The 2011 Horizon Report – Malcolm Brown, Veroncia Diaz, Laurence F Johnson & Alan Levine

This session was to introduce the 2011 Horizon report to participants. There was a panel of around 12 people who were going to take part and whilst it was great to see so many people it was soon clear that this would mean they could not all speak for long and so some really interesting bits were not covered in detail.

There was an introduction to the report and the fact this was now nearly a decade of producing this. The process of developing the report was discussed. There was developed through groups of experts. The process uses a delphi technique where experts identify what is important and then this continues with voting and ranking until the list is more focused and becomes the final group of topics. In addition reports and projects are used but this year navigator was used and a wiki for all to share what is important so link to this site is:  http://navigator.nmc.org/

Each year there is an opportunity for people to contribute to this process from a range of areas and so here is the website link if you wish to volunteer https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/nmc.org/viewform?formkey=dGxOMGpSck1vNl9hdnBFMzJkQmFKZnc6MA&ndplr=1

The Horizon report for this year focuses on the following:

Time to adoption one year or less

• Electronic books
• Mobiles

Time to adoption two to three years

• Augmented Reality
• Game- Based Learning

Time to adoption four to five years

• Gesture-Based Computing
• Learning Analytics

This is when the panel then took over with people talking about their projects or areas related to the above.

There was speaker from http://collegeopentextbooks.org/ who discussed the need to explore having open books and how this will change publishing and writing in the future as well as how students use books.

There was speaker from Purdue University where they had been working on mobile technology.

There was then several people speaking about gaming and again there are links in the report which I have a copy of.

The discussion about learning analytics was more interesting and is becoming a focus here in USA . Lots of data and reports can be accessed but it is how is this used and why and what does it tell us. One speaker discussed some work he had been doing with others using SNAPP social networks adapting pedagogical practice. This system coverts data into diagrams and looks at relationships. Here is a link to a poster they have done http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/auckland09/procs/bakharia-poster.pdf