What are the emerging technologies likely to impact on learning & teaching in the next 5 years? According to the 2007 Horizon Report (PDF) we might expect the wide adoption in education of:
- User-created Content
- Social Networking
in the next year or less… and
- Mobile Phone
- Virtual Worlds
in two to three years… and
- New scholarship and Emerging Forms of Publication
- Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming
in four to five years.
The report is worth a look, each section contains links to existing examples and further reading plus the del.icio.us bookmarks used by the writers. It’s quite US-focussed so perhaps add a few years on?
It’s a collaboartion between EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative and the New Media Consortium and earlier predictions are available.
I spotted it on SocialTech written by Josie Fraser who seems to be the only UK-based member of the 27-strong Horizon Advisory Board (the authors).
thanks for pointing out this really interesting and readable article. I hadnt thought about online gaming being an educational tool.
i was interested in the comments on social networking.
not sure i entirely agree that ‘the notion of an expert is being reconsidered’. in the past i am sure i remember reading that the Oxford English dictionary was originally authored by a society and eager people sending in slips of paper – some of whom were later discovered to be coming from broadmoor. who is considered an expert and what is accepted knowledge is perhaps always the case of issues of power and negotiation it will be interesting to see if examples of social sites which take off are those already run by ‘experts’ such as established faculties or if it can cause new ones to emerge.
as i have just been sent this example of delicious tags from the New politics network http://del.icio.us/newpoliticsnetwork so its obviously becoming more widely used. do you happen to know if any lse depts have such a site done by lecturers?
I’m not aware of any depts or courses yet but a couple of lecturers have certainly discovered it! We are running the Social Software class again in the e-literacy programme next week so hopefully more will follow…
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