[Yulpub] What's on the Ed-Tech horizon?

[Suzanne Lorimer]

 From today's issue of Wired Campus from the Chronicle of Higher Education:

A group of education-technology experts [The New Media Consortium and the 
EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI)] has issued 
<http://www.nmc.org/horizon/>an annual report on what they see as the 
biggest emerging trends in the next few years. The buzzwords this year, 
they say, are "social computing," such as the use of Facebook and other Web 
sites that let users tag content, and "personal broadcasting," such as 
podcasting and video blogging. In the next few years, look for an upsurge 
in the use of cellphones for education, the report says, as well as an 
increased use of educational video games at the college level. Two other 
trends to watch for are "content-aware devices," such as cellphones that 
turn themselves off automatically when they sense they are in a classroom 
during a class session, and "enhanced visualization," or ways to bring to 
life complex data sets in visual forms.

-Sue


Suzanne Lorimer
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