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NMC releases "Horizon Project: Call to Scholarship"

Posted October 12th, 2007 by Larry Johnson
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The New Media Consortium is pleased to announce today the release of the first Horizon Project Call to Scholarship . This document represents a synthesis of the ongoing dialog throughout the academy related to the six practices and technologies featured in the 2007 edition of the Horizon Report.

The annual Horizon Report, a collaboration between the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), highlights six technologies that the underlying research suggests will become very important to higher education over the next one to five years. The research-based effort seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within higher education. The 2007 Horizon Report, released in January 2007, was the fourth edition in this annual series.

This year, the NMC has undertaken for the first time a concerted, international effort to describe a research agenda and call to scholarship based on the six practices and technologies featured in the 2007 edition of the Horizon Report. The community was invited to participate in this process, contribute to the discussion, and help shape directions for future research in these topics across higher education.

This effort reflects and embodies the topic of new scholarship, featured in the 2007 Report and also the subject of a major NMC focus area initiative. The attached Call to Scholarship is designed to encourage a deeper level of understanding around each of the topics in the Horizon Report.

The Call to Scholarship is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License .

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