NMC Publications

The 2005 Horizon Report, like the previous edition, highlights six new technologies that the underlying research suggests will become very important to higher education over the next one to five years.

Download 2005 Horizon Report (400k, 28 pp)
17,750 downloads as of August 22 2011

This monograph provides practical suggestions and tips for authors of learning objects. Included topics are learning objects, pedagogical and design considerations, standards, metadata, inter-operability, and reusability.

Download Guidelines For Authors of Learning Objects (1.6Mb, 32 pp)
15,844 downloads as of August 22 2011

The Horizon Project charts the landscape of emerging technologies and produces the NMC's annual Horizon Report. This report highlights six technologies that the underlying research suggests will become very important to higher education over the next one to five years.

Download 2004 Horizon Report (560k, 28 pp)
5,857 downloads as of August 22 2011

An overview of learning objects and their value introduces an analysis of the systemic challenges inhibiting the realization of a functional economy in learning objects; the essential components of such an economy are identified.

Download Elusive Vision: Challenges Impeding the Learning Object Economy (811k, 24 pp)
1,864 downloads as of August 22 2011

This collection of summarized articles and annotated weblinks provides a primer on e-learning and learning objects; key organizations, large scale initiatives, and projects; and summaries of selected articles and papers.

Download A Traveler's Guide to the Learning Object Landscape (542k, 52 pp)
1,932 downloads as of August 22 2011