What’s on the Horizon? Work Matters session 20 May 2009
Friday, May 1st, 2009This session is part of the Work Matters series at Murdoch University. It will happen on Wednesday 20 May 2009, 12:30 - 2pm in the Flexible Teaching and Learning Room in the Library on Level 3, North Wing.
Murdoch staff and students can enrol here.
The Horizon reports are a joint project of the New Media Consortium and Educause. The project involves thirty to forty educators worldwide, across all sectors, examining existing and emerging technologies to identify those that within the next five years are :
likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within learning-focused organizations.
They examine reports, conference proceedings, press clippings, and other types of research to identify possible technologies. Each year, over 80 technologies are identified, ranked by the panel and then narrowed down to twelve that are extensively researched. Six out of these then emerge as the major trends to watch and are outlined in the report.
In this session we discuss:
- The Horizon Report: Australia-New Zealand 2008 (released December 2008)
- The Horizon Report 2009 (January 2009)
- The Horizon Report K-12 2009 (March 2009)
The wiki where anyone interested can discuss the Horizon Reports is at Horizon Project Wiki. Links discussed in the Horizon Report can be found at delicious (social bookmarking site), searching on the tag hz09 or hzk09 or hzau08
At the start of the session - before any of the reports have been discussed - we are asking participants to fill in a poll about which technologies they think will be most influential for Murdoch University. This is to get them thinking about what they understand about each technology.
