2008 Horizons Report

The 2008 Horizon report is definitely worth a read - and maybe even a discussion at your institution.

http://horizon.nmc.org/wiki/Main_Page

Would be interesting to correlate the trends discussed in the report with your divisions/departments learning goals - and then tools that match to the trends and learning goals. May expose some gaps in our current models, systems, expertise etc.

Here are the ideas I shared with my colleagues at Quinnipiac University Online and the College of Professional Studies based on the report:

For instance:

- I don't think we are doing anything with having our students create projects using video. This is despite the fact that cheap flash based video cameras are becoming ubiquitous. Could we think of a pilot course.....where we fund the purchase of $50 video cameras for students and have projects made with videos.

- Mobile...Are we developing expertise in having our content played on devices outside the browser? Can we come up with specific courses or projects where we can experiment with this...so we develop some expertise and learn pros and cons.

- Social: Our courses, faculty, and students remained siloed. How can we figure out how to increase exchange and visibility across these domains.