2017 NMC Horizon Report

The 2017 NMC Horizon Report is out. From their website: "...an ongoing research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in education".

Laura Guertin has a nice summary of the key trends, significant challenges, and important developments as identified in the report.

Here's what I took away from it after reading the summary preview:

• University classrooms should look like real-world work and social environments to "facilitate organic interactions and cross-disciplinary problem solving" - that's considered a mid-term trend (3 to 5 years adoption). I have a suggestion: have a look at an elementary school classroom...it's not that difficult.
• It's all about measured and and personalized adaptive learning with learning analytics in an online setting - this is supposed to empower the student to take-charge of their learning. Here the online platform (aka Big Brother) adapts itself to the student and aggregates the data across a large student sample to adapt the broader curriculum. All this is controlled by the Next-Generation LMS or Next-Generation Digital Learning Environments (NGDLE).
• Engage in teaching and learning beyond the traditional school day = a Trojan Horse for online education.
• Mobile learning - good: pen and paper are mobile.

This is so trite and obvious...