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by Deborah Cooke, CASLS Online Learning Specialist

The New Media Consortium (NMC) Horizon project is an ongoing research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in education.  This year’s NMC Horizon Report identifies the integration of online, hybrid, and collaborative learning environments and the growing ubiquity of social media as fast trends driving changes in higher education over the next one to two years. The shift from students as consumers to students as creators and the rise of data-driven learning and assessment are mid-range trends expected to accelerate technology use in the next three to five years. Agile approaches to change and the evolution of online learning are long-range trends, positioned at more than five years away.

Additionally, the report identifies flipped classroom and learning analytics as technologies expected to enter mainstream use within the next year. 3D printing and games and gamification are included in the second horizon of two to three years. Quantified self and virtual assistants are seen emerging in the third horizon of four to five years.

Download a copy of the report here.