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Welcome to the workspace for the Horizon.au Project, which will produce a report focusing on emerging technology and its applications for education (broadly defined) in Australia and New Zealand. This space was created as a place for the members of the Horizon.au Advisory Board to manage the process of selecting the topics for the 2009 Horizon Report: Australia-New Zealand Edition to be known informally as the Horizon.au Report. (more...)
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Introduction to the Horizon Project Wiki
The Sandbox is our primary work area. There you will find links to the areas in which we are actively engaged. You will see it change as we move through the various processes involved in sorting through the technologies and issues we will deal with as we make our way to the final list that we'll feature in the 2007 Horizon Report. Status and process advisories will always help you know what we are asking of you each week.
You'll also find a carefully selected collection of press clippings, articles, reports, essays, RSS feeds, and links we've gathered to inform our work. The items in these areas are meant to grow – please add to them liberally from your own readings and environmental scanning – and above all, leave comments!
Next is a look back to last year's report. Included here are discussions from current and past advisory board members on the current state of some of the technologies we thought would be important a year ago. We'd like to know your views, as we are still within the adoption horizons for all of the technologies listed in 2008.
Live RSS feeds are a critical way we ensure we have access to the most up-to-date content. There is much material here, and with your help, it will grow in significance, as you add your own resources to the mix.
We round out the wiki with a special section related to the Horizon.au Advisory Board.
The Final Rankings
STATUS: The Advisory Board has completed the final rankings and the final topics for the report are listed below. Follow the links below to summary pages for the each of the six topics, as well as the final Challenges and Trends.
The topics for the 2009 Horizon Report: Australia-New Zealand Edition are:
Time-to-Adoption: One year or Less
Time-to-Adoption: Two to Three Years
Time-to-Adoption: Four to Five Years
Preparing the Short List
STATUS: The Advisory Board has completed ranking the responses to the five research questions and NMC staff prepared the 2009 Short List 
a draft version of the report that was be used as input to the final rankings. Follow the links below to discussion pages for the twelve semi-finalist topics.
Time-to-Adoption: One Year or Less
Time-to-Adoption: Two to Three Years
Time-to-Adoption: Four to Five Years
The Research Questions -- how we collected and ranked the data
STATUS: This phase of the project has been completed. Click on one of the links below for the raw data.
- Research Question One
- Research Question Two
- Research Question Three
- Research Question Four
- Research Question Five
Press Clippings & Reports -- technology news and reports to inform our work
STATUS: The Advisory Board reviewed these resources as part of their background research and is tagged those they consider important references with their initials.
- Emerging Technologies
- Challenges and Trends
- Published 'Technologies to Watch' Lists
- Technology in Popular Culture
- Reports and Research
- Miscellanea -- Stories, Examples, Food for Thought
- Essays and Interviews on the Future
Where Are They Now? -- a review of past Horizon.au Reports
We are still within the active horizons of all of the past Horizon.au Report. What has become of the technologies highlighted then? Are they as relevant today as they seemed they would be?
Additional Resources --new information that may be germane to our decisions
STATUS: The Advisory Board is continually reviewing the reports and articles in this section, adding new ones, and adding commentary.
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The 2009 Horizon.au Project Advisory Board – guiding our discovery and selection process
