Horizon Report 2008 available in Spanish and Catalan
[05/05/2008]
The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia, UOC) and the New Media Consortium (NMC) publish for the second time the translation into Spanish and Catalan of the renowned Horizon Report. Every year, it analyses the impact of new technologies in higher education. In this fifth edition the highlighted technologies are grassroots video and collaboration webs, mobile broadband and data mashups, as well as collective intelligence and social operating systems.
The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia, UOC) and the New Media Consortium (NMC) publish for the second time the translation into Spanish and Catalan of the renowned Horizon Report. Every year, it analyses the impact of new technologies in higher education. In this fifth edition the highlighted technologies are grassroots video and collaboration webs, mobile broadband and data mashups, as well as collective intelligence and social operating systems.
The translation of the Horizon Report aims to make it available to the Spanish- and Catalan-speaking university community and to spread its reach as far as possible, building on the fact that the English version has tens of thousands of readers. The report analyses the potential for emerging technologies as tools for innovation in teaching, learning and creative expression in higher education. Highlights of this fifth edition include grassroots video and collaboration webs, mobile broadband and data mashups, as well as collective intelligence and social operating systems.
The technologies detailed in this edition are the result of the analysis and proposals made by an advisory board made up of more than thirty experts. This year, these include Eva de Lera from the UOC’s Learning Technologies department. The research and discussion process takes place via a wiki, where the work carried out can be consulted or even added to with examples of each technology or new proposals.
This edition, and the process followed to prepare each edition of the Horizon Report, is to be presented on the afternoon of May 21. Speakers will include Larry Johnson, CEO, NMC –via videoconference–; Begoña Gros, Vice President, Innovation, UOC; and Eva de Lera, Senior Strategist, Learning Technologies, UOC.
The UOC, a university that focuses on the intensive use of information and communication technologies in learning, is the first institution in Spain and one of the few in Europe to form part of the NMC. This consortium is a non-profit organisation that brings together more than 250 universities, companies and museums from around the world, including many of the most prestigious universities. Its mission is to drive innovation in education through the exploration and application of emerging technologies and media.
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