Technology Outlook for Australian Tertiary Education 2013-2018

The report "Technology Outlook for Australian Tertiary Education 2013-2018" (Johnson, L., Adams Becker, S., Cummins, M., Freeman, A., Ifenthaler, D., and Vardaxis, N., 2013) was produced by New Media Consortium (NMC) and
Open Universities Australia. I found their short term topics of most interest. But in all of this I suspect the technology which will have most impact is the use of relatively conventional small scale, closed on-line learning for teaching teachers how to teach.

Time-to-Adoption:

• One Year or Less:
  1. Learning Analytics,
  2. Massive Open Online Courses,
  3. Mobile Learning
  4. Social Media
• Two to Three Years:
  1. 3D Printing
  2. Badges
  3. Information Visualisation
  4. Location-Based Services
• Four to Five Years:
  1. Flexible Displays
  2. The Internet of Things
  3. Virtual and Remote Laboratories
  4. Wearable Technology