Education Policy, Business and Technology

Change on the Horizon

Campus Technology: This time of year, we are usually thinking about change: current technologies impacting higher education, emerging tech poised to drive change, and factors that stand in the way of progress. Why? It's the season for the New Media Consortium's annual Horizon Report, a research initiative that analyzes emerging education technologies and forecasts their impact in the short, medium and long term. Or rather it was, until the organization abruptly ceased operations this past December.

It goes without saying that NMC's closure is a heartbreaking loss to the higher education field. Not just for the Horizon Report, but also for the organization's other research projects, conferences, and above all the community of thinkers that NMC brought together.

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