Educause Learning Initiative (ELI) has just released the
2007_Horizon_Report (application/pdf Object).
The Horizon Report identifies learning technology that is on the horizon, thus the name. It identifies a classifies the technology emerging by how many years it will take to be main stream. Specifically it talks about tech that will be mainstream in the next year, the next 2-3years, and in the next 5 years.
Social networking and user created content are coming this year, if they are not already here according to the report. With the work that has been done in the past year to bring the wikis and weblogs to campus these as well as the knowledge gained through social bookmarking, podcasting, and other web 2.0 options.
It is nice to see that we are on target with other emerging technology listed in the report, as we have started conversations about Mobile Phones, Virtual Worlds and Massively Multipleplayer Games.