Game-based learning, mobile devices, and cloud computing will find a place in schools nationwide

eSchoolNews: The New Media Consortium that says that cloud computing, collaborative learning, game-based learning, and mobile devices are set to “take hold” within the K-12 environment within the next couple of years.

Cloud computing and collaborative learning environments are set to take hold in K-12 schools in the very near future, with mobile devices, game-based learning, and other education technologies to follow suit in the next few years, according to the 2010 Horizon Report’s K-12 Edition, released by the New Media Consortium (NMC).

NMC researchers examined 100 different technologies and whittled them down to the six most prominent technologies that are on the verge of classroom adoption in the next five years. Those six technologies were placed into three categories according to how close schools are to implementing them on wide scale.

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