Dr. Bonk's Keynotes in Corporate, Higher Ed, K-12, and More...

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Special 6 Part Masterclass (pick items) Higher Ed, K-12, and Corporate Keynotes 27 New Talks: "Video Primers in an Online Repository for e-Teaching and Learning" (V-PORTAL) (Watch) Speaking references available upon request

Testimonials and Reviews of Dr. Bonk's Workshops and Keynote Presentations 10 Recent Keynotes:   1. “Adding Some TEC-VARIETY to Online Course: Ten Principles for Mass Motivation”   2. “E-Learning: It’s about Nature (i.e., technology) AND Nurture (i.e., pedagogy)”   3. "MOOCs, Motivation, and the Mass Movement to Open Education”   4. “Extreme Learning: Stretching the Edges of Technology Enhanced Training”   5. “I am Not Content: The Future of Education Must Come Today”   6. “Stretching the Edges of Technology-Enhanced Training: From Tinkering to Tottering to Totally Extreme Learning”   7. “The Flat World has Swung Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education”   8. “The Perfect E-Storm: Emerging Technologies, Enormous Demand, Enhanced Pedagogy, and Erased Budgets”   9. “The World is Open: Introducing the Heroes, Gurus, and Revolutionaries of the Shared Internet”   10. “Where are You R2D2?: Addressing Diverse Online Learner Needs and Motivation with the Read, Reflect, Display, and Do (R2D2) Model” 10 Recent Workshops, Masterclass Sessions, and Conference Breakouts:   1. “100+ Hyper-Engaging Lecture Ideas For Any Class Size: Low-Risk, Low-Cost, Low Time”   2. “100+ Hyper-Engaging Instructional Ideas: Critical, Creative, Cooperative”   3. “Pardon the Interruption, but the MOOC is on the Loose”   4. “A Six-Part Masterclass on Online Teaching and Learning: Sampling across a Scrumptious Smorgasbord”   5. “Active Learning with Technology: Myths, Magic, and Mucho Motivation”   6. “Addressing Diverse Online Learner Needs and Motivation with the Read, Reflect, Display, and Do (R2D2) and TEC-VARIETY Models”   7. “Blended Learning A to Z: Myths, Models, and Moments of Magic”   8. “From R2D2 to the Matrix: A Galaxy of Online Learning Style, Motivational, Blended Learning, and Learner-Centered Examples”   9. “We're Going Mobile: Apps, Activities, and Adventures”   10. “The Rise of Shared Online Video, the Fall of Traditional Learning” Breakout session: A Six-Part Masterclass for Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning: Sampling across a Scrumptious Smorgasbord (select any or all parts, as needed) Abstract: Are you a sampler? Do you like a good buffet? Are you a multi-tasker? If you are, in this series of mini-sessions (or extended workshop), Curt Bonk will presents 6 of his most popular talks and topics. It is a best of the best talk. Each part is 30-40 minutes long followed by hands-on activities or question and answer or both. In the first part, Bonk will walk you through current technology trends and highlight the intersection between pedagogy and technology. As he will note throughout the day, effective instruction involves awareness of both nature (i.e., technology) and nurture (i.e., pedagogy). Of course, baby steps are sometimes needed. In addition to low level technology integration, there are mid-range steps toward course transformation and even glimpses of the extreme. Bonk will address these extreme edges of possibilities in Part I of this workshop. As many instructors and students realize, shared online video is really talking off today. In Part II, Bonk will explain how to use such free video in face-to-face, blended, and online courses from a student-centered as well as an instructor-centered perspective. But perhaps you want to address student motivation and retention in other ways, not just with video. You are in luck. In Part III, Bonk will lays out many options for you with his famed TEC-VARIETY model. Importantly, each letter of the model stands for one or more key motivational principles. After that, Bonk will provide dozens of examples of how to use his popular Read, Reflect, Display, and Do (R2D2) technique for addressing online learning styles and the diverse learners of this world. When Part IV is complete, you all become Jedi Knights of the online learning world. Before departing for another galaxy, there are two more destinations. Bonk will bring you back to base camp with general ideas for mixing many of the ideas above together. This remixing or blending of ingredients is Part V. During this segment, he will document a few blended learning models and approaches and then outline a dozen or so common problems and then detail several blended learning solutions for each one. Finally, those wanting ideas for active and collaborative learning, critical thinking, creative thinking, and motivation for any type of teaching situation, there is more...there is always more. He does that in Part VI with a sampling of low risk, low cost, low time activities as well as those further out on the edges of the risk continuum. This workshop is really the best of the best. Check out this scrumptious smorgasbord of online delights! Get ready for a power-packed session. Masterclass Part 1: Stretching the Edges of Technology-Enhanced Teaching: From Tinkering to Tottering to Totally Extreme Learning Masterclass Part 2: The Rise of Shared Online Video: The Fall of Traditional Instruction Masterclass Part 3: Adding Jumbo Motivation to Online Courses and Activities with the TEC-VARIETY Model Masterclass Part 4: Where are You R2D2? Addressing Learning Styles and Diverse Learners with the Read, Reflect, Display, and Do Model Masterclass Part 5: Blended Learning: Situations and Solutions Masterclass Part 6: Hyper-Engaging Instructional Strategies for Any Class Size: Low-Risk, Low-Cost, Low Time Masterclass Part 1: Stretching the Edges of Technology-Enhanced Teaching: From Tinkering to Tottering to Totally Extreme Learning Abstract: Some insist. Some resist. Others persist. Such is state of online learning today. But what is highly resistible for some is often passionately irresistible for others. Many are content to tinker with blended forms of learning. They dip their toes into the technology change movement by embedding shared online videos, simulations, timelines, collaborative groups, and open access articles in their courses. Others enter deeper waters and push toward the edges of what is possible. Their classes are teeter-tottering on the brink of transformation. Such instructors hand over the keys to their learners and let them drive for a bit. These risk taking instructors might enjoy reading a learner-designed wikibook, listening to a student generated podcast show, or watching the results of an international video competition. And then there are those who find themselves at the extreme edges of this learning planet. They might tap into virtual explorers, artists, archeologists, and adventurers to excite their learners. It is in such courses that scientific discoveries appear live. Mobile, virtual, and telepresence technologies become the new norm. It is time to stretch toward the edges of learning from those of us tinkering on the shores to those whose learning approaches are tottering in new directions and even landing in totally extreme or alien lands. This talk will showcase examples from all three worlds - the world of the tinkerer, the totterer, and the totally extreme. In which world will you find yourself?

Masterclass Part 2: The Rise of Shared Online Video, the Fall of Traditional Learning Abstract: Hundreds of technologies exist for improving teaching and learning. There is one technology today that offers unique and inexpensive ways to change education and training across all sectors; namely, shared online video. There are video explanations, demonstrations, scenarios, documentaries, and lectures. Of course, there are videos appearing in the news each afternoon and evening which can serve to anchor one’s instruction and explain key concepts the following day in class. They come from places like NASA TV, Link TV, YouTube edu, CNN, the BBC, Google, TeacherTube, Academic Earth, Fora TV, etc. All of these exist for free and at a moment’s click. Importantly, there are many ways to use them for interactive, collaborative, and engaging instruction far beyond the talking heads of yesteryear. If you cannot find any, why then, just ask your students to produce them. It is time to create innovative courses, programs, and degrees which utilize open educational content related to images, animations, and shared online video content. As this happens, traditional education will be challenged. To cope with these fast-changing times, Curt Bonk will offer 10 ways to use shared online video from an instructor-centered point of view as well as 10 ideas from a student-centered perspective. In addition, he will discuss what shared online video means to others (e.g., administrators, bloggers, podcasters, librarians, informal learners, corporate trainers, foundation directors, the recently retired as well as the unemployed, etc.) while simultaneously offering several candid guidelines on the use of such finger-tip technology and knowledge.

Masterclass Part 3. Adding Some Jumbo Motivation to Online Courses and Activities with TEC-VAREITY Model Abstract: Everyone is talking about the need to motivate and engage students. This is true in face-to-face classrooms and is even more true in online environments. Many students are unhappy due to bland online content and unimaginative activities. It is too lock-step and mechanized. There is no room for flexibility, choice, and creativity. Many others are bored since the course does not utilize current technologies. They love their iPads, iPhones, and other wireless and mobile technologies and want their instructors to utilize them. Some feel that the instructors have not addressed their preferred learning approaches. They want hands-on activities where they produce something meaningful as well as time to explore the resources they find the Web. All these people tend to simply want more variety, or more specifically, they want 'TEC-VARIETY'. Bonk’s new instructional design model for online learning -- TEC-VARIETY -- will break online instructors and students out of boring online learning. To simplify Web-based learning possibilities, each letter of the TEC-VARIETY model stands for a well known motivational principle, including: (1) Tone or climate, (2) Encouragement or feedback, (3) Curiosity, (4) Variety, (5) Autonomy or choice, (6) Relevance and meaningfulness, (7) Interactivity and collaboration, (8) Engagement, (9) Tension, and (10) Yielding products and goal setting. During this talk, Dr. Bonk will outline dozens of active learning ideas and solutions that motivate students and creatively engage them in deeper learning experiences. It is time to break out of boring online approaches with a bit of TEC-VARIETY!!!

Masterclass Part 4: Where are You R2D2?: Addressing Diverse Online Learner Needs with the Read, Reflect, Display, and Do Model Abstract: Teachers, technology coordinators, and principals are frustrated trying to keep up with the never ending parade of new learning technologies. So many choices! Add to that the scores of people saying teachers should embed them in their teaching. Then there are complaints that few teachers were trained on how to develop highly interactive and collaborative online activities and environments. Teachers are once again told that students will quickly complain about their classes if they do not address their learning preferences or appropriately use the technologies that they have access to outside of school. Time to pull the hair out? Not yet. There is hope. An innovative model called Read, Reflect, Display, and Do (R2D2) is detailed in Curt Bonk’s book, "Empowering Online Learning: 100 Activities for Reading, Reflecting, Displaying, and Doing." In this talk, Bonk will detail dozens of examples and ways to use R2D2 make your use of technology more engaging, empowering, and exciting. The R2D2 model can be expanded to meet your needs, no matter the discipline you teach or age of your students. As you will see, integrating technology need not be difficult. This four-part model not only simplifies the process, it can accelerate learning and provide a mechanism for discussing and sharing technology integration ideas with others. Perhaps it is time for you to taken an adventure to a new learning galaxy where you find R2D2 and begin using technology to address the diverse learners you find there.

Masterclass Part 5: Blended Learning: Situations and Solutions Abstract: Abstract: During the twenty-first century, active and engaging learning is the focus. In response, teachers, schools, students, and even parents are talking about using technology for "continuous learning." School personnel throughout the world are seeking to integrate technology in effective and creative ways. Not surprisingly, many are turning to the notion of blended learning. There is both extensive confusion and much optimism about blended learning due to multiple blended learning definitions and approaches. Some might blend to take advantage of face-to-face and virtual learning opportunities. Others might blend to combine synchronous and asynchronous technologies to best meet student needs. In fact, it seems every person and organization has its own definition or model of blended learning. To make sense of the possibilities, Dr. Bonk will lay out several different models and definitions of blended learning as well as the advantages and disadvantages of blended learning. Importantly, the session will a dozen different situations or problems and more than two dozen potential blended learning solutions addressing a wide range of disciplines, grade levels, and learner needs. Many of the examples will come from Dr. Bonk’s recent Handbook of Blended learning: Global Perspectives, Local Designs.

Masterclass Part 6: Hyper-Engaging Instructional Strategies for Any Class Size: Low-Risk, Low-Cost, Low Time Abstract: Are you bored with your teaching? Are your students? Are students dropping out like flies or wishing they could? Do you feel that new approaches simply take too much time or are too risky? Do you lack funding for mass structural changes? In this talk, Dr. Bonk provides dozens of ways to liven up your lectures and get your students involved and engaged in learning. There will be dozens of methods that you can use to motivate and engage your students in their learning. Some of the strategies will be very teacher-centered, while others will give students more ownership and control of the curriculum. These strategies will relate to creativity, critical thinking, cooperative and collaborative learning, and motivation. Importantly, each strategy will be laid out in a step-by-step approach. In addition, Dr. Bonk will label each one in terms of the degree of risk, time, and cost and he will offer his advice for getting started with these tools and techniques. Attend this talk and become hyper-engaged yourself!

Note: those wanting more, can ask for Part 7: MOOCs and the Mass Movement to Open Education; or Taking Leadership in Mystery of MOOCs and the Mass Movement toward Open Education (Alternative title: i>Pardon the Interruption, but the MOOC is on the Loose)

1. 100+ Hyper-Engaging Instructional Ideas: Critical, Creative, Cooperative (*)
2. 100+ Hyper-Engaging Lecture Ideas For Any Class Size: Low-Risk, Low-Cost, Low Time (*)
3. 200+ Innovative, Interactive, and Easy to Implement Instructional Ideas for Face-to-Face, Blended, and Fully Online Courses
4. Accessing Open Access Educational Resources: Augmenting and Accelerating the Apprenticeship Process
5. Active Learning with Technology: Myths, Magic, and Mucho Motivation (*)
6. Adding Some TEC-VARIETY to Online Courses: Ten Principles for Mass Motivation
7. Addressing Diverse Online Learner Needs with the Read, Reflect, Display, and Do (R2D2) Model
8. Addressing Diverse Online Learner Needs and Motivation with the Read, Reflect, Display, and Do (R2D2) and TEC-VARIETY Models (*)
9. Best Practices for Online Learning: Introducing the R2D2 and TEC-VARIETY Models
10. Blended Learning A to Z: Myths, Models, and Moments of Magic (*)
11. Blended Learning: Situations, Solutions, and Several Surprises
12. Digital Scholarship: Success and Productivity in the Age of Web 2.0 (*)
13. E-Learning: It's about Nature (technology) AND Nurture (pedagogy) (*)
14. Engage, Number One: This is the Next Generation
15. Extreme Learning: Stretching the Edges of Technology Enhanced Training
16. From R2D2 to the Matrix: A Galaxy of Online Learning Style, Motivational, Blended Learning, and Learner-Centered Examples (*)
17. We're Going Mobile: Apps, Activities, and Adventures
18. I am Not Content: The Future of Education Must Come Today
19. Literacy in a Digital World: Emerging Tools and Innovative Activities for the Twenty-first Century Learner (*)
20. MOOCs, Motivation, and the Mass Movement to Open Education
21. “My Classroom Teaching Has Been Changed So Much”: Elementary School Teachers' Perspectives on Teaching and Learning with Wikis.
22. Pardon the Interruption, but the MOOC is on the Loose
23. Sipping Drinks at the 3M Technology Gala: Money, Mobile, and Most Promising Technology
24. Stretching the Edges of Technology-Enhanced Teaching: From Tinkering to Tottering to Totally Extreme Learning
25. Stretching the Edges of Technology-Enhanced Teaching: From Tinkering to Tottering to Totally Extreme Learning
26. Stretching the Edges of Technology-Enhanced Teaching: From Tinkering to Tottering to Totally Extreme Learning (K-12 version)
27. Stretching the Edges of Technology-Enhanced Teaching with the R2D2 and TEC-VARIETY Models
28. Taking Leadership in Mystery of MOOCs and the Mass Movement toward Open Education
29. The E-Perfect Storm: Emerging Technology, Enormous Learner Demands, Enhanced Pedagogy and Erased Budgets (*)
30. The Perfect E-Storm: Emerging Technologies, Enormous Demand, Enhanced Pedagogy, and Erased Budgets (K-12)
31. The Flat World has Swung Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education (*)
32. The Flat World has Swung Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education (Corporate)
33. The Rise of Shared Online Video, the Fall of Traditional Learning (*)
34. The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education (*)
35. The World is Open: Introducing the Heroes, Gurus, and Revolutionaries of the Shared Internet (*)
36. Where are You R2D2?: Addressing Diverse Online Learner Needs and Motivation with the Read, Reflect, Display, and Do (R2D2) Model
37. Will We Ever GET-IT?: Globally Enhancing Thinking, Instruction, and Technology
38. Workshop on Shared Online Video: The Rise of Shared Online Video, the Fall of Traditional Learning (*)

Abstract: You may have attended sessions on creativity and innovation as a means to break your students out of traditional ways of thinking. Or perhaps your discipline emphasizes critical thinking skills and activities. Still other areas will recognize the importance of teamwork skills in real world and embed group activities in their classes. No matter the area of concern, motivation of students is important. This presentation will feature ideas from each of these teaching and learning areas. More than 100 instructional approaches for critical and creative thinking, cooperative and collaborative learning, and motivation will be provided. In response to those who might be hesitant or with minimal flexibility in their schedules, dozens of these ideas will be low risk, low cost, and low time. The majority of these ideas will be implementable in face-to-face as well as online and blended classes.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Are you bored with your teaching? Are your students? Are students dropping out like flies or wishing they could? Do you feel that new approaches simply take too much time or are too risky? Do you teach large section college classes with little space to move about? Do you not have much money in your department or program to make changes? In this talk, Dr. Bonk provides more than 100 ways to liven up your lectures and get your students involved and engaged in learning. There will be dozens of methods that you can use to motivate and engage your students in their learning. Some of the strategies will be very teacher-centered, while others will give students more ownership and control of the curriculum. These strategies will relate to creativity, critical thinking, cooperative and collaborative learning, and motivation. Importantly, each strategy will be laid out in a step-by-step approach. In addition, Dr. Bonk will label each one in terms of the degree of risk, time, and cost and he will offer his advice for getting started with these tools and techniques. Attend this talk and become hyper-engaged yourself!

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: So you want everything? Well this talk gives you everything and more. Instructional strategies for critical thinking, creative thinking, motivation, cooperative and collaborative learning, and technology integration will be detailed, many of which will be low risk, low, and low cost. Will 50 innovative ideas do? Not! How about 100? No, that is a different talk. 150? Try again. Ah, 200, you say. Why certainly. You say that you're greedy and want options to many of these as well? Sure, no problem. Frameworks and models for it all? Of course. So you have many conventional face-to-face classes but are also using hybrid or blended models and dabbling in fully online courses and programs, some of which include synchronous components or videoconferencing? That's too easy. This talk covers instructional strategies for any environment and any delivery system. What about length...any options there? This talk is possible in one hour, two hours, three, or four or more. You pick. In it, Curt Bonk will discuss his famed R2D2 (Read, Reflect, Display, and Do) model for addressing diverse learners and learning styles or preferences as well as his popular online learning and retention model called TEC-VARIETY (e.g., tone, encouragement, curiosity, variety, autonomy, relevance, interactivity, engagement, tension, and yielding products, etc.).. WE-ALL-LEARN and Bonk will show you how this is so with more than 200 interactive instructional strategies for any teaching environment or setting.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Learning in any discipline is an apprenticeship process. In the not-too-distant past, this apprenticeship between the experts and novices primarily took place through books, classroom lectures, and an occasional internship or field placement. It was too often a unidirectional process from instructor and course to students. Today, open educational resources shift the role of instructor from content provider to resource curator or cultivator, learning concierge, and social network coordinator. When effectively designed, learners can explore and debate unique sets of online resources mined, filtered, and nominated by various instructors and prior students of a course. They can also meet well known authorities around the world as well as students enrolled in related courses in other universities and countries. Such individuals can appear with barely a moment’s notice using Web conferencing like Google Hangouts or Skype. Interactions with outside experts and peers can excite your learners into current trends, tools, and resources valued and used by others. Learners, in turn, grasp new perspectives and become more sensitive to how particularly content, ideas, and theories are actually applied in different cultures. Instructors can also anchor their lectures or reading assignments with video explanations, demonstrations, scenarios, documentaries, and speeches using existing videos found at places like TED, MIT World, Big Think, SciVee, BBC Learning, PBS Video, among hundreds of other sites. Such open access videos not only supplement course content but can make researchers, theorists, politicians, artists, and adventurers come to life. As this occurs, the instructor role shifts to one of learning concierge and course curator who continually augments and expands the course with open access content and course activities in an accelerating apprenticeship process.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Myths and debates abound about the benefits of technology integration in higher education; especially with the explosion of online course enrollments. Based on extensive research, Curtis Bonk will dispel the myths and reveal a few technology magic tricks to help instructors and course designers focus on effective teaching and learning with technology. Dr. Bonk will highlight instructional technologies and pedagogical strategies currently emerging to meet diverse student needs. Within several contexts such as face-to-face classrooms, e-learning and blended learning, he will illustrate effective applications of technology to address different student learning styles and motivation. He will also provide dozens of active learning ideas and solutions that motivate students and creatively engage them in deeper learning experiences. Instead of relying on magic, these techniques will be based on ten motivational principles related to tone or climate, feedback, engagement, meaningfulness, choice, variety, curiosity, tension, interactivity and collaboration, and goal setting.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Everyone is talking about the need to motivate and engage students. This is true in face-to-face classrooms and is even more true in online environments. Many students are unhappy due to bland online content and unimaginative activities. It is too lock-step and mechanized. There is no room for flexibility, choice, and creativity. Many others are bored since the course does not utilize current technologies. They love their iPads, iPhones, and other wireless and mobile technologies and want their instructors to utilize them. Some feel that the instructors have not addressed their preferred learning approaches. They want hands-on activities where they produce something meaningful as well as time to explore the resources they find the Web. All these people tend to simply want more variety, or more specifically, they want 'TEC-VARIETY'. Bonk’s new instructional design model for online learning -- TEC-VARIETY -- will break online instructors and students out of boring online learning. To simplify Web-based learning possibilities, each letter of the TEC-VARIETY model stands for a well known motivational principle, including:

(1) Tone or climate, (2) Encouragement or feedback, (3) Curiosity, (4) Variety, (5) Autonomy or choice, (6) Relevance and meaningfulness, (7) Interactivity and collaboration, (8) Engagement, (9) Tension, and (10) Yielding products and goal setting.

During this talk, Dr. Bonk will outline dozens of active learning ideas and solutions that motivate students and creatively engage them in deeper learning experiences. It is time to break out of boring online approaches with a bit of TEC-VARIETY!!!

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Motivation is a key issue in online learning. Another concern relates to developing interactive and collaborative activities and environments. Many online students drop out of courses or do not participate since they do not address their learning preferences. Others complain of the highly mechanized online instructional approaches that bore, or, worse still, insult them. Simply put, there is a dire need to creatively engage online students in deeper and more varied approaches to online learning. A new model called Read, Reflect, Display, and Do (R2D2) is detailed in Curt Bonk’s 2008 book, "Empowering Online Learning: 100 Activities for Reading, Reflecting, Displaying, and Doing." This model or framework for online learning can address different student learning strategies or preferences. Bonk will discuss how the R2D2 method can be expanded or altered to fit your particular needs. He will also highlight his most recent instructional design method for online motivation and retention called TEC-VARIETY. Each letter of the TEC-VARIETY model stands for a well known motivational principle (e.g., tone, encouragement, curiosity, variety, etc.). Bonk has hundreds of activities examples and of how to use either of these models.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: There are myriad questions related to online assessment and evaluation. In this talk, Bonk will document the importance of matching online goals and objectives to actual assessment practices. He will provide examples and data from research that he and his colleagues have conducted on online assessment practices in higher education settings. Next, he will lay out dozens of online assessments he uses for different online activities in accordance with both his R2D2 and TEC-VARIETY models. These models relate to online student learning styles and motivation. In the third part, Bonk will describe dozens of tips for saving time in online assessment as well as many ways to detect and reduce online plagiarism. Finally, if interested and time allows, he will describe online evaluation techniques and options.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year and endless ways in which they can be used for teaching and learning. So many technologies and pedagogical uses, in fact, that most instructors of higher education are overwhelmed. One solution for this problem is to locate and share best practices. As part of this "best practices" movement, Curt Bonk offers two simple yet powerful frameworks that can be used to understand hundreds of Web-based pedagogical ideas that can motivate students to high success in online learning environments. Bonk will provide these best practices in online teaching based on two decades of his research. Such ideas can creatively engage students into deeper and better learning. He will reveal dozens of practical examples using his widely acclaimed R2D2 (Read, Reflect, Display, and Do) framework for instructional design with technology. Not done, he will showcase his TEC-VARIETY model for student motivation with Web technology. Each letter of the TEC-VARIETY model stands for a well known motivational principle (e.g., tone, encouragement, curiosity, variety, autonomy, relevance, interactivity, engagement, tension, and yielding products.). While detailing best practices he has seen around the globe, Bonk will also discuss how his two methods can be expanded or altered to fit one’s particular preferences and needs. No matter what galaxy or planet you are on, these ideas and techniques can be linked student motivation, collaboration, interaction, and general engagement in the learning process. Those attending this session will walk away with many practical strategies that can be incorporated directly into face-to-face, blended, and virtual classes, events, or programs.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Instead of debating the costs and benefits of online learning, many educators are now exploring ways to blend e-learning technologies and environments. There is both extensive confusion and much optimism about blended learning due to multiple blended learning definitions and approaches. There are also many myths about blended learning. Some might blend in order to address different learning styles. Others might blend to take advantage of face-to-face and virtual learning opportunities. Still others might blend to combine synchronous and asynchronous technologies to best meet student needs. To addresses these issues, in this talk, Dr. Bonk will lay out several different models and definitions of blended learning. The session will expose the advantages as well as the disadvantages of blended learning as related to the different models. Perhaps, most importantly, the session will include more than a dozen different situations or problems and many potential blended learning solutions in various disciplines and educational arenas. Some of these blended activities might even result in moments of online magic. Many of the ideas and examples in this talk will come from Dr. Bonks Handbook of Blended learning: Global Perspectives, Local Designs.

Presentation type	Keynote, breakout session, or workshop
Audience	All, though primarily higher education
Duration	45 minutes to 90 minutes
Handouts	Yes

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

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Abstract: There is both extensive confusion and much optimism about blended learning due to multiple blended learning definitions and approaches. Some might blend to take advantage of face-to-face and virtual learning opportunities. Others might blend to combine synchronous and asynchronous technologies to best meet student needs. To addresses these issues, Dr. Bonk will lay out several different models and definitions of blended learning as well as the advantages and disadvantages of blended learning. Importantly, the session will include a dozen different situations or problems and a plethora of potential blended learning solutions in many different disciplines and levels of institutions. Many of the examples will come from Dr. Bonks recent Handbook of Blended learning: Global Perspectives, Local Designs. Dr. Bonk will also tap into recent data he has collected on the present and future state of blended learning around the planet. Some of this data will surprise you! During this session, participants will reflect on their own blended learning models.

Presentation type	Keynote, breakout session, or workshop
Audience	All, though primarily higher education
Duration	45 minutes to 90 minutes
Handouts	Yes

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Many are unclear on how the use of emerging technologies impact on research and scholarship. In particular, there is much confusion about the Web 2.0 and the new forms of digital scholarship. In this talk, Bonk will briefly clarify what the Web 2.0 means and why it is important. Next, he will document dozens of ways in which scholarship is different in the Web 2.0. We are in a transition to new ways to teach, learn, and be a scholar. Many now perceive a key aspect of scholarship to be interactive and democratic participation throughout the publishing process. Among the nontraditional options confronting us are blogging, e-books and wikibooks, online conferences, author podcasts and pubcasts, professor celebrity videos in YouTube, personally-built knowledge portals, and open access journals articles and documents. In addition, anyone can now publish their books and text documents using Lulu, BookSurge, Scripd, or personal Web servers. Colleges and universities, in fact, are encouraging their faculty members to post their publications online. And if you have video you want to share online, there is TeacherTube, YouTube, and CurrentTV, among many other choices. With the explosion of the Web 2.0, many institutions, in fact, have designated channels for their lectures in iTunes and YouTube. Questions remain, however, as to which of these publishing and presenting avenues will lead to tenure, respect, and a high quality reputation. In this talk, Bonk will provide many such digital scholarship examples and offer his opinion on where this is all headed.

Presentation type	Keynote, breakout session, or workshop
Audience	All, though primarily higher education
Duration	45 minutes to 90 minutes
Handouts	Yes

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Emerging technologies - such as electronic portfolios, blogs, wikis, podcasts, ebooks, digital object repositories, computer games and simulations, and wireless and mobile computing - are generating waves of new opportunities in higher education, K-12 schools, corporate training, and other learning environments. Higher education instructors are always pressed for time and yet they encounter new technologies that they might incorporate into their teaching on a daily basis. Educational technologies, as genes are to human beings, instill a wondrous nature of possibilities for learning. However, this is an interactional model and nurture is equally important. In fact, the effective use of these educational technologies involves far more than simply shoveling tutorials, readings, and slideshows onto a web site or deciding to use a new technology in one's teaching. Instructors must be trained how to motivate online students as well as how to address their individual learning styles and adjust learning methods and assessment to the learner-centered expectations of Generation X and millennial students. As enrollments in online courses surge, today's students - immersed in an increasingly digital world - are seeking richer and more engaging learning experiences. Amid the rising tide of expectations, instructors are exploring innovative ways to use technology to foster interaction, collaboration, and excitement for learning. The current debates about e-learning will not be won by technology advocates, promoters, and zealots, nor by those who are more hesitant, resistant, and reluctant to incorporate technologies into their teaching. One may get excited about nature (technology), while for the other it is all about nurture (pedagogy). But, as this talk will show, it is both that matter. Neither nature nor nurture can be ignored.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: With his now famous directive, “Engage, Number One,” Jean-Luc Picard reminded us in nearly every episode of Star Trek Next Generation of the need to engage. The problem is that engagement has not been the number one concern of those teaching fully online courses or even in blended or Web supplemented environments. Instead, the top concern is survival. And with recent trends toward massive open online courses (MOOCs), there is increasing focus on masses of people enrolled in preset course contents, instead of dynamic and interactive pedagogy. The result is that learners are too often bored with course resources and requirements. However, it is clear that they no longer are willing to look the other way as they might have in the early days of the Web. This next generation of Web learners is different. They want to be empowered. They seek learning innovation and variety As such, they yearn for interaction, autonomy, and choice. They also long to “do” or produce something. Gone are the days of read and respond. It is the age of “try it out” and make a contribution. Accordingly, this talk will detail dozens of ways to motivate and engage learners, while fostering critical and creative thinking in highly engaging, generative environments. Attend this talk and become hyper-engaged yourself! When done, learning engagement will truly be Number One again.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Many are content to tinker with blended forms of learning. They dip their toes into the technology change movement by embedding simulations, expert chats, collaborative groups, and open access resources in their courses. Others enter deeper waters and push toward the edges of what is possible by flipping their classrooms with shared online videos, wikibooks, and virtual worlds. Their courses are teeter-tottering on the brink of transformation with real time content and learner produced resources and activities. And then there are those who find themselves at the extreme edges of this learning planet—e.g., teaching or learning in a boat or on a mountain top. To foster learner engagement and interest, they might tap into cutting edge technologies as well as virtual scientists in Antarctica, inventors and entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley, teachers on boats in the Pacific or Atlantic, archeologists exploring lost Amazonian tribes, business leaders on Wall Street, and explorers, environmentalists, and adventurers in Greenland. It is in such courses that scientific discoveries and business inventions appear live.

Three Overview Points:
1. Many types and examples of extreme learning today (online language learning with Livemocha, Palabea, and Babbel, global education and social change through Facebook, Ning, TED, LinkTV, and Twitter, adventure and environment education such as Earthducation, North of 60, the Nautilus Live, and Geothentic, etc.)
2. Capturing stories of life change or empowerment moments with technology can inspire countless others.
3. Most extreme learning ideas today provide markers for every day learning a decade from now.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Retention is a key issue in online learning. Another is developing interactive and collaborative activities and environments. Creating a motivational and interactive online environment can enhance student retention, completion, and overall enthusiasm for this new type of learning arena. Part of the solution that institutions of higher learning are adopting relates to blended learning and part relates to becoming more learner-centered. As part of this movement, in this talk, Curt Bonk will provide dozens of pedagogical ideas and solutions that motivate students in the online learning environments. Bonk will provide best practices in online teaching, based on two decades of his own research as well as many others, that creatively engage students into deeper and better learning. Using his new R2D2 learning style framework for online instructional design as well as his TEC-VARIETY model for online student motivation, he will also present engaging strategies that relate to different student learning strategies or preferences. He will also discuss how the R2D2 method can be expanded or altered to fit your particular needs. He will also highlight his most recent instructional design method called the MATRIX. No matter what galaxy or planet you are on, these ideas and techniques can be linked student motivation, collaboration, interaction, and general engagement in the learning process. Bonk will offer many such linkages. More importantly, specific steps will be provided for each technique described in this entertaining and informative talk. As a result, this session will include many practical strategies that can be incorporated directly into one's virtual classes, events, or programs.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Mobile learning. Mobile learning. Mobile learning. Mobile learning is now more popular than PCs, TV, and even toilets, electricity, and safe drinking water. Some people even suffer from nomophobia or fear of being without mobile contact. Tablet computers, smartphones, and e-book readers are just the first wave. Google glasses, James Bond watches, and bendable screens are part of the second wave. The perpetual refrain that significant educational reform will come from mobile and ubiquitous learning is beginning to ring true. Already mobile learning is impacting every sector of education – especially higher education and training environments – and it is shifting downward to K-12 schools. Multimedia study guides, mobile referenceware, pocket dictionaries, lecture planning, attendance taking, and mobile language training are just some of the common applications. In this session, you will learn about different forms of mobile devices that have brought us wave upon wave of eye-popping mobile trends as well as a plethora of mobile learning applications and ideas. Each is making an impact on education. It is time to reflect, discuss, plan for, and implement these possibilities.

Presentation type	Keynote, breakout session, or workshop
Audience	All, though primarily higher education
Duration	45 minutes to 90 minutes
Handouts	Yes

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Look left, look right, look back, and then look dead-on straight ahead...what do you see? Of course, the air is filled with e-learning opportunities as well as talk of educational transformation. So much news. So much progress. Each second of the day, dozens of learners discover shiny learning nuggets previous unknown. Each week, thousands of schools, universities, corporations, and government offices announce strategic plans for e-learning. Every month, hundreds of new online courses, programs, and certificates are offered. Year after year, research reports and meta-analyses indicate that there are undeniable positive benefits of online teaching and learning. The world of technology-enhanced learning, is looking up, up, up. But wait a minute. It is no time to be content. It is not time to relax and just let the "inevitable" future unfold in front of our eyes. No! We must all jump in and help build the changes we want to see. Besides, there are hundreds of millions of people who cannot wait. They need access to a more free and open education today--one with high quality content, interactive and engaging tasks, and motivating technology use. This is a land of where nature (i.e., technology) meets nurture (i.e., pedagogy). It is time you joined in to build the future. Those attending this talk should be cautioned to check their hearts and credits cards at the door since this will be an emotionally-packed talk intended to make you act.

Presentation type	Keynote, breakout session, or workshop
Audience	All, though primarily higher education
Duration	45 minutes to 90 minutes
Handouts	Yes

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Free and open educational resources as well as participatory technology tools which enable learners to generate content and ideas, not simply passively receive it, are drastically changing educational opportunities for students as well as the expectations of their teachers, schools, and school districts. The learning world is flattening in front of our eyes! As this occurs, the skills demanded of learners and teachers are shifting. New forms of literacy must be emphasized and tested. At the same time, the role of professional development expands significantly and simultaneously becomes increasingly demanding and vital. Not too surprisingly, there is mass confusion and debate regarding the use of emerging technologies in schools. Battles reign regarding how to embed Web technologies for effective fully online and blended learning opportunities in K-12 education. Emerging participatory and interactive technologies (e.g., podcasts, wikis, blogs, social networking software, etc.) as well as online gaming and simulations, virtual worlds, collaborative technologies, open courseware, learning portals, and mobile computing are providing learning opportunities never previously imagined. In this session, Bonk will discuss the digital literacy implications of these technologies, while also detailing examples of their use in innovative educational activities (e.g., cross cultural blogging, online language programs, learning sign language from a video iPod, student radio programs, student generated wikibooks, etc.) which motivate students and creatively engage them in rich and deeper forms of learning. He will also highlight the important role of professional development to assist teachers and leaders to gain the instructional intelligence that supports twenty-first century literacies. Of course, the ultimate goal is to empower learners and give them more responsibility for their own learning, while equipping them with skills to succeed at high levels in new world economies. When done, Bonk will also prompt a discussion of what digital literacy skills and competencies are required to survive in this age. During this time, he will point to ways in which blended learning provides opportunities for addressing these skills not only for students but also for timely teacher inservice training and professional development.

Presentation type	Keynote, breakout session, or workshop
Audience	All, though primarily K-12 education
Duration	45 minutes to 90 minutes
Handouts	Yes

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Open education was often laughed at or ignored until the emergence of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) with their tens--or even hundreds--of thousands of learners in a single course. Given the mass success of Stanford courses topping 100,000 each and startups like Udacity and Coursera as well as the announcement of edX (from Harvard and MIT), we can no longer look the other way. Still, many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education remain, such as those related to infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment, to name a few. Just how does an instructor keep thousands of students motivated and involved in such a course? And what are the more promising business models? In this talk, Bonk will detail his experiences in teaching a MOOC and offer guidelines for others hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment. A set of 10 key motivational principles will be outlined with examples. He will also map out a set of business plans and more than a dozen types of MOOCs.

Three Overview Points:
1. Much experimentation with MOOCs and open education today; dozens of possible business models (advertisements, fees for completion certificates, pay as you go, company sponsored courses, assessment fees, etc.).
2. Will the certificates that students earn while taking MOOCs make traditional college degrees obsolete?
3. Given how vital motivation and retention is to MOOCs as well as open education in general, 10 key principles of online and blended learning will be mapped out.

Presentation type	Keynote, breakout session, or workshop
Audience	All, though primarily higher education
Duration	45 minutes to 90 minutes
Handouts	Yes     (Online Slides)

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Wikis are one technology that offers hope for a more progressive and learner-centered education. They are an empowering tool for both teachers as well as learners. As part of this empowerment, wikis support critical and creative thinking as well as new forms of collaboration. Learners generate and negotiate knowledge in a wiki. As such, wiki use is situated at the intersection of technology and pedagogy. In this talk, Bonk presents research he conducted on elementary teachers’ perspectives related to the use of wikis with young children. This research looks at the purpose and motivation of teachers to use wikis. Also examined are relationships between elementary instructor’s teaching philosophy and goals related to their uses of wikis. Finally, the research reveals interesting findings related to the role of student, parent, teacher, and others in the use of wikis, the challenges faced, and the support structures in place. Teachers in this study are highly optimistic about the use of wikis as a part of a revolution in education. These are exciting times.

Presentation type	Keynote, breakout session, or workshop
Audience	All, though primarily K-12
Duration	45 minutes to 90 minutes
Handouts	Yes

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Have you heard the grumblings, the firings, and the large-scale attacks about this new educational phenomenon called the MOOC? Seems the shots are being fired from every direction. Despite all the gunfire, the MOOC is definitely now on the loose. While there have been a number of MOOC-like efforts over the past several years, few will disagree that the massive open online courses (MOOCs) at Stanford in the fall of 2011 dramatically changed the landscape of education with enrollments topping 100,000 per course. After that success, new companies like Udacity and Coursera were promptly founded as well as the edX project from MIT and Harvard. Coursera has quickly added sixteen top-name universities as partners and is approaching a million students in just its first few months of existence. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, student services, assessment, etc., all will be discussed and debated in an honest and open way. After Bonk’s open debate with a member of the audience, akin to “Pardon the Interruption” (PTI) show on ESPN, we will open it up for audience questions for Round 2 of the PTI. To set the stage, Bonk will collect a variety of audience pro and con opinions as participants walk in the door and have a moderator who will select questions for him to address. As such, there will be plenty of time to expose all points of view.

Three Overview Questions:
1. Are these new efforts going to profoundly improve educational opportunities for inquisitive learners around the planet or act as incoming meteors causing a global winter that leads to the extinction of educational dinosaurs?
2. What are the assorted business plans that Coursera and others are relying to make this happen?
3. And what motivates millions of self-directed online learners in such massively open online courses (MOOCs)?

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Dear Diary…The year is 2014 and we are having a ball. Welcome to the educational technology gala. Do you have ticket for admission? No? Well, no matter…the price is increasingly free and that is scary to many people. Once inside, throngs of guests are found sipping the same technology cool aide as their colleagues and supervisors and it is business as usual. However, others will find more intoxicating drinks. They will tell you that we are at a proverbial crossroads across all forms and sectors of education from K-12 to higher education to corporate and military training. Budgetary dollars are shrinking and, those that are not, are continually reallocated. Smacking in the face of this, the technologies learners are coming to school with are rapidly expanding while educational missions and clientele are in the midst of transformation. Wave after wave of learning technology is forcing educators to reconsider the purpose, forms, locations, and best times for education. As part of it, the entire planet is going mobile and connecting to peers and resources never before possible. Open educational resources (OERs) are enabling schools, universities, and training departments to do more with much less. Open education is but a start. At the core, this talk is a rapid overview of the technologies emerging during the past year or two, including augmented reality, tablet computers, digital books, shared online video, social media, and language translation tools, with an emphasis on the ones that are free as well as those offering novel learning opportunities. Welcome to the 3M technology gala. This year’s theme is money (or lack thereof), mobile, and most promising technology.

Presentation type	Keynote, breakout session, or workshop
Audience	All, though primarily higher education
Duration	45 minutes to 90 minutes
Handouts	Yes

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Some insist. Some resist. Others persist. Such is state of online learning today. But what is highly resistible for some is often passionately irresistible for others. Many are content to tinker with blended forms of learning. They dip their toes into the technology change movement by embedding shared online videos, simulations, timelines, collaborative groups, and open access articles in their courses. Others enter deeper waters and push toward the edges of what is possible. Their classes are teeter-tottering on the brink of transformation. Such instructors hand over the keys to their learners and let them drive for a bit. These risk taking instructors might enjoy reading a learner-designed wikibook, listening to a student generated podcast show, or watching the results of an international video competition. And then there are those who find themselves at the extreme edges of this learning planet. They might tap into virtual explorers, artists, archeologists, and adventurers to excite their learners. It is in such courses that scientific discoveries appear live. Mobile, virtual, and telepresence technologies become the new norm. It is time to stretch toward the edges of learning from those of us tinkering on the shores to those whose learning approaches are tottering in new directions and even landing in totally extreme or alien lands. This talk will showcase examples from all three worlds - the world of the tinkerer, the totterer, and the totally extreme. Which world will you find yourself?

Presentation type	Keynote, breakout session, or workshop
Audience	All, though primarily higher education
Duration	45 minutes to 90 minutes
Handouts	Yes

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Look left, look right, look back, and then look dead-on straight ahead...what do you see? Of course, the air is filled with e-learning opportunities as well as talk of educational transformation. So much news. So much progress. The world of technology-enhanced learning is looking up, up, up. But wait a minute. Far too many in higher education are content to tinker with blended forms of learning. They dip their toes into the technology change movement by embedding shared online videos, simulations, timelines, collaborative groups, and open access articles in their courses. This is helpful but it is no time to be content and just let the "inevitable" future unfold in front of our eyes. No! At some point, we need to enter deeper waters and push toward the edges of what is possible while teeter-tottering on the brink of transformation. Pushing further still are those who venture to the extreme edges of this learning planet. They might tap into virtual explorers, artists, archeologists, and adventurers to excite their learners. It is in such courses that scientific discoveries appear live and outside experts enter the learning situation at a moment’s notice to apprentice and guide learners. It is time to stretch toward the edges of learning from those of us tinkering on the shores to those whose learning approaches are tottering in new directions and even landing in totally extreme or alien lands. This talk will showcase examples from all three worlds - the world of the tinkerer, the totterer, and the totally extreme. In which world would you like to find yourself?

Presentation type	Keynote, breakout session, or workshop
Audience	All, though primarily higher education
Duration	45 minutes to 90 minutes
Handouts	Yes

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Prof. Curt Bonk of Indiana University will share his vision of Stretching the Edges of Technology-Enhanced Teaching. “Some insist, some resist, others persist,” says Curt. “Such is the state of online learning today.” But what is highly resistible for some K-12 technology leaders is often passionately irresistible for others. Many are content to tinker with blended forms of learning so as to avoid upsetting parents, colleagues, and teachers. School districts which tinker often dip their toes into the technology change movement by embedding shared online videos, simulations, timelines, collaborative groups, and open access materials in their courses. Other schools enter deeper waters and push toward the edges of what is possible. Their classrooms are teeter-tottering on the brink of transformation. They are flipping the classroom and granting learners more choice and autonomy. Then there are those who find themselves at the extreme edges of this learning planet. They might tap into virtual explorers, artists, archeologists, and adventurers as well as game-based learning and mobile applications to excite their learners. In such courses, momentous scientific discoveries and expeditions appear live in K-12 schools. It is time to stretch toward the edges of learning from those of us tinkering on the shores to those whose learning approaches are tottering in new directions and even landing in totally extreme or alien lands. This talk will showcase examples from all three worlds - the world of the tinkerer, the totterer, and the totally extreme. Curt asks “what do you see now most prevalent in your school district” and “In which world will you find yourself a few years from now?”

Presentation type	Keynote, breakout session, or workshop
Audience	All, though primarily higher education
Duration	45 minutes to 90 minutes
Handouts	Yes

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Some insist. Some resist. Others persist. Such is state of online learning today. But what is highly resistible for some is often passionately irresistible for others. Many are content to tinker with blended forms of learning. They dip their toes into the technology change movement by embedding shared online videos, simulations, timelines, collaborative groups, and open access articles in their courses. Others enter deeper waters and push toward the edges of what is possible. Their classes are teeter-tottering on the brink of transformation. Such instructors hand over the keys to their learners and let them drive for a bit. Not all instructors are so innovative. In fact, many students are unhappy due to bland online content and unimaginative activities. Too often online learning is too lock-step and mechanized. Today's students want hands-on activities where they produce something meaningful as well as time to explore the resources they find the Web. All these people tend to simply want more variety, or more specifically, they want 'TEC-VARIETY'. Bonk's new instructional design model for online learning -- TEC-VARIETY -- will break online instructors and students out of boring online learning. Each letter of the TEC-VARIETY model stands for a well-known motivational principle, including: Tone or climate, Encouragement or feedback, Curiosity, Variety, Autonomy or choice, Relevance and meaningfulness, Interactivity and collaboration, Engagement, Tension, and Yielding products and goal setting. Everyone is talking about the need to motivate and engage students. It is time to stretch toward the edges of learning from those of us tinkering on the shores to those whose learning approaches are tottering in new directions and even landing in totally extreme or alien lands that truly motivate students. This talk will showcase examples of how TEC-VARIETY can be incorporated in all three worlds - the world of the tinkerer, the totterer, and the totally extreme.

Presentation type	Keynote, breakout session, or workshop
Audience	All, though primarily higher education
Duration	45 minutes to 90 minutes
Handouts	Yes

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Open education was often laughed at or ignored until the emergence of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) with their tens--or even hundreds--of thousands of learners in a single course. Given the mass success of Stanford courses topping 100,000 each and startups like Udacity and Coursera as well as the announcement of edX (from Harvard and MIT), we can no longer look the other way. Still, many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education remain, such as those related to infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment, to name a few. Just how does an instructor or trainer keep thousands of students motivated and involved in such a course? And what are the more promising business models? In this talk, Bonk will detail his experiences in teaching a MOOC and offer guidelines for others hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment. A set of 10 key leadership steps and another set of 10 pedagogical principles will be outlined with examples. He will also map out a set of business plans and more than a dozen types of MOOCs. In the end, MOOCs and mass movement to open education will no longer be such mystery.

Three Overview Points:
1. Much experimentation with MOOCs and open education today; dozens of possible business models (advertisements, fees for completion certificates, pay as you go, company sponsored courses, assessment fees, etc.).
2. Will the certificates that students earn while taking MOOCs make traditional college degrees obsolete?
3. What steps might a company, government agency, or university take to be a leader in this movement toward MOOCs and open education?

Presentation type	Keynote, breakout session, or workshop
Audience	All, though primarily higher education
Duration	45 minutes to 90 minutes
Handouts	Yes

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Emerging technologies - such as virtual worlds, blogs, wikis, podcasts, e-books, digital object repositories, computer games and simulations, shared online video, and wireless and mobile computing - are generating waves of new opportunities in higher education, K-12 schools, corporate training, and other learning environments. However, the effective use of these educational technologies involves far more than simply shoveling tutorials, readings, and slideshows onto a web site or deciding to use a new technology in one's teaching. Instructors must be trained how to motivate online students as well as how to address their individual learning styles and adjust learning methods and assessment to the learner-centered expectations of Generation X and millennial students. As enrollments in online courses surge, today's students - immersed in an increasingly digital world - are seeking richer and more engaging learning experiences. Amid the rising tide of expectations, instructors are exploring innovative ways to use technology to foster interaction, collaboration, and excitement for learning. While we may not realize it, we have entered the perfect electrical storm, where technology, the art of teaching, and the needs of learners are converging. Now add to that stagnant or erased budgets--the fourth part of the perfect e-storm--that stand directly in the way of expensive technology purchases and risky program initiatives surrounding the other three storms. Given these monetary constraints, a new model from Curt Bonk called the Read, Reflect, Display, and Do (R2D2) model can address different student learning strategies or preferences while not costing much money to implement. To help those venturing farther into these uncharted waters, he will also highlight his most recent instructional design method for online motivation and retention called TEC-VARIETY. Each letter of the TEC-VARIETY model stands for a well known motivational principle (e.g., tone, encouragement, curiosity, variety, etc.).

Presentation type	Keynote, breakout session, or workshop
Audience	All, though primarily higher education
Duration	45 minutes to 90 minutes
Handouts	Yes

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience. Read article and view this presentation from The University of Calgary Learning Commons

Learn how to teach with technology and make the most of your limited instructional technology budget

Abstract: Part 1: In the first section of this talk, Curt Bonk will discuss the reasons for the growing demand related to Web-based learning. He will then highlight the emerging technologies with the biggest educational payoffs with the least educational payouts. As we all know, our students are living in a digital world and it’s our responsibility as educators to prepare them to be successful in that world. That means that we incorporate shared online video, digital portfolios, games and simulations, and social networking technology to enhance the curriculum and engage our students. But budgets are tight and getting tighter. How do we meet the needs of our 21^st century learners on a 20^th century budget? And where should we spend our money and focus our time? It’s a perfect storm of the electrical kind.

Part II: In the second part of this talk, Curt Bonk will discuss his famed R2D2 (Read, Reflect, Display, and Do) model for addressing diverse learners and learning styles or preferences as well as his popular online learning and retention model called TEC-VARIETY (e.g., tone, encouragement, curiosity, variety, autonomy, relevance, interactivity, engagement, tension, and yielding products, etc.). With R2D2 and TEC-VARIETY, Curt Bonk will provide dozens of pedagogical ideas and solutions that motivate students in the online learning environments and creatively engage them into deeper and better learning. No matter what planet you are on, these ideas and techniques can be linked student motivation, collaboration, interaction, and general engagement in the learning process.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Becomes aware of more than a dozen emerging learning technologies and how they can impact teaching and learning in a positive way.
2. Understands how technology and pedagogy link together to offer exciting learning possibilities.
3. Can build classes that can offer outlets for learning when traditional, classroom-based teaching is impossible.
4. Learns why online learning is popular in K-12 education as well as where it is headed.
5. Has solutions for different problems or situations from swine flu to earthquakes to winter storms.
6. Can design creative and engaging activities on extremely low budgets.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Building on Thomas Friedman's book, The World is Flat, Curt Bonk offers an intriguing look at ten technology trends which he called educational openers. When combined, the first letter of each opener spells the acronym: "WE-ALL-LEARN." This model helps make sense of the role of various technologies in open education, including open courseware, open source software, open access journals, open educational resources, and open information communities. As part of this, he will discuss e-books, podcasts, streamed videos, online learning portals social networking tools like Facebook and Ning, YouTube videos, wikis, and virtual worlds. With such technologies, thousands of organizations and scholars are sharing their course materials, expertise, and teaching ideas globally, thereby expanding learning opportunities and resources even further. As this occurs, members of the media, politicians, educators, students, parents, and others are asking important questions about the quality of such contents. Bonk also addresses questions related to the digital divide and how those without Internet access still benefit immensely from these open learning tools and resources. The economic world of Friedman may be flatter, but the educational world is definitely more open than it was a decade or even a few years ago. Open up and enjoy it!

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Building on Thomas Friedman's book, The World is Flat, Curt Bonk offers an intriguing look at ten technology trends which he called educational openers. As detailed in his new book, "The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education", when combined, the first letter of each opener spells the acronym: "WE-ALL-LEARN." E-learning and blended learning are key components that make up the second opener of this framework. Dr. Bonk will detail different blended learning approaches used in training settings as well as several blended learning problems and solutions. The WE-ALL-LEARN model also helps make sense of the role of various technologies in open education, including open courseware, open source software, open access journals, open educational resources, and open information communities. As part of this, he will discuss e-books, podcasts, streamed videos, online learning portals social networking tools like Facebook and Ning, YouTube videos, wikis, and virtual worlds. With such technologies, thousands of organizations, trainers, and scholars are sharing their course materials, expertise, and teaching ideas globally, thereby expanding learning opportunities and resources even further. As this occurs, members of the media, politicians, training departments, educators, students, parents, and others are asking important questions about the quality of such contents. Bonk also addresses questions related to the digital divide and how those without Internet access still benefit immensely from these open learning tools and resources. The economic world of Friedman may be flatter, but the educational world is definitely more open than it was a decade or even a few years ago. Open up and enjoy it!

Keywords: Open educational resources, blended learning and e-learning, open education, emerging technology, wikis, podcasts, virtual worlds, e-books, online language learning, open source software, collaborative technologies, mobile learning, personalized learning environments.

Associated Book: Curtis J. Bonk (July 2009). The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, a Wiley imprint. (Book homepage: http://worldisopen.com/)

Framework for Talk: The 10 doors for learning in the twenty-first century will be detailed which spell WE-ALL-LEARN.

Ten Openers: (WE-ALL-LEARN)

1. Web Searching in the World of e-Books
2. E-Learning and Blended Learning
   
   
3. Availability of Open Source and Free Software
4. Leveraged Resources and OpenCourseWare
5. Learning Object Repositories and Portals
   
   
6. Learner Participation in Open Information Communities
7. Electronic Collaboration
8. Alternate Reality Learning
9. Real-Time Mobility and Portability
10. Networks of Personalized Learning

    For example, what sorts of recommendations will you give to the audience?

    1. Instead of reaction to each new technology trend or idea individually, use frameworks to plan for technology integration.
    2. If something new arises that does not fit the framework, initially ignore it. Too much new technology emerges each week to pay attention to each one.
    3. Think about growing trends such as greater reliance on informal learning in the workplace and for all sectors of learning.
    4. Include ideas for offering open educational resources in strategic planning.
    5. The learning management system is giving way to personalized learning environments.
    6. Experiment with different blended models. There is no one best approach - it depends on audience, goals, content, time available, etc.
    7. Global and cross-cultural training and education is exploding as are the collaborative tools that make it possible. Think about the ways in which you might develop global training communities, feedback, collaboration, and interaction.
    8. Trainer jobs are changing. More emphasis on counseling, human development, mentoring, moderating, and guiding skills. We will soon see the rise of the super e-mentor and coaches.
    9. Be a leader in one or more trend areas. For example, offer courses, institutes, Webinars, and workshops on e-books, open education, personalized learning, global education, simulations, virtual worlds, etc.
    10. Experiment with wikis, Google Docs, and other tools for online collaboration; they change the training environment by empowering your employees and giving them a voice.

    What recent events or factors make the topic of importance?

    1. Economic crisis and budget cuts makes free and open technology appealing or at least more interesting.
    2. New announcements related to e-book readers and government initiatives for digital books.
    3. Continued interest in Thomas Friedmans book, The World is Flat. Many corporations, training organizations, and institutions of higher learning use it for retreats. However, only part of it addresses the needs of training and education.
    4. The recent explosion of online language learning. Millions of people now learn languages online and many of them teach a language online as well.
    5. Billions of people now have mobile phone access. How can training be delivered that way?
    6. The growing acceptance of the open educational resources (OER) and OpenCourseWare (OCW) movement started at MIT which hundreds of schools and institutions of higher learning have joined in. What might corporations, government and military agencies, and non-profit institutes do to join in the OER and OCW movement?
    7. The proliferation of tools for online collaboration and interaction.
    8. The growing emphasis in learning on-demand and in smaller chunks of knowledge.
    9. Resources like YouTube, Wikipedia, Facebook, and Blogger are what the Net Generation is using for their learning. It is time to reflect on how to incorporate them in instruction.
    10. A recent research report from the federal government indicates that blended learning results in the most powerful learning outcomes and fully online learning is better than face-to-face instruction.

    Goals of the Presentation: ("After participating in this talk, participants will be able to ...")

    1. Become aware of many recent technology trends impacting learning around the world.
    2. Acquire a framework to make sense of parallel trends in learning technologies.
    3. Have a wealth of Web resources for next steps and strategic planning (see http://worldisopen.com/).
    4. Understand the ways in which to make learning environments more blended, virtual, collaborative, personal, and mobile.
    5. Grasp new directions in open education and open educational resources.
    6. Reflect on how to employ emerging technologies from a pedagogical standpoint.
    7. Gain ideas for strategically planning new teaching and learning directions, including empowering learners and creating learner-centered instruction.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Hundreds of technologies exist for improving teaching and learning. There is one technology today that offers unique and inexpensive ways to change education and training across all sectors; namely, shared online video. There are video explanations, demonstrations, scenarios, documentaries, and lectures. Of course, there are videos appearing in the news each afternoon and evening which can serve to anchor one’s instruction and explain key concepts the following day in class. They come from places like NASA TV, Link TV, YouTube edu, CNN, the BBC, Google, TeacherTube, Academic Earth, Fora TV, etc. All of these exist for free and at a moment’s click. Importantly, there are many ways to use them for interactive, collaborative, and engaging instruction far beyond the talking heads of yesteryear. If you cannot find any, why then, just ask your students to produce them. It is time to create innovative courses, programs, and degrees which utilize open educational content related to images, animations, and shared online video content. As this happens, traditional education will be challenged. To cope with these fast-changing times, Curt Bonk will offer 10 ways to use shared online video from an instructor-centered point of view as well as 10 ideas from a student-centered perspective. In addition, he will discuss what shared online video means to others (e.g., administrators, bloggers, podcasters, librarians, informal learners, corporate trainers, foundation directors, the recently retired as well as the unemployed, etc.) while simultaneously offering several candid guidelines on the use of such finger-tip technology and knowledge.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: According to Thomas Friedman's book, The World is Flat, worldwide economic trends are flattening. In education, however, opportunities for learning are actually expanding or opening up through a myriad of emerging distance technologies. These opportunities can be seen in ten technology trends that spell the acronym: "WE-ALL-LEARN." Online content in the form of e-books, podcasts, streamed videos, YouTube videos, social networking, wikis, and alternate reality worlds continues to open new learning pathways. At the same time, more instructors are sharing their course materials and teaching ideas globally, thereby expanding learning opportunities and resources. And the software used to deliver such online learning contents and experiences is increasingly available as open source. Curt Bonk will address these issues while enticing participants to think of implications for their organizations, countries, and regions of the world as well as for themselves as leaders and learners. Note that the WE-ALL-LEARN model is described in Curt Bonks latest book, "The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education." This book is published by Jossey Bass in July 2009 and has a coinciding e-book with different content. The e-book and all book references and resources can be found at WorldisOpen.com. Extensive examples and advice will be provided.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: In The World is Open book, Bonk reviews ten technology trends he calls educational openers that form the basis of the WE-ALL-LEARN framework. There are thousands of people who have led the way for each one of these trends. These are the heroes, gurus, and revolutionaries of the shared Internet. In this talk, Bonk spotlights the ideas and interesting stories of a few of the heroes underlying each trend. These case anecdotes will help personalize and contextualize global technology events that are often too overwhelming and frustrating to keep track of. He also outlines some of the technology tools, resources, and services that are emerging with each opener to radically transform education. And he addresses questions about quality, openness, copyright, training, and so on that have arisen about the more free and open educational world. He also looks to the future and where this may eventually lead.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Teachers, technology coordinators, and principals are frustrated trying to keep up with the never ending parade of new learning technologies. So many choices! Add to that the scores of people saying teachers should embed them in their teaching. Then there are complaints that few teachers were trained on how to develop highly interactive and collaborative online activities and environments. Teachers are once again told that students will quickly complain about their classes if they do not address their learning preferences or appropriately use the technologies that they have access to outside of school. Time to pull the hair out? Not yet. There is hope. An innovative model called Read, Reflect, Display, and Do (R2D2) is detailed in Curt Bonk’s book, "Empowering Online Learning: 100 Activities for Reading, Reflecting, Displaying, and Doing." In this talk, Bonk will detail dozens of examples and ways to use R2D2 make your use of technology more engaging, empowering, and exciting. The R2D2 model can be expanded to meet your needs, no matter the discipline you teach or age of your students. As you will see, integrating technology need not be difficult. This four-part model not only simplifies the process, it can accelerate learning and provide a mechanism for discussing and sharing technology integration ideas with others. Perhaps it is time for you to taken an adventure to a new learning galaxy where you find R2D2 and begin using technology to address the diverse learners you find there.

Presentation type	Keynote, breakout session, or workshop
Audience	All, though primarily K-12 education
Duration	45 minutes to 90 minutes
Handouts	Yes

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: The educational world as well as the world of business is becoming increasingly global. Web technology can now be used to foster online collaboration, innovative instruction, and higher-order thinking. Such technologies connect people, classrooms, and communities in unique and important ways. As online learning technologies proliferate, the Web is better referred to as the Web of Learning. In this talk, Dr. Bonk will showcase a series of online resource and programs that are freely available for global and international education. Some examples will touch your hearts and souls. He will also offer frameworks to make sense of it all so that we can all GET-IT.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Hundreds of technologies exist for improving teaching and learning. There is one technology today that offers unique and free ways to change education and training across all sectors; namely, shared online video. There are video explanations, demonstrations, documentaries, lectures, and news stories. They come from places like NASA TV, Link TV, YouTube edu, CNN, the BBC, Google, TeacherTube, Academic Earth, Fora TV, etc. All of these exist for free. It is time to create innovative courses, programs, and degrees which utilize them. As this happens, traditional education will be challenged. This workshop will start with a gathering of participant opinions and voices about what this means for them. Audience questions and concerns will also be addressed.

After such interaction and brainstorming, Dr. Bonk will discuss several controversial scenarios that might result from the increasing use of shared online video in teaching and learning. He will describe around 40 popular shared online video sites (see http://www.trainingshare.com/resources/Summary_of_Ways_to_Use_Shared_Online_Video.htm). He will also offer 10 ways to use shared online video from an instructor-centered point of view as well as 10 ideas from a student-centered perspective. In addition, he will discuss what shared online video means to others (e.g., administrators, bloggers, podcasters, librarians, informal learners, corporate trainers, etc.). Dr. Bonk will also highlight his research on the motivational and instructional design aspects of popular videos in YouTube. He will explain why people watch, share, or create such online videos. In the end, the audience will brainstorm ways in which shared online video can transform their own teaching and learning settings.

Presentation type	Keynote, breakout session, or workshop
Audience	All, though primarily higher education
Duration	45 minutes to 90 minutes
Handouts	Yes

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

© 2013 by Curt Bonk. All rights reserved.

Video Primers in an Online Repository for e-Teaching and Learning (V-PORTAL) (Watch) Online learning is exploding around the planet from K-12 to higher education to corporate and government training environments. Everyone is attempting dealing with this teaching and learning transformation. The School of Education at Indiana University is no exception. As it expanded its online offerings, officials there asked were concerned that few faculty members had been trained how to teach online. The objective was high quality online course development and delivery. To address this issue, IU administrators asked Professor Bonk to create a series of short (10 minute or less) video primers on online teaching and learning. One year in production, these 27 videos were rolled out in late September 2010. They are dubbed the V-PORTAL or "Video Primers in an Online Repository for e-Teaching and Learning." The topics of the video in the V-PORTAL include managing an online course, providing feedback, building community, finding quality supplemental materials, online visual learning, podcast, wiki, and blogging tools and applications, blended learning, global connections and colorations, assessment, plagiarism, and trends for the future (see below for a complete listing). Issues, objectives, and examples for each topic are addressed in each of the 27 shows. Shared Online Video Series on Teaching Online, Indiana University, School of Education Video Primers in an Online Repository for e-Teaching and Learning (V-PORTAL). Watch & Find Resources (Firefox preferred): IU School of Ed Instructional Consulting Office): http://www.indiana.edu/~icy/media/de_series.html (includes feedback form, color PDFs of the slides for each presentation, and additional resources) For faster access, watch in Bonk’s YouTube Channel (use any browser): http://www.youtube.com/user/TravelinEdMan Read about Possible Uses: http://www.trainingshare.com/keynotes.php#htu Planning an Online Course Managing an Online Course: General Managing an Online Course: Discussion Forums Providing Feedback Reducing Plagiarism Building Community Building Instructor and Social Presence Online Relationships: Student-Student, Student-Instructor, Student-Practitioner, Student-Self Fostering Online Collaboration/Teaming Finding Quality Supplemental Materials Blended Learning: General Blended Learning: Implementation Blended Learning: The Future Online Writing and Reflection Activities Online Visual Learning Using Existing Online Video Resources Webinars and Webcasts Podcasting Uses and Applications Wiki Uses and Applications Blog Uses and Applications Collaborative Tool Uses and Applications Hands-On/Experiential Learning Coordinating Online Project, Problem, and Product-Based Learning Global Connections and Collaborations Assessing Student Online Learning Ending, Archiving, Updating, and Reusing an Online Course Trends on the Horizon Note: These 27 video primers designed during 2009-2010, finalized and announced October 2010. How to Use: Whether you are interested in emerging technologies or innovative pedagogies, this video primer series is for you, What's more, you can watch them on the Web for free from anywhere in the world. You can view them while sitting at home in your pajamas and fuzzy slippers while sipping some hot chocolate, eating lunch at your office desk, or relaxing at a mountain or lakeside retreat. Each lesson is delivered to you in 10 minutes or less. You might give certificates out to employees who watch and reflect on how they might use ideas found in each one of them. Alternatively, you can request Curt Bonk, the host and developer of all 27 shows, to give you and your staff a personal overview of any of these topics. Such a session--live or online--might last just 15 or 30 minutes or expand into a 1, 2, or 3 day workshop. In any case, your instructors, instructional designers, and administrators will be much better prepared for the highly interesting and complex world of online teaching and learning. Enjoy these free video primers in the V-PORTAL! Nowhere else on the planet will you find such an assembly of knowledge related to online teaching and learning. Ten Ways to Use: Instructor training: present videos to online instructors for reflection. Workshops: the 27 video primers might be embedded in brief or extended workshop. Certification: design activities related to the videos as part of a larger training program. Student courses: videos could be used as supplements to course readings related to new or emerging technologies, online teaching and learning, and blended learning. Personal exploration: dig into an area of interest. Discussion: present a video for 10 minutes followed by 5-10 minutes or more of discussion or reflection activities. Debates: these resources might jump-start debates on new courses, programs, or initiatives. Strategic planning: these videos might be used to highlight potential areas related to online learning that a department, program, school, university, corporation, or organization might head. Retreats: the contents of the V-PORTAL might find its way into faculty or administrator retreats. Accomplishments: organizations and institutions might compare the ideas in these videos to areas of strength as well as weaknesses or areas in need of further development. Important Acknowledgment: I want to acknowledge and publicly express thanks to the School of Education at Indiana University in Bloomington which funded this highly valuable and momentous production effort. In particular, the IU School of Education Instructional Consulting office and the Instructional Systems Technology (IST) Department played key roles in their planning, generation, and dissemination. Permissions Note: You have permission to make a Web link to these videos, share information about these contents with others, or translate the contents to another language, as long as the contents (i.e., the movies) included here abide by the Creative Commons license notes below. As a courtesy to the Indiana University School of Education and Dr. Curt Bonk, the host of the 27 video primers, please send an e-mail to Professor Bonk (cjbonk@indiana.edu) to let him know how you are using these learning resources (i.e., the intended purpose) as well as who is using them. Thank you. These videos are available under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 license. For more information, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Alternative Access Sites: King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia; http://elc.kku.edu.sa/en; http://elc.kku.edu.sa/en/27-videos-for-teaching-online Translation: http://elc.kku.edu.sa/27-videos-for-teaching-online As a courtesy to the Indiana University School of Education and myself (Dr. Curt Bonk, the host of the 27 video primers), please send me an e-mail at (cjbonk at indiana dot edu) or to the Instructional Consulting office in the IU School of Education (ic@indiana.edu) to let us know how you are using these learning resources (i.e., the intended purpose). You might also state who is using them. Thank you.