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[edit] What's New? See Rachel Smith's prezi presentation on the 2009 Horizon Report The 2010 Horizon Report Wiki is on a new site at http://horizon.wiki.nmc.org How to participate in the Horizon Project Start tagging new resources for the next horizon project as hz10 plus our new Horizon wide tag of hznmc. Comments on the CommentPress version of the 2009 Horizon Report. Nominate yourself for the 2010 Horizon Project Advisory Board Tag resources in delicious.com for the next Horizon Report as hz10 See the other Horizon Projects listed to the left We're done! Get the 2009 Horizon Report or see the online CommentPress version. It was released January 20, 2009 at the EDUCAUSE ELI Conference.

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 and produces the NMC’s annual Horizon Report.

[edit] Horizon Report Archives

2009 Horizon Report http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2009

• Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less
  • Mobiles
  • Cloud Computing
• Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years
  • Geo-Everything
  • The Personal Web
• Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years
  • Semantic-Aware Applications
  • Smart Objects

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 Boradband
  • Data Mashups
• Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years
  • Collective Intelligence
  • Social Operating Systems

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

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

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

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