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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, New Zealand, and Australasia generally. 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 2008 Horizon.au Report.
Horizon.au is a new project under the banner of the New Media Consortium's Horizon Project that applies the process developed for the New Media Consortium's Horizon Project with a focus on emerging technologies for learning institutions in Australia and Australasia.
Members of the Australasian education community are encouraged to follow the Advisory Board's progress as the discussion unfolds and to use the wiki as a resource and reference tool.
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Introduction to the Horizon.au Project Wiki
As you scan the sections below, you'll see a number of major areas with which you will soon become very familiar.
First you will find a carefully selected collection of press clippings, articles, reports, essays, RSS feeds, and links that 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!
We also publish live RSS feeds on the Project wiki to ensure that 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 RSS list. We especially need your help with Australasian resources!
Once we begin to look at the Research Questions in mid-July, the Sandbox will be our primary work area, and it will rise to a higher location on the page. There you will find links to the activities in which we will be actively engaged at any point in time. The Sandbox will change as we move through the various processes involved in sorting through the technologies and issues we will consider as we progress toward the final list that we'll feature in the 2008 Horizon.au Report. Status and process advisories will always help you know what we are asking of you each week.
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FIRST STOP: Press Clippings – technology news and reports that will inform our work
STATUS: The Advisory Board is currently reviewing the reports and articles in this section, adding new ones, and adding commentary.
These categories represent a carefully selected collection of press clippings, articles, reports, essays, links, and RSS feeds have been reviewed by the Advisory Board, with key articles that are tagged and moved to the top of each section. Please continue to add new ones!
- 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
Feeds and Tagging Tools – avenues to keep our secondary research materials fresh
STATUS: The Advisory Board is currently reviewing the reports and articles in this section, adding new ones, and adding commentary.
Horizon.au Sandbox – where we will do most of our work, starting in July
STATUS: Not yet underway. The Advisory Board will begin entering responses to the four research questions listed below in mid-July.
- Research Question One: Which of the technologies profiled in the 2008 Horizon Report
are least applicable to Australasian post-compulsory education? How would the adoption horizons change for these six technologies if they were viewed through a purely Australasian lens?
- Research Question Two: What technologies are not listed in the report that are important to Australasian post-compulsory education, viewed broadly? Please place your responses within these three sub-questions to help place each on an appropriate adoption horizon:
- Research Question 2a (next twelve months): What would you list among the established technologies that some institutions are using that all Australasian post-compulsory educational institutions should be using broadly today to support or enhance teaching, learning, or creative expression?
- Research Question 2b (two to three years): What technologies that already have a solid user base in consumer, entertainment, or other industries should Australasian post-compulsory educational institutions be actively looking for ways to apply?
- Research Question 2c (four to five years): What are the key emerging technologies you see developing to the point that Australasian post-compulsory educational institutions should begin to take notice during the next four to five years? What organizations or companies are the leaders in these technologies?
- Research Question Three: What do you see as the key challenges related to the adoption of emerging technology across Australasian post-compulsory education during the next five years?
- Research Question Four: What trends -- social, technological, or economic -- do you expect will have a significant impact on the ways in which Australasian post-compulsory educational institutions will approach their missions during the next five years?
The 2008 Horizon.au Project Advisory Board – guiding our discovery and selection process
