Emerging Learning Technologies:
The 2006 Horizon Report

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ELI Web Seminar, March 6, 2006 1:00 p.m. EST (12:00 p.m. CST, 11:00 a.m. MST, 10:00 a.m. PST); runs one hour

Emerging Learning Technologies: The 2006 Horizon Report

Special Guest

Larry Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
The New Media Consortium

Larry Johnson is chief executive officer of the New Media Consortium (NMC), an international consortium of colleges, universities, museums, and technology companies dedicated to using new technologies to support learning and creative expression. He is an acknowledged expert on the effective application of information technology in higher education and has published widely on that topic.

Johnson has more than 25 years of experience in higher education, having served as a faculty member, senior executive, and college president. He has been recognized for his research by the American Association of Community Colleges and the American Association of University Administrators. His three-year study of the use of computers in developmental education remains the largest formal investigation of computer-based instruction in community colleges to date.

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Summary

EDUCAUSE Vice President Diana Oblinger will moderate Larry Johnson’s Web Seminar on the 2006 Horizon Report.

The annual Horizon Report is a collaborative effort between the NMC and the ELI. Each year, the report identifies and describes six areas of emerging technology likely to have a significant impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression in higher education within a year or less; two to three years; and four to five years.

The areas of emerging technology cited for 2006 are:

Social computing
Personal broadcasting
Cell-phone-accessible educational content and services
Educational gaming
Augmented reality and enhanced visualization
Context-aware environments and devices

In this seminar, Johnson will discuss the trends identified in the 2006 report and what they may mean for your institution’s efforts to use technology to support effective learning. He will also describe the process behind the report’s development, NMC’s Horizon Project.

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