2008 Shortlist

From Horizon.au

The 2008 Horizon Report Semi-Finalists -- the "Short List"

To kick off the Horizon.Museum Advisory Board's discussions about potential technologies and trends for the 2008 Horizon Report for Museums, we will start by reviewing the 2008 Short List from the higher-education-focused Horizon Project.

The Horizon Project's 2008 Short List , twelve semifinalist topics determined by rankings of the responses to the Research Questions, was a precursor to the final report, and provided the initial summaries for the topics that appear in the report, and for six additional areas that did not make the final cut. The Short List was used to help Horizon Project Advisory Board members in the final rankings process. Horizon.Museum Board members should review the list and descriptions before answering the Research Questions, giving consideration to ways in which higher education and museums converge and diverge in their application of technology. Once the Horizon.Museum Short List has been selected, our own topics will appear in this space.

• Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less
  • Webware
  • Collaborative Workspaces
  • Simple Video Capture and Sharing
  • Community Tagging
• Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years
  • Mobile
  • Geotagging
  • Socially-Centered Virtual Worlds
  • Scholarly Mashups
• Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years
  • Collective Intelligence
  • Social Operating Systems
  • Open Education Resources
  • Alternative Interaction Devices

• Key Trends
  • Growing use of Web 2.0 and social networking tools is changing our ideas of scholarly contribution and community
  • Increasing globalization continues to affect the way we work, collaborate, and communicate
  • The notions of collective intelligence and mass amateurization are pushing the boundaries of scholarship
  • As the amount and variety of content increases, it is becoming more difficult to filter the noise to find the signal
  • Smaller, more powerful devices are offering increased access and portability
  • The gap between students’ perception of technology and that of faculty continues to grow
  • The environment of higher education continues to change, with a growing trend toward open innovation

• Critical Challenges
  • Academic review and faculty rewards are increasingly out of sync with new forms of scholarship
  • Assessment of new forms of work continues to present a challenge to educators and peer reviewers
  • There are significant shifts taking place in scholarship, research, creative expression, and learning, and a need for innovation and leadership at all levels of the academy
  • There is a growing need for formal instruction in 21st-century literacies, including information literacy, visual literacy, and technological literacy
  • Higher education is facing a growing expectation to deliver services, content and media to mobile and personal devices
  • The renewed emphasis on collaborative learning is pushing the educational community to develop new forms of interaction and assessment