2009 Horizon Report

The 2009 Horizon Report, released at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida, spotlights six emerging technologies that are likely to have a significant impact on higher education in the next one to five years, presenting an overview accompanied by examples and suggested readings for each technology.

The report is based on research by the New Media Consortium (NMC) and is a collaborative effort of the NMC and ELI.
The areas of emerging technology cited for 2009 are:

• Mobiles (i.e., mobile devices)
• Cloud computing
• Geo-everything (i.e., geo-tagging)
• The personal web• Semantic-aware applications
• Smart objects

Each section of the report provides live Web links to examples and additional readings.
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Source: EDUCAUSE