Horizonau2008:Key Trends

From Horizon.au

2008 Horizon.au Short List 2008 Horizon.au Short List Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less Virtual Worlds / Immersive Environments Cloud-Based Applications Social Bookmarking Creative Commons Licensing Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years Geolocation Alternative Input Devices Open Education and Courseware Seamless Logon Integration Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years Deep Tagging Next-Generation Mobile Lifestreams Flexible Screen Technologies Critical Challenges Key Trends

The following themes were identified by the Advisory Board were identified as the key trends that will influence the widespread adoption of the technologies listed in the report during the next five years:

• Worldwide production of over 1 billion mobile phoens per year is driving both innovation and adoption of ever more capable portable devices. These machines have the capacity to access the network, but they are not owned by the institution, a situation which is creating a policy/reality lag. In addition, this movement away from desktop computers and labs is shifting the locus of control over access to resources from central authorities to users, with a resulting shift in the ways learning spaces are conceptualized and designed

• There is an increasingly important set of influences from the workplace that are impacting how learning is designed and conducted. This is pushing a greater awareness of the value of hands-on, purpose-driven, authentic, and other active learning approaches. Increasingly the efficacy of learning is being measured using concepts like engagement and time on task. The increased emphasis of the workplace on skills will fuel a greater focus on certifications, portfolios, and other ways that life experiences that can be documented.

• The increasing connectedness of people around the globe has and continues to dramatically reduce the costs of collaboration. the decline in these costs is paralleled by tremendous growth in the sorts of free and/or very-low-cost tools available to bring people together in real time, to share assets and resources, and to communicate.

• As both computers and the network increase in connectedness and capability, the set of technologies available to educators grows ever richer. The ubiquity of these tools has lowered the cost of entry to use them, and is in turn opening up a range of new opportunities for e-learning and other forms of technology-mediated learning.

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Why are these trends relevant to teaching, learning or creative expression?

• Education institutions and government organisations will need to become more flexible in allowing access to technology. It will not be possible to block access to the internet. The onus will need to shift from blocking to educating
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