2010 Horizon Report Profiles Six Emerging Technologies

The 2010 Horizon Report is the seventh in the series and is produced as part of an ongoing collaboration between the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI).

The 2010 Horizon Report predicts how emerging technologies will affect teaching and learning worldwide.

The areas of emerging technology cited for 2010 are:
Time to adoption: One Year or Less

• Mobile Computing
• Open Content
  

Time to adoption: Two to Three Years

• Electronic Books
• Simple Augmented Reality
  

Time to adoption: Four to Five Years

• Gesture-based Computing
• Visual Data Analysis

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2010 Horizon Report (The Web Version)
2010 Horizon Report (PDF)

Source: EDUCAUSE