio One & endless wittering].
Maybe this is what the future will look like:
But, given that our ICT & ICLT people can't get their heads Windows Server 2003, DNS, LMSs & the alphabet soup that is education, maybe we shouldn't go to this year's BETT show but 2005's. They could handle that.
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