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The Horizon Report, 2008 Edition The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the New Media Consortium (NMC)’s Horizon Project, a five-year qualitative research effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within learning-focused organizations. The 2008 Horizon Report, the fifth in this annual series, is produced as a collaboration between the NMC and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), an EDUCAUSE program.

The main sections of the report describe six emerging technologies or practices that will likely enter mainstream use in learning-focused organizations within three adoption horizons over the next one to five years. Also highlighted are a set of challenges and trends that will influence our choices in the same time frames.

The project draws on an ongoing primary research effort that has distilled the viewpoints of more than 175 Advisory Board members in the fields of business, industry, and education into the six topics presented here; drawn on an extensive array of published resources, current research, and practice; and made extensive use of the expertise of the NMC and ELI communities. (The precise research methodology is detailed in the final section.) Many of the examples under each area feature the innovative work of NMC and ELI member institutions.

The format of the Horizon Report reflects the focus of the Horizon Project, which centers on the applications of emerging technologies to teaching, learning, and creative expression. Each topic opens with an overview to introduce the concept or technology involved and follows with a discussion of the particular relevance of the topic to education or creativity. Examples of how the technology is being—or could be—applied to those activities are given. Each description is followed by an annotated list of additional examples and readings which expand on the discussion in the Report, as well as a link to the list of tagged resources collected by the Advisory Board and other interested parties during the process of researching the topic areas. (Executive Summary)

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Table o f Contents:
Executive Summary..................................................... 3
■ Key Emerging Technologies
■ Critical Challenges
■ Significant Trends
■ After Five Years: The Metatrends
■ About the Horizon Project
Time-to-Adoption: One Year or Less
Grassroots Video.............................. 10
■ Overview
■ Relevance for Teaching, Learning, and Creative Expression
■ Examples
■ For Further Reading
Collaboration Webs............................ 13
■ Overview
■ Relevance for Teaching, Learning, and Creative Expression
■ Examples
■ For Further Reading
Time-to-Adoption: Two to Three Years
Mobile Broadband........................................................ 17
■ Overview
■ Relevance for Teaching, Learning, and Creative Expression
■ Examples
■ For Further Reading
Data Mashups....................... 20
■ Overview
■ Relevance for Teaching, Learning, and Creative Expression
■ Examples
■ For Further Reading
Time-to-Adoption: Four to Five Years
Collective Intelligence.............................. 23
■ Overview
■ Relevance for Teaching, Learning, and Creative Expression
■ Examples
■ For Further Reading
Social Operating Systems............................................... 26
■ Overview
■ Relevance for Teaching, Learning, and Creative Expression
■ Examples
■ For Further Reading
Methodology..................................... 30
2008 Horizon Project Advisory Board............. 32