This is a wiki resource for events concerning the 2015 Horizon Report for Higher Education, including the March NERCOMP symposium.

AGENDA

7:30am - 9:00am Registration & Coffee

9:00 - 9:30           How was the 2015 Horizon Report created?

• Methodology, wiki, and recent changes
• Our 2014 Horizon discussions 
• Glimpses of possible futures: automated journalism, A Day Made of Glass 2, privatizing public higher education  

9:30 - 10:30                    Key trends accelerating higher education technology adoption

10:30 - 10:45 Break

10:45 - 12:00pm    Significant challenges impeding higher education technology

12:00pm – 1:00    lunch

1:00 - 2:30           Important developments in educational technology for higher education

2:30 - 3:00           Discussion, and next steps on your campus

Issues and topics:

• Privacy. Silent Circle Blackphone. 
• Tangible learning.  For math, Cuisenaire rods. 
• Efficiencies in teaching and learning.  Baumol's cost disease. 

1. How do Horizon findings play out in your planning and thinking? 
2. How do you anticipate emerging trends?
1. Art "Inst-int"
2. get out of your discipline !
3. learn from students - get a wide range of ages
4. Gartner Research
5. K-12
6. marketing companies' reports (InsideTrack, JWT, Omelet )
7. reddit.com
8. annual time capsule exercise
9. Paleofuture
10. Be playful, enthusiastic 
3. Keeping up with Horizon on Facebook and Twitter (hashtag #NMChz) 

3:00pm                 End