NMC Down Under in July!

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From July 5-20, 2008, the NMC leadership team of CEO Larry Johnson and Vice Presidents Rachel Smith and Alan Levine will be in Australia establishing a new phase of the Horizon Project and meeting with colleagues at our five Australian NMC member organizations. Look for a string of news stories and podcasts from this tour.

The primary purpose of the trip is the launch of Horizon.au -- a version of the Horizon project specifically focused on emerging technology in higher education for the Australia / New Zealand region. An advisory board has been convened and will meet face to face in Melbourne July 9-10 to generate the topics for a new Horizon Report. Like our other Horizon Projects, a majority of the work will take place openly in the wiki, and we invite interested persons to participate there by helping provide examples and tagging web resources.

While in Melbourne, we will be meeting with colleagues from University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology who are also co-hosts for the Horizon.au meeting. We also will be participating in an iCampus regional meeting.

There will be another stop in Brisbane for meetings at new NMC member University of Queensland followed by 3 days in Sydney to meet with colleagues at the University of Sydney, new NMC Member University of New South Wales and our long standing NMC member organization at the University of Wollongong. Our colleague Angela Thomas at the University of Sydney has arranged a number of local meetings and a dinner with colleagues we have known virtually through our Second Life projects.

Keep tuned to the NMC News feed for more updates!