Educational Technology and Practice Trends: An Australasian Community Perspective to Contextualizing Horizon
Abstract: The community and affiliates of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) engaged in an environmental scanning project to identify the educational technology and practice trends likely to be of importance in the Australasian region in the next 12–18 months. Conceived as a regional companion to the EDUCAUSE Horizon Report and using a design-based research methodology, Contextualising Horizon engaged participants from across Australasia to identify the social, technological, economic, environmental, and political (STEEP) trends impacting the higher education sector and identified seven key technology and practice trends likely to be of importance. The trends identified reflect a contextualized regional focus and signal an alternative regional narrative of the key learning and teaching trends when compared with the EDUCAUSE Horizon Report.