The 2009 Horizon Report - emerging technologies in Education

2009 Horizon Report website

(via SlashMobs January 24th, 2009 and The Higher Chronicle January 22th, 2009)

The annual Horizon Report (367KB) describes the continuing work of the New Media Consortium (NMC)’s Horizon Project, a long-running qualitative research project that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, research, or creative expression within learning-focused organization 

Executive Summary
Technologies to Watch
Key Trends
Critical Challenges
The Horizon Project
One Year or Less: Mobiles
One Year or Less: Cloud Computing
Two to Three Years: Geo-Everything
Two to Three Years: The Personal Web
Four to Five Years: Semantic-Aware Applications
Four to Five Years: Smart Objects
Methodology
2009 Horizon Project Advisory Board