horizon report iberoamérica 2010

HORIZON REPORT:IBEROAMERICAN EDITION 2010

Intention

• Describing new and emerging practices and technology in education.• Describing “change forces” that may affect teaching, learning and

creative expression.

HORIZON REPORT: IBEROAMERICAN EDITION 2010

The Iberoamerican edition of the Horizon Report shares with the rest of reports the intention of:

The Horizon Report.Ib is focused on the specificities

of higher education in Iberoamerican countries.

The Horizon Report Ib is a joint initiative of the eLearn Center, UOC and the New Media Consortium.

Introduction

It’s a forecast targeting six emerging technologies, as well as the key challenges and trends associated to them, considered to have a great impact on higher education in Latin American countries, Spain and Portugal during next 5 years.

The selected technologies are distributed in three horizons according to the time to adoption:


One year or less

Two to three years

Four to five years

Advisory Board

The diversity of profiles and trajectories of members of the AB has been crucial in order to build a global and local view of the heterogeneous reality of the iberoamerican countries.


44 experts in the innovative use of technology in education from 12 Latin American countries, Spain and Portugal have participated in the Advisory Board the Horizon Report.Ib 2010.

Advisory Board

One of the expected outcomes of the report is to foster the creation of a network of experts focused on the educational possibilities of emerging technologies.


Methodology

The work of the AB members can be divided in two phases:


The methodology used is an adaptation of the Delphi technique: a consultation with experts in progressive degrees of depth.

– Online collaboration through the wiki http://ibero.wiki.nmc.org/

– Face to face meeting in Puebla, México on 14th, 15th and 16th of April.

http://ibero.wiki.nmc.org/



Methodology


The selection of the emerging technologies as well as the key challenges and trends was done through a two round online vote.

The wording of the draft report has been in charge of the project coordination team. This first version has been reviewed by the AB. After the approval, the Horizon Report: Iberoamerican edition 2010 will be published.

Emerging technologies

COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS


One year or less

SOCIAL MEDIA

OPEN CONTENT

Two to three years

MOBILES

AUGMENTED REALITY

Four to five years

SEMANTIC WEB




One year or less

Learning spaces that meet the optimum conditions for teamwork and collaboration in networked communities.

Activities based on communication and knowledge building

Forums and chats

Shared content editors

Dashboard publishing

platforms

Open CMS, Lms

Social networks

CSCL tools

Technologies and methodologies

Especially designed or spontaneously adapted




One year or less

Trends: use of collaborative environments for assisting teaching and learning processes, team work, professional development and collaborative research.

Democratization of the learning process.

Eliminates hierarchies and promotes horizontal relationships.

Collaborative problem solving and project based learning in context.




One year or less

Projects:

• Spanish Wikipediahttp://es.wikipedia.org

• Colombia Aprende. Collaborative projects, networks and communitieshttp://www.colombiaaprende.edu.co

• Docentes innovadores.net http://www.docentesinnovadores.net/

http://es.wikipedia.org/

http://es.wikipedia.org/

http://www.colombiaaprende.edu.co/

http://www.colombiaaprende.edu.co/

http://www.docentesinnovadores.net/




SOCIAL MEDIA


One year or less

Based on web 2.0 technologies. Allowing content production, exchange, classification, assessment

Access to all kind of multimedia resources for learning. Teachers and students as content creators.

Collaborative creation, review and assessment by teachers and students Change of perception about

Knowledge production

processesFree and easy use of tools by everyone:

Flickr, Youtube, Vimeo, Blogger, Twitter, Delicious, etc.


SOCIAL MEDIA


One year or less

Examples:

• Educamp Colombia, Social software for teaching and learninghttp://educamp.wetpaint.com/

• Video channel of UNDP Virtual School http://www.escuelapnud.org/portal/index.php/canaldevideos

• Facebook project. Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina) http://www.proyectofacebook.com.ar/

http://educamp.wetpaint.com/



http://www.escuelapnud.org/portal/index.php/canaldevideos






http://www.proyectofacebook.com.ar/




OPEN CONTENT


Two to three years

Understanding of learning as knowledge building process rather than information transmission.

Open diffusion, open collaboration, open education,personalization, information updating

Challenges: Slow access to IS, language, management, content validation and copyright

Increasing amount of open educational repositories


OPEN CONTENT


Two to three years

Examples:

• OpenCourseWare Universia http://ocw.universia.net/

• Universidad EAFIT. Postgraduate studies. Course Groups, Networks and Communities (Colombia)http://gryc09.pbworks.com/

• Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO). Open repository of academic production.http://conocimientoabierto.flacso.edu.mx

http://ocw.universia.net/



http://gryc09.pbworks.com/



http://conocimientoabierto.flacso.edu.mx/

http://conocimientoabierto.flacso.edu.mx/


MOBILES


Two to three years

Fast growth of mobile devices sales and consumption. Wide range of applications and services, most of them for free.

Mobile devices can provide Internet connection in remote areas, are more affordable than computers and easier to use.

Mobile phones, smartphones,

PDAs, Tablet PCs, e-readers…


MOBILES


Two to three years

Challenges: M-learning awakes a lot of expectations but its application still needs definition. Development of new content designed for mobile devices. Interoperability and standards of development valid for simple mobiles.

Can offer a more personalized, situated and flexible learning experience: one device for every learning situation, any time, at any place.


MOBILES


Two to three years

Examples:

• “Aprendizaje Móvil” Project of Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico)http://www.ccm.itesm.mx/tecmovil/

• Moodle4Iphone Project (Peru)http://www.youtube.com/user/moodle4iPhone

• Campus Movil projecthttp://www.campusmovil.net/inicio.php

http://www.ccm.itesm.mx/tecmovil/





http://www.youtube.com/user/moodle4iPhone






http://www.campusmovil.net/inicio.php





AUGMENTED REALITY


Four to five years

Easy, accessible, portable and affordable for anyone who has a smartphone … not everyone in Iberoamerica

It introduces the user in an “artificial” environment but without separating him from physical reality and without replacing it, allowing interaction with virtual objects.

Mobile devices, geolocation,Video and social networks

Layar, Wikitude, Tagwhat


AUGMENTED REALITY


Four to five years

Projects:

• EDRA Project: Graphic design. University of Chile http://www.proyectoedra.cl/

• Realitat3 (Booktexts)http://gryc09.pbworks.com/

Many possible applications in Iberoamerican universities, until now most of them are still experimental.

http://www.proyectoedra.cl/







SEMANTIC WEB


Four to five years

The promise of these applications is to help us to find and use connections among data that already exist, but are hidden in the context of the information on the web.

Facilitates organization and more efficient search of

disperse knowledge in Ib. Closely related with other

technologies moving fast in Iberoamerica.

Twine, Tipit, Wolfram|Alpha, SemanticMediawiki, Trueknowledge…


SEMANTIC WEB


Four to five years

Projects

• Law and conflict resolution. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) http://idt.uab.es

• Cultural Heritage. Fundación Marcelino Botin Santander and Universidad de Cantabria

http://www.fundacionmbotin.org/biblioteca/ontologia-del-patrimonio-de-cantabria.html

http://idt.uab.es/

http://idt.uab.es/

Emerging technologies in 2010 Reports

COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS MOBILE COMPUTING


One year or less

SOCIAL MEDIA OPEN CONTENT

OPEN CONTENT ELECTRONIC BOOKS

Two to three years

MOBILES SIMPLE AUGMENTED REALITY

AUGMENTED REALITY GESTURE BASED COMPUTING

Four to five years

SEMANTIC WEB VISUAL DATA ANALYSIS

IBEROAMERICAN HORIZON GENERAL HORIZON

Trends


Knowledge is "decentralized" in ways that affect production, distribution ... and reuse.

Technology is dramatically affecting the way we work, collaborate, communicate and move forward.

Technology has become a means to train students, a method to communicate and interact with them, and a ubiquitous and transparent part of their life.

Trends


Teachers - and many of the institutions where they work - are gradually losing their misgivings towards technologies.

Our way of thinking about learning environments is changing.

The perceived value of innovation and creativity is increasing.

The technologies we use are increasingly based on cloud structures, and our idea of information technology support is decentralized.

Key Challenges

Teacher training that facilitates the incorporation of the use of digital media in the teaching and learning.


The following challenges have been listed as the most likely to cause a significant impact on teaching, learning and creative research in the coming years:

The main challenge is managing change, not to revise or improve, but to transform the teaching, research and university management through the intelligent use of ICT to contribute to economic growth, human development and social cohesion.

Digital literacy has to be a part of the professionalization of the teachers.

Key Challenges

Integration of the use of the ICT for problem solving, creation of knowledge.


There is a growing need to include the use of new media in formal education.

Students are changing, but the educational practices and materials to support teaching evolve very slowly.

Integration of the technology to support the educational model.

Policy recommendations


The data and reflections arisen during the working process led us to go one step further and adventure some policy recommendations. The aim of the following recommendations is to open the scope of future action, rather than acting as concluding sentences:

Organizational change, institutional, systemic.

Training of trainers.

Linking formal education with informal education.

Policy recommendations


Linking formal education with Lifelong Learning.

Digital divide: physical access.

Digital Divide: e-skills.

About the future


The Horizon Report: iberoamerican Edition is a very powerful initiative to promote reflection and debate about the possibilities of emerging tecnologies in iberoamerican higher education.

Annual publication of Horizon.Ib Report.

Horizon.Ib Report as a working tool.

Creation of a regional expert network focused on the educational use of emerging technologies.

After this first edition, key aspects are:

Willing to participate?


It is our intention to open the working process of The Horizon Project: Iberoamerican edition. Like so, any person interested can:

Follow the Advisory Board online work:– http://ibero.wiki.nmc.org/

Contribute to the del.icio.us tagging:– http://del.icio.us/tag/hz10ib+video– http://del.icio.us/tag/hz10ib+virtualcollab– http://del.icio.us/tag/hz10ib+mobile

etc…

Nominate someone for the Advisory Board:– http://ibero.wiki.nmc.org/

http://del.icio.us/tag/hz10ib+mobile

Finally…


¡¡Thank you!!

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