2006 NMC Horizon Report on Emerging Technologies

The 2006 NMC Horizon Report on their Emerging Technologies Initiative highlights six technologies that the underlying research suggests will become very important to higher education over the next one to five years:

"Social computing, personal broadcasting, the phones in their pockets, educational gaming, augmented reality and enhanced visualization, context-aware environments and devices"

The report briefly describes each of the six technologies and provides examples.

The Emerging Technologies Initiative focuses on expanding the boundaries of teaching, learning and creative expression by applying new tools in new contexts.