Presentation of the conclusions of 2012 iberoamerican edition of the Horizon Project. The report "Technology outlook: Higher Education in Iberiamerica 2012-2017" identifies the technologies with a great potential of impact in iberoamerican higher education, as well as the trends and challenges that iberoamerican universities will face in the coming years.

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Technology outlook:
Higher Education in Iberoamerica 2012-2017
NMC 2012 Summer Conference
12-15 June.

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Intention
The Horizon Report Ib is a joint initiative of the eLearn Center, UOC
and the New Media Consortium.
The Iberoamerican edition of the Horizon Report shares with the rest of
reports the intention of:
• Describing new and emerging practices and technologies in education.
• Describing “change forces” that may affect teaching, learning, research
and information management.
The Horizon Report.Ib is focused on the specificities
of higher education in Iberoamerican countries.

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Introduction
It’s a forecast targeting twelve emerging technologies, as well as the key
challenges and trends associated to them, considered to have a great
impact on higher education in Latin American countries, Spain and
Portugal during next 5 years.
The selected technologies are distributed in three horizons according to
the time to adoption:
One year or less
Two to three years
Four to five years

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Introduction
The first edition of the Iberoamerican
Horizon Report took place in 2010.

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Advisory Board
45 experts in the innovative use of
technology in education from 10 Latin
American countries, Spain and Portugal
have participated in the Advisory Board the
Horizon Report.Ib 2012.
The diversity of profiles and trajectories of
members of the AB has been crucial in order to
build a global and local view of the heterogeneous
reality of the iberoamerican countries.

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Methodology
The methodology used is an adaptation of the Delphi technique: a
consultation with experts in progressive degrees of depth.
From the beginning, the AB members have collaborated online through
the wiki http://ibero.wiki.nmc.org/

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Methodology
The selection of the emerging technologies as well
as the key challenges and trends was done through
a vote.
The wording of the draft report has been in charge of the project
coordination team. This first version has been reviewed by the AB. After
the approval, the Horizon Report: Iberoamerican edition 2012 will be
published.

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Emerging technologies
One year or less Two to three years Four to five years
Open Content Personal Learning Learning Analytics
Mobile Apps MOOCs
Semantic Apps
Cloud Computing
Augmented Reality
Collaborative
Environments
Tablets
Game-Based

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Emerging technologies
One year or less
OPEN CONTENT
Understanding of learning as knowledge building process rather than
information transmission.
Increasing amount of
open educational repositories
Open diffusion, open collaboration, open education,
personalization, information updating
Challenges: cultural change, language,
management, content validation and copyright

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Emerging technologies
One year or less
MOBILE APPS
Access to information anytime, anywhere allows
a flexible and personalized learning experience,
in which the context is important.
Challenges: lack of educational strategies adapted to
ergonomics and functionality of equipment.

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Emerging technologies
One year or less
CLOUD COMPUTING
It is a paradigm in which information is stored permanently in Web servers.
It offers a greater flexibility to teachers and
students, as well as to institutions.
Challenges: connectivity and loose of control of the service and
the contents.

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Emerging technologies
One year or less
COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS
Team working and collaboration is a key skill in current societies.
Collaborative problem solving and project based learning in
context.
Eliminates hierarchies and promotes horizontal relationships.
Trends: use of collaborative environments for assisting teaching and
learning processes, team work, professional development and
collaborative research.

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Emerging technologies
Two to three years
PERSONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
PLE are designed according to each user’s goals and it allows self-directed
and groupal learning, with a great capacity for flexibility and customization.
Students are placed at the centre and are
supposed to take an active role in their
learning process.
Challenges: lack of definition, need of technical solutions,
as well as pedagogical strategies.

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Emerging technologies
Two to three years
TABLETS
They combine characteristics of laptops, smartphones and tablet pc with
thousands of apps that allow for a more personalized experience.
Its great portability and rich user experience encourages
learning beyond the times and spaces of class.
Encourages cross learning of basic digital competence.

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Emerging technologies
Two to three years
GAME-BASED LEARNING
Integration of digital games and the use of learning strategies based on the
game in educational experiences.
High immersive and interactive spaces.
Promotion of analysis, strategic thinking, collaboration
and problem-solving.
Allows user-centered learning, that is contextualized
and significant.

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Emerging technologies
Two to three years
GEOLOCATION
Increasingly, the devices we carry with us can locate our position with
coordinates.
In m-learning projects, geolocation offers an experiential
approach to learning linked to the context.
Appearance of new forms of mapping.
Challenges: need of a widespread use of smart phones and
reduction of connectivity costs.

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Emerging technologies
Four to five years
LEARNING ANALYTICS
They consist of the interpretation of a wide range of data produced and
collected on the students to focus on their academic progression.
Personalize learning according to the students’
needs and interests.
Development of a process of continuous
improvement.

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Emerging technologies
Four to five years
MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSES (MOOCs)
A MOOC is an open course where the participants are distributed and
course materials also are dispersed across the web. It has a minimalist
structure which allows users to create its own learning path.
MOOCs use the network as structure while adopting
an open condition of learning
.

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Emerging technologies
Four to five years
SEMANTIC APPS
The promise of these applications is to help us to find and use
connections among data that already exist, but are hidden in the context
of the information on the web.
Facilitates organization and more efficient search
of disperse knowledge in Ib. Closely related with
other technologies moving fast in Iberoamerica.

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Emerging technologies Keiichi Matsuda, “Augmented (hyper) Reality:
Domestic Robocop“
Four to five years
AUGMENTED REALITY
It introduces the user in an “artificial” environment but without separating
him from physical reality and without replacing it, allowing interaction with
virtual objects.
Mobile devices, geolocation,
Video and social networks
Easy, accessible, portable and affordable for anyone who has a
smartphone … not everyone in Iberoamerica

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Top Five Trends
•People expect to be able to work, learn, and study whenever
and wherever they want.
•The abundance of resources and relationships made easily
accessible via the Internet is increasingly challenging us to revisit
our roles as educators.
•Changes in university teaching are causing many universities to
consider academic training as a key element in ensuring the quality
of instruction.

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Top Five Trends
•The role of technology in the social and civil empowerment of youth
is more and more important.
•A growing formative-educational culture focuses on the centrality
of student learning and is fundamentally founded on the use of
technologies.

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Trends in the 2012 Horizon Reports
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People expect to be able to work, learn, People expect to be able to work, learn,
and study whenever and wherever they and study whenever and wherever they
want. want.
The abundance of resources and The technologies we use are increasingly
relationships made easily accessible via cloud-based, and our notions of IT support
the Internet is increasingly challenging us are decentralized.
to revisit our roles as educators
Changes in university teaching are causing The world of work is increasingly
many universities to consider academic collaborative, driving changes in the way
training as a key element in ensuring the student projects are structured.
quality of instruction.

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Key Challenges
The following challenges have been listed as the most likely to cause a significant impact
on teaching, learning, research and information management in the coming years:
• We need to move institutional structures towards the knowledge
society, and away from the postindustrial society.
•Most academics are not using new compelling technologies for
learning and teaching, nor for organizing their own research.
•Digital media literacy continues its rise in importance as a key
skill in every discipline and profession.

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Key Challenges
•Ubiquitous learning requires that universities be available to their
students at any time and any place.
• The demand for personalized learning is not adequately
supported by current technology or practices.

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Key Challenges in the 2012 Horizon Reports
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We need to move institutional structures Economic pressures and new models of
towards the knowledge society, and away education are bringing unprecedented
from the postindustrial society. competition to the traditional models of
tertiary education.
Most academics are not using new Appropriate metrics of evaluation lag
compelling technologies for learning and behind the emergence of new scholarly
teaching, nor for organizing their own forms of authoring, publishing, and
research. researching.
Digital media literacy continues its rise in Digital media literacy continues its rise in
importance as a key skill in every discipline importance as a key skill in every discipline
and profession. and profession.

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Finally…
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