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Curt Bonk left the business world in the mid 1980s, where he had been a CPA and corporate controller. Curt decided to pursue an educational psychology graduate program at the University of Wisconsin. His colleagues wanted flexible and creative employees who could look beyond the numbers in an information- based economy. Dr. Bonk became interested in whether education or psychology could inform the development of higher-order thinking skills and teamwork. What professor Bonk found was that students were not being properly prepared for the new world-wide marketplace. Instead, most educational institutions emphasized the memorization of facts and the acquisition of relatively isolated sub-skills. Most teachers Dr. Bonk observed stressed individual learning over cooperative learning. The e-learning professor believes that human learning is largely a social enterprise and most human labor is performed more effectively by teams. Dr. Bonk's research, teaching, and service efforts at major universities over the past decade have been in response to these e-learning interests and discoveries. |
