It’s that time of year – the Horizon Project Higher Education trends, 2016 edition, have just been announced. In addition, you are invited to submit your projects, policies, and initiatives that reflect those topics to the New Media Consortium (NMC).
Disclosure: I served on the advisory group to this report and am also serving on the NMC Board.
–Joan Lippincott, CNI
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Posting on behalf of the New Media Consortium: The 2016 Horizon Project Higher Education expert panel has spoken! They have just selected the six key trends, six significant challenges, and six important developments in educational technology that will be featured in the upcoming NMC Horizon Report > 2016 Higher Education Edition, to be released at the ELI Annual Meeting in February. The project and resulting report is a collaboration with the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). These are the topic poised to have a major impact on teaching, learning, and creative inquiry in higher education across the globe.
Check out a summary of results below, and you can find helpful definitions and discussions of each on the official project wiki. Then it’s your turn! We’re looking for innovative projects, policies, and leadership initiatives that reflect these topics in action. Submit your exemplary work at go.nmc.org/projects
I. Key Trends Accelerating Higher Education Technology Adoption
Long-Term Impact Trends: Accelerating technology adoption in Higher Education for five or more years
- Advancing Cultures of Change and Innovation
- Rethinking How Institutions Work
Mid-Term Impact Trends: Accelerating technology adoption in Higher Education for the next three to five years
- Redesigning Learning Spaces
- Shift to Deep Learning Approaches
Short-Term Impact Trends: Accelerating technology adoption in Higher Education for the next one to two years
- Growing Focus on Measuring Learning
- Increasing Use of Blended Learning Designs
II. Significant Challenges Impeding Higher Education Technology Adoption
Solvable Challenges: Those which we both understand and know how to solve
- Blending Formal and Informal Learning
- Improving Digital Literacy
Difficult Challenges: Those we understand but for which solutions are elusive
- Competing Models of Education
- Personalizing Learning
Wicked Challenges: Those that are complex to even define, much less address
- Balancing Our Connected and Unconnected Lives
- Keeping Education Relevant
III. Important Developments in Technology for Higher Education
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less
- Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
- Learning Analytics & Adaptive Learning
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years
- Augmented Reality
- Makerspaces
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years
- Affective Computing
- Robotics
