The document discusses the 2008 Horizon Report, which identifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on education over the next five years. The report is produced through an extensive research process involving an international advisory board. It groups technologies into three categories based on their expected time to adoption in mainstream education: technologies likely to become established within one year (Horizon 1), two to three years (Horizon 2), and three to five years (Horizon 3). The 2008 report identified grassroots video, collaboration webs, mobile broadband, data mashups, collective intelligence and social operating systems as important emerging technologies.

1. http://www.flickr.com/photos/alaw168/324768577/ What’s On Your Horizon? A conversation about the 2008 NMC Horizon Report with Scott Leslie, BCcampus

2. About The Horizon Report

3. Horizon Reports 2004-2007

4. The Advisory Board

5. research dialog The Process ( http://horizon.nmc.org/wiki/Main_Page )

6. hz08 tag

9. Not About Being “Right” creative commons licensed flickr photo by dogfaceboy

10. Time to Adoption != Time To Viable creative commons licensed flickr photo by dogfaceboy

19. The 2008 Short List

24. Horizon 2 – Data Mashups http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/brian/archives/040266.php

26. Horizon 3 – Social Operating Systems

27. After Five Years: The Metatrends

28. Research Agenda http:// horizon.nmc.org/wiki/Research_Agenda

29. K-12 Horizon Project http://horizonproject2008.wikispaces.com/