Earlier this year I was asked to participate in the Advisory Board of the Horizon Report. The Horizon Report Advisory Board is a group of leading educators from around the world who pool their knowledge and expertise to try and predict what the trends will be in the educational landscape in the near future out to the next five years.
I was in awe of the other educators asked to participate and humbled that they would value my input.
To gain consensus we suggested trends and then voted on which ones we thought would come to fruition over the time frames suggested.
Key Trends that we identified
- The abundance of resources and relationships made easily accessible via the Internet is increasingly challenging us to revisit our roles as educators.
- As the cost of technology drops and schools revise and open up their access policies, it is becoming increasingly common for students to bring their own mobile devices.
- Education paradigms are shifting to include online learning, hybrid learning and collaborative models.
- One-to-one computing is spreading to a large number of countries and regions. Providing students constant access to computers and the Internet is an education game-changer.
- People expect to be able to work, learn, and study whenever and wherever they want to.
- Technology continues to profoundly affect the way we work, collaborate, communicate and succeed.
- There is a new emphasis in the classroom on more challenge-based and active learning.
So here is what we came up with……
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less
- Cloud Computing
- Collaborative Environments
- Mobiles and Apps
- Tablet Computing
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years
- Digital Identity
- Game-Based Learning
- Learning Analytics
- Personal Learning Environments
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years
- Augmented Reality
- Natural User Interfaces
- Semantic Applications
- Tools for Assessing 21st Century Learning Skills
Embedded below is four minute video that explains it further and a pdf to download that explains each of the terms.
So what do you think? Did we get it right?
