HorizonMuseum:About

What's New?

• Advisory Board are reviewing the technologies, challenges, and trends discussed in the Research Questions, and ranking them in the First Pass Rankings phase.
• The Methodology and Research Notes sections have been added.
• The list of resources tagged by the community for our review grows daily! See them at hzmuseum08 and use the hzmuseum08 tag to add your own!

The New Media Consortium's Emerging Technologies Initiative focuses on expanding the boundaries of teaching, learning and creative expression by creatively applying new tools in new contexts. The Horizon Project, the centerpiece of this initiative, charts the landscape of emerging technologies in higher education and produces the NMC’s annual Horizon Report.

In 2008, the NMC is introducing several new Horizon Projects focused on specific program areas, including Horizon.Museum, which will consider the role of emerging technologies on museums. The Horizon Report for Museums, scheduled for release in June, 2008, will describe key technologies and trends likely to impact cultural stewardship, education, interpretation, management, audience engagement, and other aspects of museum practice during the next few years.

Members of the museum community are encouraged to participate in the Horizon.Museum Project, as users of and contributors to the wiki, or by tagging resources in del.icio.us, using the Project's tag hzmuseum08. The editors of the Horizon Report for Museums, Susan Chun and Leonard Steinbach, may be contacted by sending email to horizon.museum.editors [at] nmc.org.

Horizon Report Archives

NMC Horizon Report 2008 Download (256k PDF)

2008 Horizon Report http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2008

• Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less
  • Grassroots Video
  • Collaboration Webs
• Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years
  • Mobile Broadband
  • Data Mashups
• Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years
  • Collective Intelligence
  • Social Operating Systems

NMC Horizon Report 2007 Download (288k PDF)

2007 Horizon Report http://www.nmc.org/horizon/2007/report

• Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less
  • User-Created Content
  • Social Networking
• Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years
  • Mobile Phones
  • Virtual Worlds
• Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years
  • New Scholarship and Forms of Publishing
  • Massively Online Educational Gaming

NMC Horizon Report 2006 Download (552k PDF)

2006 Horizon Report

• Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less
  • Social Computing
  • Personal Broadcasting
• Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years
  • The Phones in Their Pockets
  • Educational Gaming
• Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years
  • Augmented Reality and Enhanced Visualization
  • Context-Aware Environments and Devices

NMC Horizon Report 2005 Download (400k PDF)

2005 Horizon Report

• Near Term: Mainsteam campus use within a year.
  • Extended Learning
  • Ubiquitous Wireless
• Mid-Term: Mainsteam campus use within one to three years.
  • Intelligent Searching
  • Educational Gaming
• Long Term: Mainsteam campus use within three to five year
  • Social Networks and Knowledge Webs
  • Context-Aware Computing/Augmented Reality

NMC Horizon Report 2004 Download (562k PDF)

2004 Horizon Report

• Near Term: Mainsteam campus use within a year.
  • Learning Objects
  • Scalable Vector Graphics
• Mid-Term: Mainsteam campus use within one to three years.
  • Rapid Prototyping
  • Multimodal Interfaces
• Long Term: Mainsteam campus use within three to five year
  • Context-Aware Computing
  • Knowledge Webs