The annual Horizon Report is a qualitative research project established in 2002 that identifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression on college and university campuses within the next five years.
In each edition of the Horizon Report, six emerging technologies or practices are described that are likely to enter mainstream use on campuses in the next one to five years. Each report also presents critical trends and challenges that will affect teaching and learning over the same time frame.
The 2010 edition was recently published by The New Media Consortium and EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative.
In the last 3 editions several trends were highlighted:
  • 2008 report
    • Grassroots Video (i.e. Video Sharing)
    • Collaborative Webs
    • Mobile Broadband
    • Data Mashups
    • Collective Intelligence
    • Social Operating Systems
  • 2009 report
    • Mobiles
    • Cloud Computing
    • Geo-Everything
    • The Personal Web
    • Semantic-Aware Applications
    • Smart Objects
  • 2010 report
    • Mobile Computing
    • Open Content
    • Electronic Books
    • Simple Augmented Reality
    • Gesture Based Computing
    • Visual Data Analysis

A few of them are particularly relevant for Peer-Learning, Experience-Sharing and Knowledge-Creation:

  • Collaboration Webs were expected to become mainstream in 2008-2009
  • Open Content is likely to become mainstream in 2010-2011, that is, NOW!
  • Collective Intelligence has a more distant time-frame, to 2012-2013

Collaboration Webs make it easy for people to share interests and ideas, work on joint projects, and monitor collective progress. With the Enterprise Camp all these things come into play, in a subtler way. A community is created around the Camp, sparked by the face-to-face collaboration experienced during the event and sustained by the repetition of the Enterprise Camp about different themes.

The Enterprise Camp can be a catalyst for existing communities in that it brings together in a face-to-face event the on-line community members, around the shared objective to create value transforming the individual expertise and experience into collectively shared knowledge.

Open Content focuses on collective knowledge and the sharing and reuse of learning and content, taking advantage of the internet as a global dissemination platform for collective knowledge and wisdom.The shared knowledge created in the Enterprise Camp does not remain confined in the event. It is disseminated through a wiki that collects all the knowledge created in different Camps, for the public use.

Finally, Collective Intelligence is the knowledge embedded in a community of individuals either explicitly, implicitly or tacitly. The Enterprise Camp is an opportunity to transform implicit knowledge, i.e. individual experience and expertise, into explicit shared knowledge. Additionally, the face-to-face interaction among participants, augmented by online interaction on the Enterprise Camp’s collaborative editing tool, allows also tacit knowledge to emerge and be captured by the participants.

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