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EDUCAUSE 2011 Horizon Report Released

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The annual Horizon Report arrived this week. It’s something that I look forward to every year since it has a long history of covering the horizon of changes in the underlying academic library service technologies.

Read it “The Horizon Report 2011 Edition” here. (40 page PDF)

Citation:
Johnson, L., Smith, R., Willis, H., Levine, A., and Haywood, K., (2011). The 2011 Horizon Report.
Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium.

“This years? trends are:

Time-to-adoption One Year or Less:
? Electronic Books
? Mobiles

Time-to-adoption Two to Three Years:
? Augmented Reality
? Game-based Learning

Time-to-adoption Four to Five Years:
? Gesture-based computing
? Learning Analytics

Read the executive summary for a quick overview of the key trends and critical challenges:

Key Trends:

? The abundance of resources and relationships made easily accessible via the Internet is increasingly challenging us to revisit our roles as educators in sense-making, coaching, and credentialing.
? People expect to be able to work, learn, and study whenever and wherever they want.
? The world of work is increasingly collaborative, giving rise to reflection about the way student projects are structured.
? The technologies we use are increasingly cloud-based, and our notions of IT support are decentralized.

Critical Challenges:
? Digital media literacy continues its rise in importance as a key skill in every discipline and profession.
? Appropriate metrics of evaluation lag behind the emergence of new scholarly forms of authoring, publishing, and researching.
? Economic pressures and new models of education are presenting unprecedented competition to traditional models of the university.
? Keeping pace with the rapid proliferation of information, software tools, and devices is challenging for students and teachers alike.”

“From the Horizon Report: ?Now that they are firmly established in the consumer sector, electronic books are beginning to demonstrate capabilities that challenge the very definition of reading. Audiovisual, interactive, and social elements enhance the informational content of books and magazines. Social tools extend the reader?s experience into the larger world, connecting readers with one another and enabling deeper, collaborative explorations of the text. The content of electronic books and the social activities they enable, rather than the device used to access them, are the keys to their popularity; nearly everyone carries some device that can function as an electronic reader, and more people are engaging with electronic books than ever before.?”

Stephen

References:

Horizon Report ? Ebooks ? One year or less to Adoption

Horizon Report 2011

Full post as published by Stephen's Lighthouse on February 11, 2011 (boomark / email).