Technologies Years 3-5 in 2014 Horizon Report

These technologies appear a bit further out.

 

• Games and gamification (2-3 years)
• GLO-BUS 
• Mentira 
• "385 higher education institutions now offer either individual courses or full degrees in game design" (source)
• game jams (like Ludum Dare) 
• Don't forget simulations, like Illustris 
  
• Quantified self (four to five years)
• Stems from health and other wearable computing examples
• Health Data Exploration Project 
• Tokyo Fitbit relationships research (abstract) 
• Virtual assistants (four to five years)
• MIT Media Lab BlabDroid 
• Her trailer or Siri vs a Scotsman 

 

Keeping up?

• TED Talks
• RSS feeds
• Chronicle: ProfHacker
• talk to students
• IT fixing stuff
• Magazines : Wired
• Blogs: Lifehacker
• IEEE
• colleagues
• campus IT summit
• campus Innovation Day
• Edudemic
• faculty showcases 

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2014 Horizon Report Symposium