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"The tenth edition describes annual findings from the NMC Horizon Project, a decade-long research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in higher education. Six emerging technologies are identified across three adoption horizons over the next one to five years, as well as key trends and challenges expected to continue over the same period, giving campus leaders and practitioners a valuable guide for strategic technology planning."

Thanks to Knowledge Works - engaging with this info graphic will help to question what we might need to address for the future of teaching and learning.

One cannot continue to ignore the reality, facts and figures that draw attention to the way in which students prefer to communicate, collaborate and interact. It is becoming more imperative than ever that we 'stop sleeping behind our teaching desks' and wake up to the affordances of Web 2.0 and reassess our methods of teaching and learning.

"Behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism are the three broad learning theories most often utilized in the creation of instructional environments. These theories, however, were developed in a time when learning was not impacted through technology. Over the last twenty years, technology has reorganized how we live, how we communicate, and how we learn. Learning needs and theories that describe learning principles and processes, should be reflective of underlying social environments. Vaill emphasizes that "learning must be a way of being - an ongoing set of attitudes and actions by individuals and groups that they employ to try to keep abreast o the surprising, novel, messy, obtrusive, recurring events…" (1996, p.42)."