ELI Web Seminar, January 12, 2009 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour

Taking the Horizon Project Down Under: The Australia–New Zealand Edition of the 2008 Horizon Report

Special Guests

Larry Johnson
CEO
New Media Consortium

Larry Johnson is chief executive officer of the New Media Consortium (NMC), an international consortium of more than 250 world-class universities, colleges, museums, research centers, and technology companies dedicated to using new technologies to inspire, energize, stimulate, and support learning and creative expression. He is an acknowledged expert on the effective application of new media in many contexts and has worked extensively to build common ground among museums and universities across North America and in more than a dozen other countries. He is the author a number of important books on the topic and has written dozens of monographs, chapters, and articles exploring emerging trends and issues related to that work.

Having served as president and senior executive at institutions in both the higher education and not-for-profit realms, Johnson has more than 25 years of experience leading high-profile, high-stakes projects. His educational background includes an MBA in finance and a PhD in education focused on research and evaluation. Among having received many other recognitions, Larry has been honored as a Distinguished Graduate by the University of Texas at Austin.

Rachel S. Smith
Vice President, NMC Services
New Media Consortium

Rachel S. Smith is vice president of NMC Services for the New Media Consortium. She is recognized for her work in making new technologies approachable for higher education faculty and staff through talks, trainings, and written materials. A specialist in project coordination and user interface design, Smith leads the NMC’s projects and fee-based services, working with members to involve them in NMC activities and projects. She has over 12 years of experience developing and directing technology projects for higher education. In her previous post at the California State University Center for Distributed Learning, she was involved with the development of online educational materials including MERLOT, Biology Labs On-Line, and Light Bridge, among others.

Alan Levine
Vice President, NMC Community and CTO
New Media Consortium

Alan Levine is vice president of NMC Community and chief technology officer for the New Media Consortium. He is widely recognized nationally and internationally for expertise in the application of new technologies to educational environments and was a pioneer on the web in 1993. An early proponent of blogs for information sharing, he shares his ideas and discoveries at CogDogBlog. Before joining the NMC, Levine served 14 years as an instructional technologist at the Maricopa Community Colleges, where he was actively engaged in research and development of learning technologies. He was a key contributor to significant efforts such as Ocotillo, a faculty-led initiative that promotes innovation and drives change; he created the Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX), a virtual warehouse of innovation that pioneered the use of RSS in syndicating learning object content; and he developed Feed2JS, an open-source software that allows people to easily incorporate RSS content into web pages.

Summary

Julie Little, interim director of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, will moderate this web seminar with Larry Johnson, Rachel Smith, and Alan Levine in which they share results from the 2008 Horizon Report: Australia–New Zealand Edition.

In July of 2008, members of the New Media Consortium traveled to Melbourne to meet with nearly 50 key education leaders from all over Australia and New Zealand and worked with them to publish the first-ever regional Horizon Report, part of 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 around the globe. Join the team leaders as they discuss what they learned along the way and how emerging technologies are looking from the Australasian perspective.

Additional Resources

• 2008 Horizon Report: Australia–New Zealand Edition
• 2008 Horizon Report (U.S. Edition)