Horizon Report

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Horizon Report
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Background

• New Media Consortium
• The Horizons Report

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Horizons Report Structure

• When? Time-to-Adoption
• One Year or Less
• Two to Three Years
• Four to Five Years
• Why relevant for Teaching, Learning or Creative
  Expression?
• Whos using it? - Examples

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Horizon Report Process

• Discovery
• 15-20 Non-widespread technologies
• Knowledge-gathering
• Vetting
• Exploration
• Knowledge Sharing

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One Year or Less

• Learning Objects
• Scalable Vector Graphics

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Learning Objects

• Any digital resource that can be reused to
  support learning ( NLII)
• simulations
• websites
• assessments
• videos
• animations
• calculators

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Learning Objects

• Why Relevant?
• Compatible with a learner-centered approach
• Repositories
• Need for new standards

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Learning Objects

• MERLOT
• Pachyderm
• Making Sense of Modern Art
• NMC Learning Object Initiative

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Scaleable Vector Graphics (SVG)

• XML-based description of 2D graphics
• Plain-text file format
• Scaleable output - zooming
• Searchable text
• Bi-directional data exchange

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Scaleable Vector Graphics (SVG)

• Why Relevant?
• Dynamic data links to and from controls,
  monitoring devices or real-time sensors.
• Rich simulations
• Zoomable maps
• Sciences, engineering, medicine, business, math
  statistics

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Scaleable Vector Graphics (SVG)

• Examples
• Animation of CD Player
• Interactive Web Mapping
• Adobe SVG Zone

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Two to Three Years

• Rapid Prototyping
• Multimodal Interfaces

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Rapid Prototyping

• Physical objects from 3D digital content
• 3D Printers in plastic, resin and metals

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Rapid Prototyping

• Why Relevant?
• Architecture
• Engineering
• Arts Design
• Mathematics
• Science

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Rapid Prototyping

• Examples
• 3D Printing at UMBC
• Biological Modeling

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Multimodal Interfaces

• Going beyond WIMP
• Visual, auditory, haptic, olfactory and flavor
• Frees users from traditional interfaces
• Makes the experience more real

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Multimodal Interfaces

• Why Relevant?
• Enhanced simulations
• Languages
• Art Design
• Medicine Health Sciences
• Engineering
• Adaptive support

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Multimodal Interfaces

• Examples
• cathSim
• Ramona

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Four to Five Years

• Context Aware Computing
• Knowledge Webs

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Context Aware Computing

• Uses contextual information to aid decision
  making
• Smart Dust wireless technologies

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Context Aware Computing

• Why relevant?
• Awareness of social situations
• Collaboration
• Smart monitoring
• Location sensing
• Just-in-time Information
• Highly personalized instruction
• Adaptive use

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Context Aware Computing

• Examples
• Smart Dust
• Dust Networks
• Input, Output Augmented Environments
• University of Washington

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Knowledge Webs

• Make connections between knowledge elements clear
• Distribute knowledge over multiple pathways
• Represent knowledge in ways that facilitate use
• RDF RSS

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Knowledge Webs

• Why relevant?
• Manage the flow of new information within
  disciplines
• Make new findings available to faculty and
  students in intuitive ways

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Knowledge Webs

• World Music in Contemporary Life
• EduRSS
• RSS readers

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Future of Horizons

• Horizon Project VCOP
• Horizons 2005

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• http//www.nmc.net/projects/horizon/