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
