The annual Horizon Report is a collaborative effort between the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). Each year, the report identifies and describes six areas of emerging technology likely to have a significant impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression in higher education within three adoption horizons: a year or less, two to three years, and four to five years.

The areas of emerging technology cited for 2009 are:

1. Mobiles (i.e., mobile devices)
2. Cloud computing
3. Geo-everything (i.e., geo-tagging)
4. The personal web
5. Semantic-aware applications
6. Smart objects

Link: http://www.educause.edu/node/163616

The annual Horizon Report is a collaborative effort between the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). Each year, the report identifies and describes six areas of emerging technology likely to have a significant impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression in higher education within three adoption horizons: a year or less, two to three years, and four to five years.

The areas of emerging technology cited for 2008 are:

1. Grassroots Video
2. Collaboration Webs
3. Mobile Broadband
4. Data Mashups
5. Collective Intelligence
6. Social Operating Systems

Link: http://www.educause.edu/node/162471

The annual Horizon Report is a collaborative effort between the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). Each year, the report identifies and describes six areas of emerging technology likely to have a significant impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression in higher education within three adoption horizons: a year or less, two to three years, and four to five years.

The areas of emerging technology cited for 2007 are:

1. User-Created Content
2. Social Networking
3. Mobile Phones
4. Virtual Worlds
5. New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of Publication
6. Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming&lt

Link: http://www.educause.edu/node/154465

The annual Horizon Report is a collaborative effort between the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). Each year, the report identifies and describes six areas of emerging technology likely to have a significant impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression in higher education within three adoption horizons: a year or less, two to three years, and four to five years.

The areas of emerging technology cited for 2006 are:

1. Social computing
2. Personal broadcasting
3. Cell-phone-accessible educational content and services
4. Educational gaming
5. Augmented reality and enhanced visualization
6. Context-aware environments and devices

Link: http://www.educause.edu/node/154127

The annual Horizon Report is a collaborative effort between the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). Each year, the report identifies and describes six areas of emerging technology likely to have a significant impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression in higher education within three adoption horizons: a year or less, two to three years, and four to five years.

The areas of emerging technology cited for 2005 are:

1. Extended Learning
2. Ubiquitous Wireless
3. Intelligent Searching
4. Educational Gaming
5. Social Networks and Knowledge Webs
6. Context-Aware Computing/Augmented Reality

Link: http://www.educause.edu/node/153578