2011 Horizon Report

The 2011 report spotlights six technologies as the ones to watch:

• electronic books and mobiles in one year or less
• augmented reality and game-based learning in two to three years
• gesture-based computing and learning analytics in four to five years

Key trends identified in the report include:

• People expect to be able to work, learn, and study whenever and wherever they want
• The world of work is increasingly collaborative, giving rise to reflection about the way student projects are structured

And these challenges are identified:

• Appropriate metrics of evaluation lag behind the emergence of new scholarly forms of authoring, publishing, and researching
• Economic pressures and new models of education are presenting unprecedented competition to traditional models of the university
• Keeping pace with the rapid proliferation of information, software tools, and devices is challenging for students and teachers alike
• and finally, the concept of learning analytics offers a future where a student’s education is custom tailored for their lives, learning styles and pursuits via “data mining, modeling and interpretation

Full text of the report in PDF format is available for download here.