Chatham Faculty Technology Fellows

Each year, the Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education and creative expression over the next one to five years. The areas of emerging technology cited for 2012 are: Time to adoption: One Year or Less Mobile Apps Tablet Computing   Time to adoption: Two to Three Years Game-based Learning Learning Analytics   Time to adoption: Four to Five Years Gesture-based Computing Internet of Things

Students’ prior knowledge can help or hinder learning.

How students organize knowledge influences how they learn and apply what they know.

Students’ motivation determines, directs, and sustains what they do to learn.

The vast majority of faculty and students, for example, now use notebooks and netbooks as classroom learning tools (75 percent of students and 72 percent of faculty overall), as well as digital content (69 percent of students and 73 percent of faculty). Learning management systems were in use by a smaller majority, with 56 percent of students and 58 percent of faculty members reporting they use an LMS in the classroom.