2010 Horizons Report

The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the New Media Consortium’s Horizon Project,
a qualitative research project established in 2002 that identifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative inquiry on college and university campuses within the next five years.

In each edition of the Horizon Report, six emerging technologies or practices are described that are likely to enter mainstream use on campuses within three adoption horizons spread over the next one to five years. Each report also presents critical trends and challenges that will affect teaching and learning over the same time frame.

1. Executive Summary (4)
2. Key Trends (5)
3. Critical Challenges (4)
4. Technologies to Watch (11)
5. The Horizon Project (2)
6. One Year or Less: Mobile Computing (23)
7. One Year or Less: Open Content (18)
8. Two to Three Years: Electronic Books (12)
9. Two to Three Years: Simple Augmented Reality (20)
10. Four to Five Years: Gesture-Based Computing (7)
11. Four to Five Years: Visual Data Analysis (5)