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precedent march 2008 | headlines Six Emerging Technologies in Education Researchers with the New Media Consortium (NMC) have identified six technologies or practices that are expected to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within learning-focused organizations over the next five years. These technologies are described in NMC’s annual “Horizon Report,” which is produced in collaboration with the Educause Learning Initiative. worked on the go. New displays and interfaces make it possible to use mobiles to access almost any internet content — content that can be delivered over either a broadband cellular network or a local wireless network. DATA MASHUPS. Mashups are custom applications where combinations of data from different sources are “mashed up” into a single tool. The availability of large amounts of data is converging with the development of open programming interfaces for social networking, mapping, and other tools. This is opening the doors to hundreds of data mashups that will transform the way we understand and represent information. IP MIGRATION EXPANDS VIDEOCONFERENCING C 4 1 GRASSROOTS VIDEO. As the costs of production and distribution have dropped to nearly zero, many barriers to using video content in learning have disappeared. Rather than investing in expensive infrastructure, universities are beginning to turn to services like YouTube and iTunes U to host their video content. Students everywhere have access to an unprecedented and growing range of educational video content from small segments on specific topics to full lectures, all available online. COLLABORATION WEBS. Tools to support collaborative online work are easy to find and uncomplicated to use. Any networked computer can serve as a multi-function videoconference room, a gateway to a gathering in a virtual world, or a joint workstation where several people can author the same documents together. Virtual collaboration has been made increasingly seamless by a host of complimentary developments in networking infrastructure, social networking tools, web applications, and collaborative workspaces. MOBILE BROADBAND. Mobile phones are quickly becoming the most affordable portable platform for staying net- onvergence and the adoption of Internet protocol (IP) technologies are driving the videoconferencing equipment and service markets in enterprises, according to the newly published report from TIA, “2008 Telecommunications Market Review and Forecast.” This comprehensive report covers both consumer and enterprise markets, providing analysis, trends, and projections across a wide range of technologies and services. The report notes that companies are replacing legacy equipment with IP equipment, which drives growth in both equipment sales and service contracts. With IP systems proliferating, more enterprises are bringing U.S. VIDEOCONFERENCING REVENUE PUBLIC VIDEOCONFERENCING ROOMS ($ MILLIONS) YEAR EQUIPMENT 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Source: TIA SERVICES 1,090 1,125 1,160 1,195 1,225 TOTAL 2,060 2,200 2,335 2,455 2,550 5 2 COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE. The kind of knowledge and understanding that emerges from large groups of people is collective intelligence. In the coming years, we will see educational applications for both explicit collective intelligence (for example, Wikipedia and “community tagging”) and implicit collective intelligence (data gathered from the repeated activities of numbers of people, including search patterns, cell phone locations over time, and geocoded digital photographs). 970 1,075 1,175 1,260 1,325 6 3 SOCIAL OPERATING SYSTEMS. The essential ingredient of next generation social networking, social operating systems, is that they will base the organization of the network around people, rather than around content. This simple conceptual shift promises profound implications for the ways in which we think about knowledge and learning. GLOBAL IT SPENDING TO REACH $1.38 TRILLION Market intelligence provider IDC predicts that worldwide IT spending will reach $1.38 trillion in 2008, which is 5 percent over 2007’s total of $1.3 trillion. In the United States, growth is expected to weaken to 4 percent in 2008, compared with 6 percent in 2007. IDC announced that it has lowered its forecasts for IT spending in 2008, due to recent downward revisions to macroeconomic indicators and assumptions. videoconferencing in-house, installed in dedicated rooms, and, increasingly, on the desktop. According to the report, “IP reduces costs, makes systems easier to manage, and allows for higher bandwidth, which improves the quality of the transmissions.” Revenue from rented public videoconferencing rooms slowed in 2006 to a 5 percent increase following years of double-digit gains. With more companies bringing videoconferencing capabilities in house, the public room market growth moderated further in 2007 to 3.8 percent. Overall, the report predicts that public videoconferencing revenue will continue to increase, but at slower low single-digit rates. By 2009, however, they predict that the equipment component of the market will overtake the public room component, as more organizations install their own systems. For more information, visit www.tiaonline.org. 10 | AVTECHNOLOGY | march 2008 BRIEFLY www.avtechnologyonline.com http://www.tiaonline.org http://www.avtechnologyonline.com

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AV Technology - March 2008 Contents Precedent Corporate: Whose Job Is It Anyway? Education: There’s No Business Like Show Business Government: Technology and the New World Order Buying a Videoconference System They Will Actually Use AV After Hours The Sound of HD Conferencing Assembling the Design Team Concert Hall Acoustics on a High School Budget Audio Architecture Keeping a Watchful Eye Product Spotlight Tech Horizons Product Review New Products AV MO

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