Showing posts with label Innovative technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Innovative technology. Show all posts

Sunday, October 27, 2013

Reflecting Back to AT&T Ads that Predicted the Future

Students in one the classes I teach studied and researched telehealth this past week.  On shared memories of a series of "You Will" adds that AT&T ran in 1993-4, which predicted the future of technology we use today.  See the video embedded from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MnQ8EkwXJ0&feature=youtu.be below.



Thursday, February 7, 2013

2013 Horizon Report Available

The 2013 Horizon Report from New Media Consortium (NMC) and Educause was just released.  You can download it from http://www.nmc.org/publications/2013-horizon-report-higher-ed . The visionary report reviews changes in technology that we can expect over the next 1-5 years.  The topics discussed are:
  • 1 year or less time 
    • Massively open online courses (MOOCs)  There will be a special issue of JOLT on MOOCs
    • Tablet computing
  • 2-3 years
    • Game and gamification (application of game mechanics, such as Foursquare) based learning
    • Learning analytics
  • 4-5 years
    • 3-D printing
    • Wearable technology
The Horizon Report is always an exciting read!