October 9, 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.
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January 22, 2009
| The 2009 Horizon Report, co-published by the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) was released on 20 January, 2009.
The Horizon Report seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, research, or creative expression within learning-focused organizations. |
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Each edition of the Horizon Report:
- introduces six emerging technologies or practices that are likely to enter mainstream use in learning-focused organizations within three adoption horizons over the next one to five years
- One Year or Less: Mobiles
- One Year or Less: Cloud Computing
- Two to Three Years: Geo-Everything
- Two to Three Years: The Personal Web
- Four to Five Years: Semantic-Aware Applications
- Four to Five Years: Smart Objects
- identifies and ranks key trends affecting the practice of teaching, learning, research, and creative expression according to how significant an impact they are likely to have on education in the next five years.
- Increasing globalization continues to affect the way we work, collaborate, and communicate.
- The notion of collective intelligence is redefining how we think about ambiguity and imprecision.
- Experience with and affinity for games as learning tools is an increasingly universal characteristic among those entering higher education and the workforce.
- Visualization tools are making information more meaningful and insights more intuitive.
- As more than one billion phones are produced each year, mobile phones are benefiting from unprecedented innovation, driven by global competition.
The report is available for download as a pdf or you may view a web version.
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