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2010 New Horizons Report

Friday, December 4th, 2009

I’m always interested in learning from the prognosis of the New Media Consortium‘s Annual New Horizon Report. The 2010 preview (7th annual report)  is out – with still a few weeks to go in 2009!

As usual the report categorizes new educational technologies in three time frames.  And the winners are :

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less

  • Mobile Computing
  • Open Content

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years

  • Electronic Books
  • Simple Augmented Reality

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years

  • Gesture-Based Computing
  • Visual Data Analysis

Rather than squint into my own crystal ball, to attempt to validate or refute this latest publication, I thought it might be fun to look backwards to the first New Horizons Report issued in 2004.

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