The annual Horizon Project, a joint initiative by the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative and the New Media Consortium, charts the landscape of emerging technologies for teaching, learning and creative inquiry. Since the launch of the Horizon Project in March 2002, each year a distinguished advisory board reviews a wide range of articles, research papers, postings, and websites to generate a list of technologies, trends, challenges, and issues that knowledgeable people in technology industries, higher education, and museums are thinking about.
On February 13th, the 2012 Horizon Report Advisory Board has released the “NMC Horizon Report: 2012 Higher Education Edition“.
“This year’s NMC Horizon Report identifies mobile apps and tablet computing as technologies expected to enter mainstream use in the first horizon of one year or less. Game-based learning and learning analytics are seen in the second horizon of two to three years; gesture-based computing and the Internet of Things are seen emerging in the third horizon of four to five years.” (NMC press release)
