Horizon report 2020

The latest issue of the Horizon report is now up on the Educause library.

There is a good infographic, summarising the various emerging technologies and trends.

This year, there is a change in how the report is structured. The familiar 'horizons' of xx years to adoption, anchoring past reports, are not used. Instead, wider social/global trends - political, economic, social, technological, and higher education trends are reviewed as the influences and future trajectory for emerging technologies and practices.

The usual suspects featured in pass reports show up but this time around, rationalised better against the wider influences listed above.

The main technologies are also reported in a broader sweep. These are:

• Analytics for student success
• Adaptive learning technologies - related to above of applying analytics to enhance learning
• artificial intelligence and machine learning - ditto
• Open education resources 
• extended reality - ie. XR = AR/VR/MR (haptic)
• Elevation of instructional design - to bring pedagogy into the planning, development and deployment of promising technologies.

All in, a good summary, as always of potentialities. This time around, better linkages to the many societal influences on how technology may assist learners. Plus the need to attain expertise in understanding the pedagogical issues related to introducing the many enablers of technology enhanced learning.