The Horizon 2010 report on emerging technologies for education

Johnson, L., Levine, A., Smith, R., & Stone, S. (2010). The 2010 Horizon Report. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium

The New Media Consortium’s annual report on emerging technologies is out. It follows previous formats in identifying six technologies over three time periods. This year the authors picked the following:

One year or less

mobile computing
open content

Two to [...]

News on Virtual Worlds: NMC March Symposium and MacArthur Foundation Awards

Natasha Boskic writes:

I attended the NMC Symposium on New Media & Learning at the end of March (2009) which was completely done in Second Life.

It was an extraordinary experience with good presentations, with things running smoothly and on time. A variety of speakers with diverse topics made the sessions interesting in their own way, even [...]

Online symposium on New Media and Learning (NMC)

Call for Proposals
NMC Symposium on New Media and Learning
March 24-26, 2009, via the Internet

Proposals for presentations for the NMC Symposium on New Media and Learning, a special 2-day, live online event to be held March 24-26, 2009, are being solicited through Monday, March 9, 2009.

See http://www.nmc.org/2009-nml-symposium for full details.

About the Symposium
The 2009 NMC Symposium on [...]

2009 NMC Summer Conference in Monterey, California

This is one of the most important e-learning conferences in North America. I would love to go, but can’t, as I am flying my plane coast to coast as part of the 100th anniversary celebrations of the first trans-continental air flight across Canada. So think of me when you are in Monterrey!

2009 NMC Summer Conference [...]

The Horizon Report: 2008 Australia-New Zealand Edition

The Horizon Report: 2008 Australia-New Zealand Edition (304K, 32 pp) is available from the NMC website. The 32-page report is free, and has been released with a Creative Commons license to facilitate its use, easy duplication, and broad distribution.

This is a very interesting report and will be of interest to all those following emerging technologies, [...]