Horizon Report: Australia New Zealand 2009
Horizon Report 2009
The 2009 Horizon Report for Australia and New Zealand was released on September 25th, 2009 at the National Broadband Network Symposium at Griffith University.
The report is part of ongoing research by the New Media Consortium and aims to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative inquiry within education around the globe over a five-year time period
The report is available in web format and as a downloadable pdf [1.29MB]
The report describes six areas of emerging technologies that will impact eduction in Australia and New Zealand over the next one to five years.
These technologies are expected to have a penetration rate greater than 16-20% within:
- The next year
- Moblie Internet devices
- Private Clouds
- Two to three years
- Open content
- Virtual and alternate realities
- Four to five years
- Location-based learning
- Smart objects
Permission is granted under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license to replicate and distribute this report freely for non-commercial purposes provided that it is distributed only in its entirety.
This post from the Bright Ideas blog summarizes the salient points of the 102 page document.
