Horizon Report Australia/New Zealand Edition 2008

Phillip Long, Professor Innovation and Educational Technology, and Director of the Centre for Educational Innovation and Technology, University of Queensland.

The Horizon Project, as the centerpiece of New Media Consortium's Emerging Technologies Initiative, charts the landscape of emerging technologies for teaching, learning and creative expression. This is distilled and reported annually in the  NMC’s Horizon Report. Since the launch of the Horizon Project in March 2002, the NMC has held an ongoing series of conversations and dialogs with hundreds of technology professionals, campus technologists, faculty leaders from colleges and universities, and representatives of leading corporations.  This year the NMC in coordination with the University of Queensland, the University of Melbourne, and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, convened the first Australia/New Zealand Advisory Board to conduct the process leading to predictions of the technologies likely to impact teaching, learning and the creative arts here in the Australia/New Zealand region. The results of this project will be presented and placed in the context of the trends affecting emerging technologies for tertiary education.