Comprised of four sections: overall developments; corporate training and development; higher education; and K-12 education, this chapter synthesizes the findings of major annual reports including ASTDs, "State of the Industry Report;" the, "EDUCAUSE Core Data Service Fiscal Year 2008 Summary Report;" "The ECAR study of undergraduate students and information technology;" Education Week's, "Technology Counts 2010;" The New Media Consortium and the Consortium for School Networkings' "The 2010 Horizon Report: K-12 Edition;" Project Tomorrow's "Learning in the 21st Century: 2009 Trends Update;" and The Kaiser Family Foundation's "Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds." The authors describe the economy's impact on instructional technology and comment on the importance of online learning mobile devices, the current state of online learning, and the continued interest in and use of Web 2.0 and social networking sites for educational purposes. [For the complete volume, "Educational Media and Technology Yearbook, Volume 36, 2011," see ED597737.]