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The Horizon Report: 2009 Australia-New Zealand Edition was released today in a symposium held at Griffith University’s Southbank campus in Brisbane. The report is the second in the series to focus on the impact of emerging technologies on postsecondary education in Australia and New Zealand. The Horizon Report series is a product of the New Media Consortium’s Horizon Project, an ongoing research project that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within higher education and other sectors.

In defining the six selected areas—Mobile Internet Devices; Private Clouds; Open Content; Virtual, Augmented, and Alternate Realities; Location-Based Learning; and Smart Objects and Devices—the project drew on an ongoing discussion among knowledgeable leaders and practitioners in business, industry, and education in Australia and New Zealand, as well as published resources, current research and practice, and the expertise of the educational community itself. The Horizon Project’s Australia-New Zealand Advisory Board probed current trends and challenges in post compulsory education as they are uniquely expressed in Australia and New Zealand, explored possible topics for the report, and over several rounds of rankings and dialog, selected the final technologies.