Each year EDUCAUSE, the higher education technology association, and the New Media Consortium, produce the "Horizon Report" which details new technologies to watch and estimates their timeline for widespread adoption. Over the years, their predictions have been made with a good percentage of accuracy.

So what's on the horizon for 2010 and beyond? Between now and the next couple of years, EDUCAUSE and the New Media Consortium predict that mobile computing and open content will have the biggest impact and will be readily adopted. In 2-5 years, the focus will be on e-books and augmented reality. Further down the road, gesture-based computing and visual data analysis will play a key role in teaching and learning.

Want to know more? Check out the 2010 Horizon Report.