2010 Horizon Report: Australia-New Zealand Edition The Web Version

Larry Johnson Co-Principal Investigator The New Media Consortium Phillip Long Co-Principal Investigator University of Queensland Kevin Ashford-Rowe Griffith University Stephen Atherton Apple Australia Mark Brown Massey University Fiona Cameron University of Western Sydney Andrew Churches TiC Adventure Sports Michael Coghlan South Australia TAFE David Craven International Education Services Geoffrey Crisp University of Adelaide James Dalziel [...]

The process used to research and create the 2010 Horizon Report: Australia-New Zealand Edition is very much rooted in the methods used throughout the Horizon Project. All editions of the Horizon Report are produced using a carefully constructed process that is informed by both primary and secondary research. Dozens of technologies, meaningful trends, and critical [...]

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years New forms of analysis are making use of the visual centres in our brains and the ways of thinking described in Malcolm Gladwell’s best seller, Blink, to marshal the tremendous human capacity to discern and recognize patterns. Connections and insights that are not readily apparent in traditional tables of [...]

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years For nearly forty years, the keyboard and mouse have been the primary means to interact with computers. The Nintendo Wii in 2006 and the Apple iPhone in 2007 signalled the beginning of widespread consumer interest in — and acceptance of — interfaces based on natural human gestures. Now, new [...]

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years The movement toward open content reflects a growing shift in the way academics in many parts of the world are conceptualizing education to a view that is more about the process of learning than the information conveyed in their courses. Information is everywhere; the challenge is to make effective [...]

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years While the capability to deliver augmented reality experiences has been around for decades, it is only very recently that those experiences have become easy and portable. Advances in mobile devices as well as in the different technologies that combine the real world with virtual information have led to augmented [...]

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less According to a recent Gartner report, mobiles will be the most common way for people to access the Internet by 2013. Perhaps more important for education, Internet-capable mobile devices will outnumber computers by 2011. The available choices for mobiles are many — smart phones, tablets, laptops, and the newest [...]

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less As the technology underlying electronic readers has improved and more titles have become available, electronic books are quickly reaching the point where their advantages over the printed book are compelling to almost any observer. Already firmly established in the public sector, electronic books are gaining a foothold on campuses [...]

Since March 2002, under the banner of the Horizon Project, the New Media Consortium has held an ongoing series of conversations and dialogs with hundreds of technology professionals, campus technologists, faculty leaders from colleges and universities, museum professionals, teachers and other school professionals, and representatives of leading corporations from more than two dozen countries. In [...]

The six technologies featured in the 2010 Horizon Report: Australia-New Zealand Edition are placed along three adoption horizons that indicate likely time frames for their entrance into mainstream use for teaching, learning, or creative enquiry. The near-term horizon assumes the likelihood of entry into the mainstream for institutions within the next twelve months; the mid-term [...]