Bonk background: This is the homepage of Curtis
J. Bonk, Ph.D. Curt is Professor at Indiana
University teaching psychology and technology courses. Curt is
affiliated with the cognitive sciences program and is adjunct in the School of Informatics at IU. He founded
SurveyShare, Inc. in 2003 which he sold in 2010. In addition, he has been
founder and president of CourseShare, LLC since
1999. Before coming to IU in 1992, Curt taught at West Virginia University for
three years. In the early 1980s, he was a CPA and corporate controller in
Wisconsin, while in the late 80s, he obtained his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in
educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (see bios for more detailed info). Professor Bonk firmly
believes in distance learning since he is a product of it. Curt is a popular conference speaker with
many books in the area of emerging technologies for learning (see
also Amazon author profile).
He is currently conducting research in the field of self-directed online
learning environments (SOLEs) and open education (including massive open online
courses (MOOCs)).
Curtis J.
Bonk is Professor in the School of Education at Indiana
University (IU) teaching psychology and technology courses and Adjunct in the
School of Informatics at IU. He is a former software entrepreneur, certified
public accountant, corporate controller, and educational psychologist who
presently is an educational technologist, award-winning writer, highly
published researcher, statewide and national awardee in innovative teaching
with technology, and internationally acclaimed presenter. In 2020, he was
awarded the IU President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Technology – and in 2021, received the David H. Jonassen Excellence in Research
Award. In April 2022, the American Educational Research Association named him a
2022 AERA Fellow for his exceptional contributions to, and excellence in,
education research and the following week he was honored with the International
Engagement award from the IU School of Education. In 2023, AERA awarded Curt
and his colleague Dr. Min Young Doo from Kangwon National University in Korea
with the Outstanding International Research Collaboration Award. Later that
year, the US Distance Learning Association honored him with a USDLA
Excellence in Distance Learning Research Award in Higher Education and
the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) made him an OLC Fellow. Curt is the author
of more than 400 publications including over 20 widely used technology and
learning related books, such as Transformative Teaching Around the
World (which received an Outstanding Book Award in 2023 from
AECT), Engaging Online Language Learners, The World Is Open, Empowering
Online Learning, The Handbook of Blended Learning, Electronic
Collaborators, Adding Some TEC-VARIETY, which is free as an
e-book (http://tec-variety.com/), and MOOCs
and Open Education Around the World as well as MOOCs and Open
Education in the Global South (www.moocsbook.com/). Across his career, Curt
Bonk has given over to 1,800 presentations around the globe related to online
teaching and learning, including over 340 keynote and plenary talks in places
like Bangkok, Thailand, Melbourne, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore,
Beijing, Toronto, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Madrid, London, Manila, Seoul, Tel Aviv,
Edinburgh, Dublin, Coimbra, Tampere, Barcelona, and Arequipa, Peru. He has
consulted with the CIA, NSA, Microsoft, Cisco, the Army Research Institute, the
U.S. Department of Defense, Blackboard, Sun, Saudi Aramco, Contact North,
McGraw-Hill Publishing, LG, Samsung, NASA, Intel, Defense Acquisition
University, and dozens of school districts, colleges, and universities. Curt Bonk co-hosts the weekly award-winning podcast show,
Silver Lining for Learning (https://silverliningforlearning.org/). He can be contacted at cjbonk@indiana.edu and
his homepage is http://curtbonk.com/.
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