| Curt Bonk is a former CPA who received his master's and Ph.D. degrees in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Bonk is now Professor of Instructional Systems Technology and also an adjunct in the School of Informatics at Indiana University which is also known as 'IU'. In 2007, Curtis Bonk was named a Visiting Professor at the University of Glamorgan in Wales. Dr. Curtis Bonk was also recently a Senior Research Fellow with the Advanced Distributed Learning Lab within the Department of Defense and before that Dr. Bonk was at the Army Research Institute. The E-Learning Professor has received numerous teaching and mentoring awards including the CyberStar Award from the Indiana Information Technology Association, the Most Outstanding Achievement Award from the U.S. Distance Learning Association, and the Most Innovative Teaching in a Distance Education Program Award from the State of Indiana. Curt has given over 804 talks around the globe related to online teaching and learning, including ones at universities in China, Korea, Finland, Taiwan, Thailand, Ireland, Spain, Iceland, Singapore, the UK, and the Saudi Arabia. Additionally, Dr. Bonk has over 206 publications on topics such as online learning pedagogy, Wikibooks, blogging, massive multiplayer online gaming, open source software, collaborative technologies, and synchronous and asynchronous computer conferencing. The e-learning guru is author of the Handbook of Blended Learning: Global Perspectives, Local Designs (2006) and also Empowering Online Learning: 100+ Activities for Reading, Reflecting, Displaying, and Doing (2008). The e-learning professor is now completing a book titled "The World is Open: Now, WE-ALL-LEARN with Web Technology", to extend "The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman. His homepage is at E-Learning Professor's Home Page. |






