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Emerging Technology Initiative

How can NMC and its members keep abreast of emerging technologies that may be important to our collective work?

This initiative focuses on identifying and understanding promising emerging technologies, with the goal of applying them to the creative process and to learning. The initiative is designed to stimulate systematic thinking about the future and its possible impacts, and is a fertile source of new ideas and major projects for the organization, several of which have themselves emerged as NMC initiatives. The Horizon Project is the centerpiece of the Emerging Technology Initiative, and its most visible product, the NMC’s annual series of Horizon Reports, has become one of the most widely read publications in higher education, with a readership in the tens of thousands every year.


  • Focus on: emerging technologies and how to apply them
  • Stimulate: systematic thinking about the future and its possible impacts

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The content below is related to this initiative and comes from various places across the NMC web site. Items are listed in reverse chronological order.

Emerging Technology Initiative

2009 Horizon Report Now Available in German

Posted June 24th, 2009 by NMC
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2009 Horizon Report covers in German, Spanish, Catalan, and Japanese The NMC is pleased to announce the release of the German translation of the 2009 Horizon Report. Thanks to the continuing efforts of the NMC's international colleagues, the report is now available in four languages other than English; this version joins the previously released Spanish, Catalan, and Japanese editions. The translation was generously provided by Multimedia Kontor Hamburg (MMKH).

New Translations Available for 2009 Horizon Report

Posted April 23rd, 2009 by Alan Levine
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2009 horizon covers in Spanish, Catalan, Japanes With each year, the Horizon Project broadens its global reach. The 2009 Horizon Report is now available in three altenate-language editions, thanks to the efforts of NMC colleagues. Since 2007, the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya has translated each annual edition of the Horizon Report into Spanish and Catalan. This year, a new collaboration with the Center of ICT and Distance Education (CODE) at The Open University of Japan brings us our first Japanese version of the Horizon Report.

E-mail/Calendaring Figure Big, so does Social Media in NMC Two Minute Survey on Daily Tech Habits

Posted April 10th, 2009 by Alan Levine
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clock faceOur latest Two Minute Survey asked people to share what their technologies or media that used on a daily basis, as well as which ones they used on mobile devices. As no surprise, e-mail and calendars figure prominently, yet at the same time "old" media like televison and newspaper are still imporant daily habits for more than one third of respondents. Half of the survey takers listed Facebook as a daily "thing" with Twitter not much farther behind.

See the full results at http://www.nmc.org/2minute-survey/daily-habits.

How to Participate in the Horizon Project

Posted March 22nd, 2009 by Alan Levine
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The Horizon Report series is the product of the New Media Consortium's Horizon Project, an ongoing research project that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, research, or creative expression within education around the globe. The first of the annual global editions of the Horizon Report appeared in 2004. In 2008, the Horizon Report: 2008 Australia-New Zealand Edition marked the first of a new series of regional and sector-based reports. The second edition in this series, the Horizon Report: 2009 K-12 Edition, came out in January of 2009. The Horizon Project, and its associated reports, examines emerging technologies for their potential impact on and use in teaching, learning, and creative expression.

What's on Your Horizon? TCC2009: Free global panel discussion on educational technology

Posted March 18th, 2009 by Alan Levine
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We are participating in a free, online webcast discussion of the Horizon Report, as a preconference event for this year's TCC 2009 Online Conference -- the 14th annual TCC (Technology, Colleges and Community), is a worldwide online conference designed for university and college practitioners including faculty, academic support staff, counselors, student services personnel, students, and administrators.

Free global panel discussion on educational technology in teaching and learning

Horizon Report 2009 K12 Edition Released at CoSN Conference

Posted March 17th, 2009 by Alan Levine
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The Horizon Report: 2009 K-12 Edition was unveiled at the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) annual conference in Austin, TX. This newest sector based Horizon Report identifies and describes emerging technologies that will likely have a significant impact in elementary and secondary education ( see NMC press release). Like all Horizon Reports, the Horizon Report: 2009 K-12 Edition (452k, 32pp) is released under a Creative Commons license

Presenting the report was Keith Krueger (CoSN), Larry Johnson, Rachel Smith, Alan Levine (NMC), and Horizon K12 Advisory Board members Karen Greenwood Henke and Darrell Walery.

CoSN Conference
See Also: http://horizon.nmc.org/k12

Several NMC Websites Now Mobile Ready

Posted March 16th, 2009 by Alan Levine
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We are exploring tools to make our web content more functional on the newest mobile platforms; the work on the main drupal  powered web site is going to take a bit longer (we are looking at iUi for drupal sites).

But a new WordPress plugin WPtouch makes it almost plug and play operation to generate an iPhone (and Android, Blackberry Storm we hear) formatted version of our web sites. So far we have converted the NMC Campus Observer (http://sl.nmc.org/) and NMC Conversations (http://web.nmc.org/conversations). The plugin provides a numberof customization options, including adding our own icon (which becomes the icon when the URL is bookmarked to the home screen).

When viewed in a normal web browser, the sites look the same, but the same URLs on a mobile platform provide these new looks:

Horizon Report 2009 K12 Edition

Posted March 11th, 2009 by Alan Levine
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2009 K12 Horizon Report Cover The first ever Horizon Report for the K12 sector describes the continuing work of the NMC’s Horizon Project, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies that will likely have a significant impact on K-12 education.

Download Horizon Report 2009 K12 Edition (452K, 32 pp) Creative Commons license; some rights reserved or view web version
7129 downloads as of May 10 2009

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NMC Profiles Six "Key Emerging Technologies" for Elementary and Secondary Education

Posted March 11th, 2009 by NMC
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2009 Horizon K-12 cover Austin, TX (March 11, 2009) – The New Media Consortium (NMC) today released the Horizon Report: 2009 K-12 Edition, marking the first time the renowned research project has turned its attention to emerging technology use in elementary and secondary education. The report, unveiled at the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) annual conference in Austin, TX, identifies and describes emerging technologies that will likely have a significant impact on K-12 education.

What is This?

Posted March 8th, 2009 by Alan Levine
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qrcode A little technology quiz. First one to decipher where this leads via comment below wins a prize!

 UPDATE Mary Zedeck of Seton Hall University was first to contact us with the correct answer. It is a QRcode , and when read with a scanner or device that can interpret these 2 dimensional bar codes, it leads you to the NMC web site on the Horizon Project. QR codes were highlighted in the 2009 Horizon Report in the far horizon section on Smart Objects.

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