Key Trends in the Horizon Reports

Monday, May 11th, 2009

The Horizon Report: Australia-New Zealand 2008 (released December 2008)

  • Worldwide production of over 1 billion mobile phones per year is driving both innovation and adoption of ever more capable portable devices
  • There is an increasingly important set of influences from the workplace that are impacting how learning is designed and conducted
  • The increasing connectedness of people around the globe has and continues to dramatically reduce the costs of collaboration
  • As both connectors and the network increase in connectedness and capability, the set of technologies available to educators grows ever richer

The Horizon Report 2009 (January 2009)

  • 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 benefitting from unprecedented innovation, driven by global competition

The Horizon Report K-12 2009 (March 2009)

  • Technology continues to profoundly affect the way we work, collaborate and communicate
  • Technology is increasingly a means for empowering students, a method for communication and socializing, and a ubiquitous, transparent part of their lives
  • The web is an increasingly personal experience
  • The way we think of learning environments is changing
  • The perceived value of innovation and creativity is increasing