Key Trends in the Horizon Reports
Monday, May 11th, 2009The 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
