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The 2010 Horizon Report Symposium
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NERCOMP in partnership with the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) and Boston Library Consortium (BLC) are pleased to present: The 2010 Horizon Report Symposium.
The 2010 Horizon Report [http://horizon.nmc.org/], the seventh in this annual series, has just been published by a collaboration between the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), an EDUCAUSE program.
The Horizon Report provides a roadmap of upcoming technologies that a distinguished group of researchers, technologies, educators, and futurists evaluate and select for their potential to transform teaching, learning and the creative arts. The report is released each January to provide a description of these technologies and places them in a timeline of immediate impact (within the next 12 months), mid-range impact (1-3 years) or long-range potential value (3-5 years). This presentation will summarize the findings from the 2010 Horizon Report with illustrations of their potential implications for the NERCOMP community.
Topics include major trends identified by the report: mobile computing, open content, electronic books, simple augmented reality, gesture-based computing, and visual data analysis. Other subjects which surfaced from previous reports and this year's preparation include new digital literacy, changes to scholarly communication, and the recession's impacts. Framing all of this is a discussion of different methods for apprehending emerging technologies.
This workshop will be a mashup of presentation, examples, hands-on work, and discussion about where we're headed in the practice of technology enabled higher education. Participants will leave with several take-aways: first, an environmental scan about important emerging technologies, situated in the academic context. Second, networking opportunities with peers in the region. Third, a better sense of how to approach emerging technologies.
Workshop Organizer/Host: Bryan Alexander of NITLE
Date/Time:
Thursday, April 08, 2010
9:00am - 3:00pm
Registration begins at 8:00am
Location:
Four Points Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center
1125 Boston Providence Turnpike
Norwood, MA
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Special instructions:
Your fee includes unlimited am and pm break service and lunch.
NITLE and BLC members receive the NERCOMP member rate of $130
Email ldimauro@nercomp.org or call 860-345-2081 for additional instructions.
Pricing:
NERCOMP Members: $130
Non-Members: $255
By clicking on the "Register" button below, you are indicating a commitment to attend and will be held responsible for the registration fee.
Your fee can be refunded if you notify us of a cancellation at least 8 days prior to the event via email to nercomp@nercomp.org.
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Additional Information
Event Schedule:
8:00am - 9:00am Registration & Coffee
Speaker: Bryan Alexander, Director of Research at the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education, NITLE
9:00am - 9:30am How was the Horizon Report created? Methodology & History
9:30am - 10:00am Mobile Computing
10:00am – 10:30am Open Content
10:30am - 10:45am Break
10:45am - 11:15am Electronic Books
11:15am - 12:10pm Simple Augmented Reality
12:10pm – 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm - 1:45pm Gesture-Based Computing, Visual Data Analysis
1:45pm - 2:30pm Putting it all in context: new literacies and professional communication strategies
2:30pm - 3:00pm Discussion, and Next Steps on Your Campus
3:00pm End
Speaker:
Bryan Alexander
Bryan Alexander is Director of Research at the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education, where he researches, writes, consults, and develops programs on advanced uses of information technology in liberal arts contexts. His primary research interests concern emerging technologies, mobile and wireless computing, digital gaming, and social media. Other interests include digital writing, information literacy, project management, futurism, and interdisciplinary collaboration. He blogs at Techne and is currently converting another NITLE blog, Liberal Education Tomorrow, into a crowd-sourced, Twitter-supported conversation on inquiry, pedagogy, and emergent technology. Bryan also maintains the NITLE Prediction Markets. Committed to exploring computer-mediated pedagogy, he researches and writes on the critical uses of computers and teaching in terms of the interdisciplinary liberal arts and the contemporary development of cyberculture.
Bryan holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and taught English and information technology studies as faculty at Centenary College of Louisiana. Bryan lives up in the Green Mountains of Vermont with his beloved family, many animals, and a great many trees. There he bakes, lifts weights, carries wood, and thinks about movies.
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Contact Information:
Lisa DiMauro
860-345-2081
ldimauro@nercomp.org
Hotel Information:
Rooms are available at the Sheraton Norwood, the conference location.
To make reservations contact the Sheraton Norwood at 781-769-7900 and request the "NERCOMP Room Block".
The room block for April 8, will be released on March 18, 2010. Standard queen guest rooms are available for $130 per night.
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