New Media Consortium
What is the New Media Consortium?
Ithaca College is a member of the New Media Consortium (NMC), a not-for-profit consortium of learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies. Its hundreds of member institutions constitute an elite list of the most highly regarded colleges and universities in the world, as well as leading museums, key research centers, and some of the world's most forward-thinking companies. For nearly 20 years, the consortium and its members have dedicated themselves to exploring and developing potential applications of emerging technologies for learning, research, and creative inquiry.
The Horizon Report
The NMC's Horizon Project, is the centerpiece of its Emerging Technologies Initiative, which charts the landscape of emerging technologies for teaching learning and creative inquiry and produces the NMC's series of Horizon Reports.
In the 2012 report, the 6 technology trends are:
- Mobile Apps
- Tablet Computing
- Game-based learning
- Learning Analytics
- Gesture-based computing
- Internet of things.
In the 2011 report, the 6 technology trends were:
- Electronic Books
- Mobiles
- Augmented Reality
- Game-Based Learning
- Gesture-Based Computing
- Learning Analytics
In the 2010 report, there are 6 technology trends:
- Mobile Computing
- Open Content
- Electronic Books
- Simple Augmented Reality
- Gesture-based Computing
- Visual Data Analysis
The NMC at Ithaca College
To actively participate and take advantage of the benefits of the NMC and share with colleagues outside the college, there is a group Campus Advisory Board Members assembled in late 2009. One of the initial activities will be to discuss and understand the 6 technology trends and to brainstorm their implications at IC.
Anyone in the IC community can create an account on the NMC web site and can subscribe to their very informative technical and Pedagogical Discussion List, NMCTAB.
