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• Discuss how a specific trend or development may impact teaching and learning.
• Describe how adoption of a technology moves through stages.
• Continue learning about future trends and developments.

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The Horizon Report describes key trends, significant challenges, and important developments that are likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in higher education. Innovating Pedagogy explores new forms of teaching, learning and assessment by examining ten innovations that have the potential to provoke major shifts in educational practice. These reports are put together in different ways, with distinct goals (see the beginning of each ).

We're not promoting wild predictions. As this document shows, they often go wrong. We're encouraging you to stay informed about new developments and their potential.

WATCH two videos: Horizon Report 2017 (at right) and Innovating Pedagogy (2015)

READ three of these selections - at least one from each document.

• The Horizon Report - August 2018 document
  1. Trend: Redesigning Learning Spaces
     
  2. Challenge: Improving Digital Literacy
     
  3. Development: Adaptive Learning Technologies
• Innovating Pedagogy - January 2019 document
  4. Drone-Based Learning
  5. Virtual Studios
  6. Place-Based Learning

READ the table of contents of the 2010 Horizon Report to gain some perspective. Notice the time-to-adoption threshold for augmented reality.

FIND at least one article, video, or website that relates one of the highlighted trends, technologies or practices to your discipline in some way.

From hype to adoption

Gartner's "Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies" charts visibility/adoption over time. The cycle (it's really a curve) starts with over-enthusiasm and moves through disillusionment to productivity. See the image at right.

• READ the Wikipedia entry and take a quick look at the August 2016 image or the 2018 image. Each technology is coded with a color indicating the pace of adoption.
• STUDY this multi-year view. Several specific technologies are highlighted in different colors. Follow them across the years and see how each progresses at a different pace.

OPTIONAL — Everett Rogers' Diffusion of Innovation is the source of categorizations like "early adopter". Gartner's Hype Cycles are rooted in this theory. Here's a summary of Rogers' work (PDF). See also the "Adopters" image at right.

JUST FOR FUN — watch Outdated World, a 2011 commercial from BestBuy AND Technology Trends, Dell's 2017 take on how higher education might look in the future.