Horizon.au:About

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What's New? The 2009 Horizon Report: Australia-New Zealand Edition was released September 25, 2009 at National Broadband Network Symposium at Griffith University. The 2009 Short List has been produced. The Advisory Board completed voting on the Research Questions. The 2009 Australia-New Zealand Advisory Board has been selected and work is underway! Not on the Advisory Board, but want to participate in the Horizon.au Project? Share examples for the final report http://go.nmc.org/horizon-au-examples Tag resources in delicious.com for the 2009 Horizon.au Report as hz09au Add comments on the CommentPress version of the 2008 Horizon Report Australia-New Zealand Edition. Explore and contribute to the other Horizon Projects listed to the left Nominate yourself for next year's Australia-New Zealand Horizon Project Advisory Board

Horizon.au is a new project for 2008, launched 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 New Zealand.

Members of the education community "down under" are encouraged to follow the Advisory Board's progress as the discussion unfolds and to use the wiki as a resource and reference tool. It is the record of the processes used, materials referenced, research methods, and decisions that were part of creating the 2008 Horizon.au Report. It is meant to provide a deep resource of materials that will underpin the Report.

In 2008, the NMC introduced several new Horizon Projects focused on specific program areas, including Horizon.au, which will focus on emerging technologies and their impact on education through a uniquely Austalasian lens. The Horizon.au Report, scheduled for release in Fall 2008, will describe key technologies and trends likely to impact education across the Australasian regions during the next five years.

Members of the Australasia education community are encouraged to participate in the Horizon.au Project, as users of and contributors to the wiki, or by tagging resources in del.icio.us, using the Project's tag hzau08.

Horizon Report Archives

2008 Horizon Report http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2008

• Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less
  • Grassroots Video
  • Collaboration Webs
• Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years
  • Mobile Boradband
  • Data Mashups
• Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years
  • Collective Intelligence
  • Social Operating Systems

2007 Horizon Report http://www.nmc.org/horizon/2007/report

• Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less
  • User-Created Content
  • Social Networking
• Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years
  • Mobile Phones
  • Virtual Worlds
• Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years
  • New Scholarship and Forms of Publishing
  • Massively Online Educational Gaming

2006 Horizon Report

• Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less
  • Social Computing
  • Personal Broadcasting
• Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years
  • The Phones in Their Pockets
  • Educational Gaming
• Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years
  • Augmented Reality and Enhanced Visualization
  • Context-Aware Environments and Devices

2005 Horizon Report

• Near Term: Mainsteam campus use within a year.
  • Extended Learning
  • Ubiquitous Wireless
• Mid-Term: Mainsteam campus use within one to three years.
  • Intelligent Searching
  • Educational Gaming
• Long Term: Mainsteam campus use within three to five year
  • Social Networks and Knowledge Webs
  • Context-Aware Computing/Augmented Reality

2004 Horizon Report

• Near Term: Mainsteam campus use within a year.
  • Learning Objects
  • Scalable Vector Graphics
• Mid-Term: Mainsteam campus use within one to three years.
  • Rapid Prototyping
  • Multimodal Interfaces
• Long Term: Mainsteam campus use within three to five year
  • Context-Aware Computing
  • Knowledge Webs