The Horizon Reports are annual reports about the continuing work of the New Media Consortium's Horizon Project. The paper analyzed 54 emerging technologies in the Horizon Reports from 2004 to 2012 with the method of content analysis, and summarized several conclusions about the application trends of emerging technologies within the educational field. Finally, the author concluded several implications of the Horizon Reports for China's Higher Education Informatization development from the aspects of informatization environment construction, students traini...