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2011 Horizon Report - emerging technologies likely to have an impact on higher education

Today, (February 9th, 2011), the New Media Consortium (NMC) and EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) jointly released the 2011 Horizon Report. This eighth edition conveys annual findings from the NMC’s Horizon Project, an ongoing research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching and creative inquiry in higher education. Six emerging technologies are recognized across three adoption horizons over the next one to five years, giving campus leaders and practitioners a valuable guide for discussion and planning.

View the work that produced the report at http://horizon.wiki.nmc.org

Download 2011 Horizon Report  ( 1.6Mb, 40 pages) 

 

Google TV on Campus

Google Student Blog, 18 January, 2011.

Google TV has been popping up on college campuses across the country. We’re coordinating with the Google Student Ambassador Program and University Programs to share Google TV with students and faculty...

That is why we are announcing Google TV for EDU, a seeding program to support university research...

News Corp. eyes education technologies market - english.news.cn

english.news.cn article, 16th December, 2010.

NEW YORK, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Media conglomerate News Corp. has entered the race for next-generation education technologies, according to media reports on Wednesday.

The Wall Street Journal revealed that News Corp. recently paid 360 million U.S. dollars for 90 percent of Wireless Generation, a New York-based company that develops software to help schools evaluate and monitor student performance and tailor teaching plans accordingly. New York City is Wireless Generation's client.

Amazon - An e-book reader that just may catch on

New York Times, November 22, 2007.

...The Kindle is a thin, 10-ounce slab of white plastic, tucked into a leatherette cover...

...But the part that will really rock your world is the Kindle’s free wireless cellular broadband service...

..No, the real point is instant book downloading.

The Kindle store offers best-seller lists, Most Popular lists and a Search box. The catalog includes 90,000 books so far, including 101 of the 112 currently listed as New York Times best sellers.

That dwarfs the Sony catalog (20,000 books), but Amazon says that it’s just the tip of the iceberg. Its goal is to have every printed book on earth available for instant download...

Google gets Presentations

From the Official Google Blog.

Starting today (9/17/2007), presentations -- whether imported from existing files or created using the new slide editor -- are listed alongside documents and spreadsheets in the Google Docs document list. They can be edited, shared, and published using the familiar Google Docs interface, with several collaborators working on a slide deck simultaneously, in real time. When it's time to present, participants can simply click a link to follow along as the presenter takes the audience through the slideshow. Participants are connected through Google Talk and can chat about the presentation as they're watching. Not wanting anyone to feel left out, we've made the presentation feature available in 25 languages; Google Apps customers can also access it as part of Google Docs.

If you're new to Google Docs, watch this video to learn more about creating and collaborating on documents (and now presentations!).

Today, Google releases new off-line web apps capability

Santiago Iniguez, Dean of IE Business School.

Here is an initiative from Google that might usher in a new wave of offline web applications.

Linus Upson, engineering director at Google said: "It's been a long time since the web has gained new fundamental capabilities. I think it's been about 10 years".

ZDnet description of the release:  (ZDnet blogger "Game has changed") "Google engineers have enabled what internet surfers for years have yearned for — web applications that work offline."

The search giant on Wednesday launched Google Gears, a browser plug-in that will let people run web applications when they're connected to the internet or not.

The company released the source code for the Google Gears software in conjunction with Google Developer Day (Today), a day-long conference in 10 locations.

The goal of Google Gears is to create a single, standardised way to add offline capabilities to web applications, said Linus..."

Financial Times: "Google moves to take on Microsoft"
Techcrunch: "Google Gears Lets Developers Take Apps Offline"
GigaOM: "Google goes offline on purpose"

Distance Learning (Mobile Learning?) - FT Rankings 2007

Business-Education Distance-Learning Rankings 2007 (32KB) March 19 2007

Picking a course: Table points to widespread disparity in programme formats Della Bradshaw, March 19 2007.

...Not everyone agrees. Indeed, the business programme accreditation bodies are at intellectual loggerheads over the subject.

At the Association of MBAs, based in London, accreditation requires a minimum of 120 hours of face-to-face teaching to be included in the MBA programme...

...In Brussels, the European Federation of Management Development (EFMD) takes a more liberal view. For programmes to earn the EFMD’s Cel qualification for technology-enhanced learning, at least 20 per cent of the teaching must be supported by e-learning...

Distance Learning March 2007 Selection of articles.

Up close and very personal Linda Anderson,  March 19 2007
...The phrase e-learning, she suggests, should perhaps be replaced by mobile learning, personalised learning or even ubiquitous learning. But it is not only the vocabulary that is altering...

...It would seem that e-learning and distance learning are no longer stand-alone subjects. Boundaries have blurred to the point that they can no longer be readily distinguished, with business schools and corporate universities alike using elements to support their teaching...

7 Things You Should Know About E-Books

From Educase

The "7 Things You Should Know About..." series from the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) provides concise information on emerging learning practices and technologies. Each brief focuses on a single practice or technology and describes what it is, where it is going, and why it matters to teaching and learning. Use "7 Things You Should Know About..." briefs for a no-jargon, quick overview of a topic and share them with time-pressed colleagues.

7 Things You Should Know About E-Books Download PDF(90 KB) offers new ways for readers to interact with content. An e-book that abandons the notion of reading from front to back, for example, encourages readers to take an active, self-directed role in how they learn. E-books incorporating audio, movies, and simulations facilitate deeper understanding of subject matter, while annotation features let users customize a text.

Scholarpedia

Article from The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 11, 2007.

If imitation really is the sincerest form of flattery, then Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales must be feeling pretty pleased with the new crop of upstart online encyclopedias coming from the academic world.

First came Larry Sanger's Citizendium -- a "progressive fork" of Wikipedia that aims to take articles from that site and let scholars mold them as they see fit (The Chronicle, October 27, 2006). And now there's Scholarpedia, which combines Wikipedia's open-source principles with a healthy dash of peer review.

Scholarpedia looks almost exactly like the pioneering site that inspired it, but it has a much more rigid hierarchy: All the articles on the site are written by scholars who are either invited by Scholarpedia directors or elected by the public. The articles are anonymously peer reviewed and placed under the charge of "curators" -- experts who are often the articles' authors -- who must approve any additions or edits.

For now Scholarpedia is restricting itself to articles on neuroscience and computational intelligence. "The approach of Scholarpedia does not compete with but rather complements that of Wikipedia," writes Eugene M. Izhikevich, a senior fellow in theoretical neurobiology at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, who is the site's editor in chief. "Instead of covering a broad range of topics, Scholarpedia covers a few narrow fields, but does that exhaustively."...

E-learning blog

Although somewhat critical of this blog's last post that was vaguely to do with e-learning, here is a link to a blog in English, Spanish and French on "E-learning, knowledge networks and Web2.0".

Google leaps up MBA jobs wish-list

Universum's American MBA Edition is an independent research survey that offers detailed information on the work-related opinions of MBA's at the leading business shools in the US. Their survery of 2006 has been used in several articles including:


Fortunes list of "100 top MBA Employers"
Financial Times,
CNN,
College Recruiter and Zdnet

Tags(clickable): Google, MBA jobs

Tech | - "The digital divide in Europe"

Eurostat report 10/11/2005: The digital divide in Europe, 85% of students used the internet in 2004

Tags(clickable): europa,  internet, europe, eurostat