Tuesday, January 27, 2009

2009 Horizon Report

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Reflecting Sea,
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The 2009 Horizon Report is out this month. It looks at future trends in technology in education for the next five years. It is compiled very quickly (so things do not go out of date by the time it is published.)

This year’s report highlights innovations that we will be seeing more of in

Less that 1 year
- mobile technology
- cloud computing


2-3 years
- what it calls ‘geo-everything’, which refers to the ability of the commonness pieces of kit to know where they are and feed the information back.
- The personal web

4-5 years
- semantic web applications
- smart objects

It makes interesting reading. There are many interesting examples of applications being used at the moment in higher education in the sciences.

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