NMC Publications

The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the NMC’s Horizon Project, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have considerable impact on teaching, learning, and creative expression within higher education.

Download 2008 Horizon Report (286K, 32 pp) .
18163 downloads as of May 05 2008

La Universitat Oberta de Catalunya ha iniciado su colaboración con el New Media Consortium (NMC), después de unirse a esta organización el pasado julio, con la traducción al castellano de la edición 2007 de su reconocido Informe Horizon. El documento analiza anualmente el impacto de las nuevas tecnologías en el campo de la educación superior.

Descargue El Informe Horizon 2007 (232K, 32 pp)
215 downloads as of May 05 2008

The 2007 NMC Conference Proceedings features sixteen papers on topics from virtual worlds and gaming to streaming media technologies, digital storytelling, and more. The topics were ones nominated by attendees at the 2007 NMC Summer Conference held in June at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis.

Download 2007 NMC Conference Proceedings (2.6Mb, 133 pp)

This white paper discusses the premise that technology not only mediates interactions, but is actually changing the nature of communication itself. This release marks the first in a series of topical papers associated with the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia (formerly the Series of Online Conferences), which are designed to explore emerging topics in education and technology using social computing technologies to bring people together online in a way that offers many of the same affordances of a face-to-face conference.

Download Social Networking, the "Third Place," and the Evolution of Communication (78K, 9 pp) or view and comment on web version.
3381 downloads as of May 05 2008

The 2007 Horizon Report, just as has been the case with previous editions of the report, highlights six technologies that the underlying research suggests will become very important to higher education over the next one to five years.

Download 2007 Horizon Report (285K, 32 pp) or view web version.
32704 downloads as of May 05 2008

Based on conversations with NMC Directors, this guide addresses what it means for a center to have impact; describes ways to identify impact; and presents seven strategies for maximizing impact.

Download Maximizing Campus Impact: Lessons from the Trenches (130k, 23 pp)
696 downloads as of May 05 2008

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.

Download 2006 Horizon Report (552K, 32 pp)
31749 downloads as of May 05 2008

This monograph, the final report of the 21st Century Literacy Summit held in April 2005, presents an action plan for this emerging field, and details the strategic priorities and recommendations that were the summit's major outcomes.

Download A Global Imperative: The Report of the 21st Century Literacy Summit (1Mb, 32 pp)
11501 downloads as of May 05 2008

The 2005 Horizon Report, like the previous edition, highlights six new technologies that the underlying research suggests will become very important to higher education over the next one to five years.

Download 2005 Horizon Report (400k, 28 pp)
14375 downloads as of May 05 2008