Our VC, Professor Patricia Broadfoot recently sent around to a few colleagues the details of this report which had been drawn to her attention. The Educause Horizons 2008 report is the latest of a series of annual reports Educause produce focusing on emergent technologies and assessing their likely impact on the Higher Education sector. The latest issue – like the previous ones – considers several emerging
technologies and the main research and pilot testing issues for higher education. So it is a really useful place to find out about upcoming technologies and is authoritative on the likely issues for the HE sector. So possibly some useful material for justifying research or development proposals? It may also provide some useful ground from which to discuss future collaborations. Their report is divided inot a consideration of the following technologies:
- Grassroots Video
- Collaboration Webs
- Mobile Broadband
- Data Mashups
- Collective Intelligence
- Social Operating Systems
Previous year reports have predicted the lead times to adoption of emergent technologies and it is worth looking through the back catalogue. JISC have just put out a call for institutional innovation with a deadline of the 17th July. this is likely to be too tight a lead-time for any collaborations that emerge from the Forum discussions, but there is a link on this page to the future calls coming up. this may be worth a look? Do we have relevant institutional strengths that are complementary? How might our institutions collaborate?
