Drawing on insights from a global panel of leaders from across the higher education landscape, the objective of each Horizon Report is to shape decision-making among higher education professionals by helping them imagine a range of possible futures and think through the present-day implications of those futures.
[1] The Horizon Project was launched in 2002 by Laurence F. Johnson, CEO of NMC, and since the 2018 edition has been published by EDUCAUSE.
[2] Starting in 2005, the NMC-published Horizon reports were collaboratively developed by co-authors Johnson and Rachel S. Smith.
In 2011, Horizon Report downloads surpassed the 500,000 mark and worldwide readership approached a million people.
Following a modified Delphi method approach, expert panelists are asked to identify, discuss, and vote on the key trends, technologies, and practices they believe are going to shape the future of a particular domain within higher education.