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NMC Profiles Six "Key Emerging Technologies" for Elementary and Secondary Education
Posted March 11th, 2009 by NMC
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.
DMA Highlights the New Media Consortium and the Horizon Project
Posted February 28th, 2009 by Digital Media A...The Digital Media Academy, along with companies like Apple, Adobe and Sun Microsystems, is a Corporate Sponsor of the New Media Consortium. Given the relevance to our own mission of providing effective and relevant digital media training, we are pleased to support a leading organization dedicated to researching and promoting best uses of digital media in teaching and learning. One of major ways DMA participates in the New Media Consortium is at their annual conference.
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What Educational Technologists Should Know about the Horizon Project
Posted January 25th, 2009 by Larry Johnson
Last week, as we have done each January now for six years, we released the newest edition of the Horizon Report, a publication which grows in reach each year. (About 75,000 copies of the 2008 edition have been distributed so far.) Since the effort began in 2004, the Horizon Project has grown into a longitudinal study of emerging technologies with a great deal of supporting research and data, and a growing impact.
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NMC releases Horizon Report focused on Emerging Technologies in Australia & New Zealand
Posted December 1st, 2008 by Larry Johnson
The NMC today released the first in a new series of regional and sector-based Horizon Reports with the Horizon Report: 2008 Australia-New Zealand Edition. The new series is a 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, or creative expression within higher education around the globe. This volume is the first in a new series of regional reports, and examines emerging technologies as they appear in and affect higher education in Australia and New Zealand in particular.
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Six “Key Emerging Technologies” for Higher Ed Profiled in the 2008 Horizon Report
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Horizon Project on the Horizon Project: International Schools Collaboration
Posted April 12th, 2007 by NMCA collaboration among five classes spread around the globe involved students from grades 10-12 looking at the future of society and education via a lens of the 2007 NMC Horizon Report. The project is coordinated via a Horizon Project wiki

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Horizon Project
Posted August 11th, 2006 by NMCThe Horizon Project, as the centerpiece of NMC's Emerging Technologies Initiative, charts the landscape of emerging technologies for teaching, learning and creative inquiry and produces the NMC’s series of Horizon Reports. Since the launch of the Horizon Project in March 2002, the NMC has held an ongoing series of conversations and dialogs with hundreds of technology professionals, campus technologists, faculty leaders from colleges and universities, and representatives of leading corporations.
Each year, an Advisory Board considers the results of these dialogs and also looks at a wide range of articles, published and unpublished research, papers, and websites to generate a list of technologies, trends, challenges, and issues that knowledgeable people in technology industries, higher education, and museums are thinking about.
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2006 Horizon Report
Posted January 22nd, 2006 by NMC
The 2006 Horizon Report highlights six educational technologies that the underlying research suggests will become very important to higher education over the next one to five years.
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