THE DATA | TRENDING NUMBERS

Emerging Technologies & Practices and

Influential Trends, 2020
The 2020 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report identifies six emerging technologies & practices being shaped by
influential social, technological, economic, higher education, and political trends. Numerous exemplar
projects are leveraging these emerging technologies & practices in the higher education community.
EXEMPLAR
Centre for Extended
Learning
(University of Waterloo)
Technological EXEMPLAR
Trends OpenSimon Toolkit
(Carnegie Mellon Elevation of
EXEMPLAR
Digital Learning
• Artificial Intelligence University) Instructional Design and Inquiry
(Middlebury College)
• Next-Generation Digital
Learning Environment
Political Trends EXEMPLAR
• Analytics and Privacy Center for the Analytics
• Decrease in Higher
Questions of Learning and
Education Funding
Teaching
• Value of Higher Education (Colorado State
EXEMPLAR University)
COMPASS • Political Polarization
EXEMPLAR
(University of
Berkeley Online Advising
California, Irvine)
(University of California,
Berkeley)
EXEMPLAR
Analytics for Alchemy Project:
EXEMPLAR
Student Success EXEMPLAR Personalized, Flexible,
Siyaphumelela
Professional and Scalable Active
(Kresge Foundation,
Literacy Suite Learning
EXEMPLAR South Africa)
(Deakin University) (University of British
Combining Machine Columbia)
and Human Intelligences
for Intervention
(University of Maryland, EXEMPLAR Adaptive Learning
Baltimore County) EXEMPLAR
Adaptive Learning Technologies Adaptive Learning in
in Elementary Spanish
Teacher Education
Language Courses
(University of Wisconsin–
(University of Central Florida)
Whitewater)

Economic Trends
• Cost of Higher Education
• Future of Work and Skills
• Climate Change

EMERGING EXEMPLAR
TECHNOLOGIES Bizzy, the AI Chatbot
(University of Oklahoma)
& PRACTICES
EXEMPLAR EXEMPLAR
VR Academy Responsible Operations:
(Auburn University) Artificial Data Science, Machine
EXEMPLAR Intelligence and Learning, and AI
EXEMPLAR in Libraries
Centers for XR Exploration Machine Learning
AI Chatbot (OCLC Research)
Extended Reality, (Grinnell College,
Pilot Project
University of Georgia,
or XR (AR/VR/MR (Griffith University)
Boise State University,
/Haptic) Dartmouth College) EXEMPLAR
EXEMPLAR Enhancing Customer Support
Crime Scene with AI: Building a Canvas
Investigations (CSI) EXEMPLAR
Support Chatbot In-House
Virtual Reality Project VR App Time to Act—
(Northwestern University)
(St. Edward’s University) Emergency Care and
AR App AugMedicine— EXEMPLAR
Transplant Cases Digital Accessibility
(Leiden University) Teaching and Learning
EXEMPLAR
Mason OER Metafinder Resources
(George Mason Open Educational (Ryerson University)
University) Resources (OER)

Higher Education Social Trends

Trends EXEMPLAR
Open Pedagogy
EXEMPLAR
Ecotechnological
• Well-Being and Mental Health

Incubator Didactic Toys Lab • Demographic Changes

• Changes in Student Population
(North Carolina State (Alquimétricos) • Equity and Fair Practices
• Alternative Pathways University)
to Education
• Online Education

To learn more about the 2020 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report, visit educause.edu/horizon-report-2020.