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Monitor Institute
"We are part think tank, analyzing and anticipating important shifts in the rapidly changing context that leaders must navigate. We work to understand emerging trends and to identify promising new approaches and innovations in practice. "
The Heart of Innovation: The Top 100 Lamest Excuses for Not Innovating in 2009
Blog entry on reasons people give for not doing things
Op-Ed Columnist - The Updating Game - NYTimes.com
"It’s depressing to realize that my computer is more bent on self-improvement than I am. At home, my laptop is so ready to update that it can barely be constrained. The other day, I found three different pleas floating around on the screen."
Early Followers versus Early Adopters: The Use of Technology as a Change Lever Leads to Increased Learning and Decreased Costs in a Computer Fluency Course | EDUCAUSE
"Many early adopters of educational technology report increased costs, both in technology and in faculty time. This research shows how early followers can decrease costs by using existing on-line supplementary materials and a redesigned course structure that increases face-to-face contact and provides multiple means for students to learn course concepts."
Faculty Development for the 21st Century (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE
'However, just as the student population has changed and continues to change, so too are faculty members changing. Today's 21st-century faculty members share some characteristics with their students. For instance, computers were present throughout the educational experience of these faculty members, they likely had access to the Internet throughout their graduate studies, they may have taken online courses, they probably use mobile technologies, and they are generally comfortable with a wide array of electronic communication tools.'
2009 Shortlist - Horizon Project
'The Short List of Horizon topics, four in each Horizon, emerged from the first round of discussions and voting by the 2009 Advisory Board. The links on the right lead to the descriptions of the 12 topics, and also include the wiki-based discussion that fed into the final versions. '
Metatrends - Horizon Project
"While the currents and eddies of emerging technology are complex, it is clear that the Report has been following at least seven metatrends with some regularity:"
Emerging Technology Initiative | nmc
'This initiative focuses on identifying and understanding promising emerging technologies, with the goal of applying them to the creative process and to learning. The initiative is designed to stimulate systematic thinking about the future and its possible impacts, and is a fertile source of new ideas and major projects for the organization, several of which have themselves emerged as NMC initiatives. '
Horizon Project | nmc
'The Horizon Project, as the centerpiece of NMC's Emerging Technologies Initiative, charts the landscape of emerging technologies for teaching, learning and creative expression and produces the NMC’s annual Horizon Report. Since the launch of the Horizon Project in March 2002, the NMC has held an ongoing series of conversations and dialogs with hundreds of technology professionals, campus technologists, faculty leaders from colleges and universities, and representatives of leading corporations. '
Apprehending the Future: Emerging Technologies, from Science Fiction to Campus Reality (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE
'But trying to grapple with what comes next is a deep problem. Doing so is partly a matter of science fiction, which consists, after all, of the stories we tell about the future. Doing so is also an issue of complexity, since each practice, or device, or network, or application comes embedded in a nest of other practices, or devices, or networks, or applications. Emerging technologies are a matter not only of qualitative challenge but also of sheer quantitative overload. Web 2.0, gaming, wireless and mobile devices, virtual worlds, even Web 3.0 in all its unrealized potential—each churns out new developments daily and connects with other domains to ramp up the problem still further.'
Studies Explore Whether the Internet Makes Students Better Writers - Chronicle.com
"A new generation of longitudinal studies, which track large numbers of students over several years, is attempting to settle this argument. The "Stanford Study of Writing," a five-year study of the writing lives of Stanford students — including Mr. Otuteye — is probably the most extensive to date."
Horns of the Dilemma for Faculty -- Campus Technology
"At home, we are gadget-crazy. On campus, we educators behave as if computers have not yet been invented. Well, a bit of hyperbole, but isn't it odd that knowledge technology would so easily change our home and social patterns but have only a limited impact where knowledge is produced?"
Despite browser wars, the enterprise still loves IE 6 | Webware - CNET
"This news may come as a shocker to the tech-savvy folks in the house, but 60 percent of companies use Internet Explorer 6 as their default browser, according to Forrester Research. Meanwhile, your IT department spends a decent amount of time erecting barriers to prevent browser upgrades. Bottom line: companies need a browser policy, or they will risk productivity losses. "
Peer Review in the Google Age: Is technology changing the way science is done and evaluated? - E-LIS
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