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2008 Horizon Report
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2007 Horizon Report
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The 2007 Horizon Project was a joint project among students from five schools in different countries, who researched and envisioned the future of education and society through a framework of the 2007 Horizon Report. See some outstanding work that utilized in the project many of the technologies described in the report.

Welcome to the archive for the 2007 Horizon Project. This space was created as a place for the members of the Horizon Project Advisory Board to manage the process of selecting the topics for the 2007 Horizon Report, which was co-published by the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). (more...)

All of the discussions, content, and comments that were part of the research and subsequent selection process of the final report took place and were captured here in this Horizon Project wiki.

For additional details on activities, see the timeline.

Introduction to the Horizon Project Wiki

The Sandbox was our primary work area, and you will find links there to a range of discussions and activities. the sandbox evolved over time as we moved through the various processes involved in sorting through the technologies and issues we dealt with on the way to the final list featured in the 2007 Horizon Report. As we completed work, those aspects dropped to the sections below the Sandbox so that we could continue to refer that those efforts easily. Status and process advisories helped us to know what we were being asked to do each week.

In addition to the Sandbox is a carefully selected collection of [[Horizon2007:Emerging_Technologies|press clippings, articles, reports, essays, links], and RSS feeds we gathered to inform our work. The items in these areas continue to be meant to grow – please add to them liberally from your own readings and environmental scanning – and above all, leave comments!

Last year we began incorporating live RSS feeds into the Horizon Project wiki to ensure we had access to the most up-to-date content. There is much material here, and with your help, it will grow in significance, as you add your own resources to the mix.

A special section related to the Advisory Board follows the Web 2.0 area, and we round out the wiki with a look back to previous year's reports. Included here are active discussions from current and past advisory board members on the current state of some of the technologies we thought would be important. We'd like to know your views, as many of these are still relevant to our work.

Sandbox: Reviewing the Short List -- researching and discussing our 12 semifinalist topics

STATUS: The 2007 Horizon Report is complete and was officially released at the January 2007 ELI Annual conference.

The Short List, a list of 12 semifinalist topics determined from the rankings of the responses to the Research Questions below, was a precursor to the final report, and provides our initial summaries of the topics that appear in the report, as well as those for six additional areas that did not make the final cut. The Short List was used to help Advisory Board members in the final rankings process.

Readers are encouraged to add comments, examples, or links to any of the topics via the discussion pages below:

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years

Key Trends

Critical Challenges

Research Questions

how we collected and sorted our ideas

STATUS: The data collection part of the process is completed, as are the initial rankings that were used to produce the Short List

Note: Each ranker was allowed 10 votes per question, and multiple votes were encouraged as way of indicating relative importance. Within the rankings, numbers not in parentheses represent the total votes; numbers in parentheses indicate the number of people voting for an item.

Semifinalist Ranking summary.
Summary document of the first-round data.
Research Question One rankings / wiki page
Research Question Two rankings / wiki page
Research Question Three rankings / wiki page
Research Question Four rankings / wiki page
Research Question Five rankings / wiki page

Press Clippings – technology news and reports that informed our work

These categories of press clippings have been reviewed by the Advisory Board, and key articles have been tagged and moved to the top of each section. Please continue to add new ones!

A Look Back -- past Horizon Reports

We are still within the active horizons of all of the past Horizon Reports. Where are the technologies highlighted then? Are they as relevant today as they seemed they would be?

The Advisory Board has completed its look back. See their responses through the links below -- and weigh in with your perspectives! There is an active discussions attached to each of the reports below.

Creating a Shared Research Agenda -- taking the Horizon Report into the field

With the release of the fourth edition in this annual series, the NMC is undertaking for the first time a concerted, international effort to describe a research agenda based on the six practices and technologies featured in the 2007 edition of the Horizon Report. You are invited to participate in this process, contribute to the discussion, and help shape directions for future research in these topics across higher education.