NMC Horizon Report > 2016 Higher Education Edition

The NMC Horizon Report > 2016 Higher Education Edition is a collaborative effort between the NMC and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). This 13th edition describes annual findings from the NMC 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 education.

The report highlights what is on the five-year horizon for higher education institutions? Which trends and technology developments will drive educational change? What are the challenges that we consider as solvable or difficult to overcome, and how can we strategize effective solutions?

Important Developments in Educational Technology for Higher Education

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less

• Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
• Learning Analytics and Adaptive Learning

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years

• Augmented and Virtual Reality
• Makerspaces

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years

• Affective Computing
• Robotics

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

• Download the NMC Horizon Report > 2016 Higher Education Edition PDF

Don’t Believe the Hype?

Gartner Hype Cycle 2014

Where would you put some of these approaches & innovations on the Gartner Hype Cycle? Please contribute your comments on the report and the innovations using the comments section below…

Phil

Source: NMC Horizon Report > 2016 Higher Education Edition http://www.nmc.org/publication/nmc-horizon-report-2016-higher-education-edition/