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color:#1F497D'>Very informative and highly condensed information of a very high
quality is coming through here.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>I might set up a wiki for us to jump off/onto as we progress
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color:#1F497D'>Forest Hill College<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>www.fhc.vic.edu.au<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> elearning-bounces@edulists.com.au
[mailto:elearning-bounces@edulists.com.au] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Smith, Kerrie<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 16 November 2010 12:48 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> elearning Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [elearning] Top 10 strategic technologies for 2011
according to Gartner Group<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'>These are very similar to the 2010 Horizon Report aren't they?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'>Regards <br>
Kerrie Smith<br>
Executive Officer, Education Services Australia<br>
182 Fullarton Rd, DULWICH, SA 5065<br>
ph 08 8334 3235 mob 0402 892 055<br>
blogging at http://smik.posterous.com/ &
http://kerrie-smik.blogspot.com/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span
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elearning-bounces@edulists.com.au [elearning-bounces@edulists.com.au] On Behalf
Of ken price [kenjprice@gmail.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 16 November 2010 12:03 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> elearning Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [elearning] Top 10 strategic technologies for 2011 according to
Gartner Group<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:black'><a href="http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1454221"
target="_blank">http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1454221</a></span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Gartner
Group's forecasting might be useful to inform some educational technology
decisions. The information below is taken almost directly from Gartner's
press release. The last one looks like it could have been generated by a jargon
creation engine but the rest look reasonable. These of course apply to the
business world but the trends generally affect other sectors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:black'>The top 10 strategic technologies for 2011 include:</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:black'>Cloud Computing.</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>. Gartner expects large
enterprises to have a dynamic sourcing team in place by 2012 that is
responsible for ongoing cloudsourcing decisions and management.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:black'>Mobile Applications and Media Tablets</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>.
Gartner estimates that by the end of 2010, 1.2 billion people will carry
handsets capable of rich, mobile commerce providing an ideal environment for
the convergence of mobility and the Web. Mobile devices are becoming computers
in their own right, with an astounding amount of processing ability and
bandwidth. T<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:black'>Social Communications and Collaboration</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>.
Social media can be divided into: (1) <b>Social networking</b> (2) <b>Social
collaboration</b> (3) <b>Social publishing</b> (4) <b>Social feedback</b>.
Gartner predicts that by 2016, social technologies will be integrated with most
business applications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:black'>Video</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:black'>. Over the next three years Gartner believes that
video will become a commonplace content type and interaction model for most
users, and by 2013, more than 25 percent of the content that workers see in a
day will be dominated by pictures, video or audio.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:black'>Next Generation Analytics.</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> Increasing compute capabilities
of computers including mobile devices along with improving connectivity are enabling
a shift in how businesses support operational decisions. It is becoming
possible to run simulations or models to predict the future outcome, rather
than to simply provide backward looking data about past interactions, and to do
these predictions in real-time to support each individual business action.
While this may require significant changes to existing operational and business
intelligence infrastructure, the potential exists to unlock significant
improvements in business results and other success rates.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:black'>Social Analytics.</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> Social analytics describes the
process of measuring, analyzing and interpreting the results of interactions
and associations among people, topics and ideas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:black'>Context-Aware Computing</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>. Context-aware computing
centers on the concept of using information about an end user or object’s
environment, activities connections and preferences to improve the quality of
interaction with that end user. Gartner predicts that by 2013, more than half
of Fortune 500 companies will have context-aware computing initiatives and by
2016, one-third of worldwide mobile consumer marketing will be
context-awareness-based.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:black'>Storage Class Memory.</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> Gartner sees huge use of flash
memory in consumer devices, entertainment equipment and other embedded IT
systems. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:black'>Ubiquitous Computing.</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> The work of Mark Weiser
and other researchers at Xerox's PARC paints a picture of the coming third wave
of computing where computers are invisibly embedded into the world. As
computers proliferate and as everyday objects are given the ability to
communicate with RFID tags and their successors, networks will approach and
surpass the scale that can be managed in traditional centralized ways. T<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:black'>Fabric-Based Infrastructure and Computers.</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> A
fabric-based computer is a modular form of computing where a system can be
aggregated from separate building-block modules connected over a fabric or
switched backplane. In its basic form, a fabric-based computer comprises a
separate processor, memory, I/O, and offload modules (GPU, NPU, etc.) that are
connected to a switched interconnect and, importantly, the software required to
configure and manage the resulting system(s). The fabric-based infrastructure
(FBI) model abstracts physical resources — processor cores, network bandwidth
and links and storage — into pools of resources that are managed by the Fabric
Resource Pool Manager (FRPM), software functionality. The FRPM in turn is
driven by the Real Time Infrastructure (RTI) Service Governor software component.
An FBI can be supplied by a single vendor or by a group of vendors working
closely together, or by an integrator — internal or external.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:black'>Source: <a href="http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1454221"
target="_blank">http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1454221</a><br clear=all>
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-- <br>
Ken Price<br>
President, TASITE <a href="http://www.tasite.tas.edu.au" target="_blank">www.tasite.tas.edu.au</a>
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