New Horizon brief summary

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http://elearning.lse.ac.uk/blogs/clt/?p=556

This year’s report suggests the following will be entering mainstream use in:

One Year or Less

• Electronic Books
• Mobiles

Two to Three Years

• Augmented Reality
• Game-based Learning

Four to Five Years

• Gesture-based Computing
• Learning Analytics

The report also includes sections on Critical Challenges:

• Digital media literacy continues its rise in importance as a key skill in every discipline and profession
• Appropriate metrics of evaluation lag behind the emergence of new scholarly forms of authoring, publishing, and researching
• Economic pressures and new models of education are presenting unprecedented competition to traditional models of the university
• Keeping pace with the rapid proliferation of information, software tools, and devices is challenging for students and teachers alike