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2007 Horizon Report Announced at EDUCAUSE ELI Annual Meeting

Posted January 22nd, 2007 by NMC
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At the 2007 EDUCAUSE ELI Annual Meeting in Atlanta, the New Media Consortium (NMC) has released the 2007 version of the Horizon Report.

This took place at the session The 2007 Horizon Report: Six Technologies to Watch:

The annual Horizon Report, a joint publication of the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), highlights new technologies for teaching, learning, and creative expression. This session will review the research and process behind the report and the findings of the 2007 edition. The 2007 Horizon Report will be officially released at this session.

More than 120 attendees overflowed the session room, and enjoyed a dramatic unveiling via a "Get Smart" theme featuring Bryan Alexander bringing in the names of the six horizon technologies secured in a briefcase.

Elwood Alexander Delivers the Goods

The presentation started with NMC CEO Larry Johnson's overview of the Horizon Project and the six technologies featured this year:

  • User-Created Content
  • Social Networking
  • Mobile Phones
  • Virtual Worlds
  • The New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of Publication
  • Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming

This presentation is available from slideshare:


Next, the audience participated in a discussion activity designed to seed the content for the new Horizon Project Research Agenda, an effort to describe a research agenda based on the six practices and technologies featured in the 2007 edition of the Horizon Report.

You can find a number of other resources related to this presentation from the EDUCAUSE web site at
http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=ELI07102