EDUCAUSE Review Articles and Handheld and Mobile Computing

Focusing on “imagining the future,” the EDUCAUSE Evolving Technologies Committee looked at seven technologies and trends of 2007: the Web, Google Apps, Web conferencing, m-learning, 3D printing, virtualization, and information lifecycle management and physical storage technologies for digital.

The author points out the positives and negatives to students having internet and computer access during class.

With directed effort, some ingenuity, and a future-focused vision, colleges and universities should be able to identify and leverage existing technologies with which to build aspects of "future" campus learning spaces—today.

In this article, first published in 1999, the author looked to past trends in hardware, software, networking, and education, presciently extrapolated where these trends were going and what their broad implications might be for higher education, and predicted some still-to-be-realized models for the future.

Focusing on "pioneering," the EDUCAUSE Evolving Technologies Committee looked at six technologies and trends—Web 2.0 applications, cell phones, vortals, podcasting, open-source learning management systems, and wireless—and considered how higher education institutions can prepare not only for this rich content but also for that yet to come.

With mobile networks and services in the United States at the beginning of broadband and broad-scale adoption, mobile learning represents the next step in a long tradition of technology-mediated learning. The good news is that many of the antecedents of mobile learning have prepared us for the journey ahead.

The author discusses the FCC's recently issued Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) for IP-enabled services.