April 3, 2023
Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae (10 page)
Curtis J. Bonk, Professor
School of Education: Room
2238
Instructional Systems Technology Department
Indiana University
201 N. Rose Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47405-1006
Mobile: (812) 322-curt (2878)
Email(s): cjbonk@indiana.edu;
curt@curtbonk.com
Personal Homepages: http://curtbonk.com/;
and http://CourseShare.com
Career Dossier (new): http://curtbonk.com/career/
Google Scholar:
h-index = 68; i10-index = 176; citations = 25,000+
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dsdG3ewAAAAJ&hl=en
Social Media:
Orchid: 0000-0002-6365-9502
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/curtis-bonk-08744/
Twitter/Skype: TravelinEdMan: https://twitter.com/travelinedman
YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TravelinEdMan
SuperTravelinEdMan (videos): https://www.youtube.com/c/Trainingshare
Silver Lining for Learning weekly Podcast/Webcast show:
https://silverliningforlearning.org/
Education
Ph.D., 1989, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Educational
Psychology (minor Educational Technology)
M.S., 1987, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Major: Educational
Psychology.
B.A., 1981, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater; Major:
Accounting. (3.83 G.P.A. Magna Cum Laude)
Professional Experience
2005-present Professor, Dept. of
Instructional Systems Technology (IST), SoE, Indiana University.
• Adjunct Faculty Member: IU Luddy School of Informatics,
Computing, and Engineering, 2002-present.
• Associate Faculty Member: IU Cognitive Science
Program, 1992-present.
• Affiliate Faculty:
Center for Computer-Mediated Communication, IU, 2014-present.
• Affiliate Faculty Member: Southeast Asian Studies
Center, Indiana U., 2014-present.
• Faculty Associate, Center for Int’l Ed, Devel
& Research (CIEDR), IU, 2015-2020.
2003-2005 Professor, Dept. of
Counseling and Educational Psychology, School of Ed., Indiana Univ.
• Adjunct Member, Instructional
Systems Technology Department, IU, 1999-2005.
• Core Member: Center for
Research on Learning & Tech (CRLT), IU, 1998-2005.
1997-2003 Associate Professor
(tenured in 1997), Dept. of Counseling and Educ. Psych, Indiana Univ.
• Faculty Fellow Tech Research: Center
for Excellence in Educ (CEE), IU, 1996-1998.
• Affiliate Faculty: Inner Asian
& Uralic National Resource Center, IU, 1998-2003.
1992-1997 Assistant Professor,
Dept. of Counseling and Educational Psychology, Indiana University.
1989-1992 Assistant Professor, Dept. of
Educational Psychology, West Virginia University.
1987-1988 Teaching Assistant,
Dept. of Cur. & Inst, Mainstreaming course, UW-Madison.
1986-1987 Project Assistant,
Gifted & Talented Outreach & Madison Extension, UW-Madison.
1984-1986 Assistant Controller,
Automated Systems, Inc., Brookfield, WI.
1983-1984 Controller, R & J Medical
Supply, Inc., Milwaukee, WI.
1981-1983 Auditor and Tax Accountant,
Vrakas Blum, Waukesha, WI.
1978-1980 Production Control Coordinator,
Square D Co. & McQuay Perfex, Milwaukee, WI.
Certification
1996 Certification
in Distance Education, Indiana University, Continuing Studies Dept.
1983 Certified
Public Accountant (CPA) License granted December 16, 1983.
Honors, Awards, and Recognitions
2023 Awardee (with Min Young Doo,
Kangwon University, Korea), Outstanding International Research Collaboration,
American Educational Research Association (AERA) TICL (Technology, Instruction,
Cognition, and Learning) SIG. Presented
at AERA, Chicago, IL, April 13, 2023.
2022 Awardee,
2022 Outstanding Digital Learning Artifact Award
(for Silver Lining for Learning podcast show), awarded by the AECT Learner Engagement Division. Presented at the 2022 AECT Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 27, 2022.
2022 Awardee, AECT Distinguished
Development Award (for Silver Lining for Learning podcast show), awarded
by ETR&D. Presented at the 2022 AECT Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 25, 2022.
2022 Award for Outstanding International
Engagement, Indiana University School of Education. Presented at the Celebration of Excellence, Bloomington,
IN, April 29, 2022.
2022 Fellow, American Educational
Research Association (AERA). Presented
at AERA, San Diego, CA, April 22, 2022. https://www.aera.net/About-AERA/Fellows/2022-AERA-Fellows#Bonk; Award Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCgh1zJ_C0c
2021 David H. Jonassen Excellence in
Research Award. Presented at AECT,
Chicago, IL, November 5, 2021.
2021 Made the Elsevier
and Stanford University list of top 2% of scientists in the world based on publication
citations for career. #150,475. Available: Updated Science-Wide author
databases of standardized citation indicators, October 19, 2021. Available: https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/3 and DOI: 10.17632/btchxktzyw.3, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000384
2020-2022 Contact North/Contact Nord, Research Associate, Ontario, Canada.
2018 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Presence Rankings
(top 200 list from over 20,000 university-based
education scholars in the USA), published in “Education Week.” (Note:
made this list each year from 2012-2018 (highest rank #69; only IU person in
Top 100.)
2017 Online Learning
Journal Outstanding Research Achievement Award in Online Education, Online
Learning Consortium, Orlando, Florida, November 16, 2017.
2016 AACE Fellowship Award "In Recognition of Outstanding
Leadership & Service to the Profession and AACE." Presented at
E-Learn 2016, Washington, DC, November 15, 2016.
2014 Outstanding Contribution to Ed,
Global TechLearn Congress, Mumbai, India, Nov 2014.
2014 Mildred B. and Charles A. Wedemeyer
Award for Outstanding Practitioner in Distance Education Award; Distance
Teaching & Learning Conference, Madison, WI.
2004 Alumni Achievement Award,
University of Wisconsin, School of Education
2003 The Most Outstanding Achievement by
an Individual in Higher Education Award from the United States Distance
Learning Association (USDLA), Washington, DC.
2003-2005 Senior
Research Fellow, US Dept of Defense, Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Lab.
2002 CyberStar Award, May 17, 2002,
Indiana Info Tech Assoc. (INITA), Indianapolis, IN. Award Winner for: “Educational
Contribution to IT in Higher Education.”
1999-2003 Senior
Research Fellow, U. S. Army Research Institute
1989 American Psychological
Association Dissertation Research Award.
1988-89 Univ. of WI Dissertator Fellowship,
WARF, University of WI-Madison.
Teaching and Mentoring
Recognitions
2020 President’s
Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Technology, Indiana
University,
April 17, 2020.
2013 Online resources from MOOC published
in MERLOT, Teacher Educ Editorial Board.
2009 Trustees'
Teaching Award, Indiana University, School
of Education.
2005 Trustees'
Teaching Award, Indiana University,
School of Education.
2003 Innovative Teaching Award: Teaching
in a Distance Education Program. Indiana Partnership for Statewide Ed, Indiana
Higher Education Telecommunication System Conference.
2000 Wilbert
Hites Mentoring Award, First Recipient, Indiana University.
1999
Burton Gorman Teaching Award in
the School of Education, Indiana University.
1997-1999 Teaching Excellence Recognition Award (TERA),
Indiana University.
Book and Paper Awards
and Recognitions
2022 Outstanding Student
Paper Award, Ed Media 2022, New York, NY. Zixi Li & Curtis J. Bonk (2022, June 21).
Supporting Learners
Self-Management for Self-Directed Language Learning: A Study within Duolingo.
2021 AECT Division of Distance Education (DDL) Journal Article Award—Quantitative
Based, First Place, AECT 2021, Chicago, IL. “A meta-analysis of scaffolding effects in online learning in higher ed.”
International Review of Research on Open and Distributed Learning,
2021 Nominated, Outstanding Research
Award, School of Education, Indiana University.
2020 AECT Division of Distance
Education (DDL) Outstanding Conference
Proposal (with Meina Zhu). “Students’ Self-directed
Learning Strategies in MOOCs.”
2016 AECT Division of Distance Learning (DDL) Distance Education Book Award. 2016 --
First Place. MOOCs and Open Education
Around the World, Las Vegas, NV.
2015 AECT Division of Distance Education (DDL) Journal Article Award—Quantitative
Based, Second Place, AECT 2015, Indianapolis, IN. “Understanding the Self-Directed Online Learning Preferences,
Goals, Achievements, and Challenges of MIT OpenCourseWare Subscribers.” Educational
Technology and Society
2015 Routledge “Author of the Month” for Education,
June 2015.
2015 Editors’
Choice Article, The Internet and Higher Education: “The tensions of transformation in three cross-institutional wikibook
projects.”
2012 IAP
(Information Age Publishing) DDL Distance Education Journal Article Award, 2012-First
Place for “Advancing Practice,” AECT, Louisville, KY.
2012 IAP,
Distance Ed Book Award, Third Place, The World is Open, AECT, Louisville.
2009 Outstanding Paper Award, Ed Media 2009,
Honolulu, Hawaii.
2008 Sloan-C Effective Practices recognition
for paper on synchronous teaching/learning.
2006 Outstanding Paper Award, Does sense
of community matter? An examination of participants’ perspectives in online
courses. E-Learn 2006, Honolulu, Hawaii.
2006 “Content analysis of online discussion
in an applied educational psychology course,” Instructional Science, Most
frequently downloaded article recognition.
2001 Army Study Highlights, Applying
Collaborative and e-Learning Tools to Military Distance Learning: A Research Framework
by C. J. Bonk & Robert A. Wisher (2000), Paper Selected for potential
impact on the Army & methodology used.
1992 Zenith Computer Masters
of Innovation IV Competition; 1st Place: Literacy. (Curt Bonk & Padma
Medury, The Future of Tech: Come SAIL Away with Cooperative Hypermedia.
Other Service Recognitions
2016 Outstanding
Reviewer, The Internet and Higher
Education, Elsevier.
2013 Outstanding Reviewer of 2012, Journal
of Applied Research in Higher Ed, Emerald.
2009 Executive Committee Chair, Advisory
Board, E-Learn Conference.
Visiting Professorships
and University Titles
2022-2023 Inaugural GLOTEC Fellow,
Global Online Teacher Education Center (GLOTEC)
Program, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.
2015-2018 Guest Professor, South China
Normal University, Guangzhou, China.
2007-2017 Visiting Professor, the University
of South Wales, Wales, UK.
2013 Visiting Scholar, November 2013, National
Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
2013 Visiting
Scholar, November 2013, National Sun Yat-Sen
Univ., Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
2013 Visiting Scholar, September 2013,
International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan.
2006 Visiting Scholar,
September 2006, Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland.
2001-2003 Adjunct
Professor at the Univ. of Akron as part of a faculty mentoring program.
2001 Visiting Scholar, June 2001, Univ. of
Tampere, Hypermedia Lab, Tampere, Finland.
2000 Visiting Scholar, August 2000, Univ.
of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
1998 Visiting Scholar, Nov. 1998, Simon
Fraser Univ. & Virtual Univ, Vancouver, CN
1997 Visiting Scholar, May 1997,
University of Oulu, Finland.
Student Dissertation Research and Advising:
Completed Dissertations: 128 = 4 at WVU + 118 at IU
(40 Chair) + 6 at other universities
Current Dissertations (in progress): 20 = 7 as Chair or Director + 13 as Member
Completed
Master’s Theses: 2 = 2 as Chair (1 at WVU; 1 at IU)
Research Funding,
Contracts, and Grants Received or In Review:
2023-2024 IU, Proffitt Grant, Nepali Adolescent Self-Directed Learning from MOOCs: $25,000 (in
review)
Exploring Changes in Career Aspirations and Higher
Education Goals
Authors: Curt Bonk (Lead PI), Zixi Li, Meina Zhu, &
Merve Basdogan.
2020-2021 Efficacy of Interactive Instructor-Made-Videos
towards Enhancing (Accepted)
Teaching and Learning in Online
Learning.
Funded by: Republic Polytechnic, Singapore (Funds = Course
Release)
Authors: Renee Kok, Curt Bonk, Christopher Tapia,
& Jimmy Lee
2019-2020 Using Live Video Chats with Experts and
Recorded Shared Online $1,000
Videos of Experts to Enhance Learner
Engagement
Funded by: IU School of Education: Learning and Teaching
With Technology (LTT) Committee
2007-2009 Leveraging Educational Technology to Keep
America Competitive $3,108,879
Jointly written and coordinated by
the IU Center for Evaluation and
Education Policy (CEEP) and the Granato
Group (DC))
Funded by: U.S. Dept of Education, Washington, DC
2004-2005 Coordinated research and evaluation project
on motivation and design $67,995
of online courses at ITT Technical Institute.
Funded by: ITT Educational Services, Indianapolis, IN.
(Curt Bonk, Lead evaluator and supervisor)
2003-2005 Dept. of Defense, Consortium Research Fellows Program, Advanced $25,025
Distributed Learning (ADL) Lab, research on educational and training
potential of massive multiuser online games; designed experiments; wrote
technical report; Authors: Bonk and Dennen.
2004-2004 The Observatory on Borderless Higher
Education, London, UK. $3,652
Commissioned paper: The Perfect E-Storm: Emerging
Technologies,
Enormous Learner Demand, Enhanced Pedagogy, and Erased
Budgets;
Author: Bonk.
2000-2003 Teacher Institute for Curric Knowledge
about Integration of Tech (TICKIT) $150,000
Funded: Arthur Vining Davis Foundations; Authors: Bonk
& Ehman
2000-2003 U.S. Army Research Institute, Consortium Research Fellows Program, $42,000
TrainToday,
Research projects on collaborative
learning technology in military settings.
2000-2001 Jones Knowledge.com, Denver, Colorado. $20,000
Commissioned research and survey reports, national
surveys on online learning in higher education and corporate training in United
States:
“Online Teaching in an Online World,” and “Online Training in an Online World.” Author: Bonk.
1999-2000 U.S. Army Research Institute, Consortium Research Fellows Program, $15,000
TrainToday, Research
on learner-centered framework for collaborative
Technology; major technical report; Authors: Bonk and
Wisher.
1999-2000 Teacher Institute for Curric Knowledge
about Integration of Tech. (TICKIT) $32,116
Funded by: Five School Districts; Authors: Ehman &
Bonk
1998-1999 Teacher Institute for Curric Knowledge
about Integration of Tech. (TICKIT) $37,898
Funded by: Ackerman Family Foundation (& Walden University)
Authors: Bonk, Ehman, & Risinger (Note: schools match
of $36,584)
1998-1999 Strengthening an Infrastructure in Support
of Research on the Linkage $50,000
of Learning Theory, Pedagogy, and Technology.
Funded by: Indiana University, Research in Graduate Studies.
Author: Barab (with Bonk, Cunningham, Duffy, Frick,
Keating, Pugh)
1998 IU Linking Learners,
Linking Teachers: Combining Web-Based $4,000
Learning and Videoconferencing in Preservice Teacher
Training.
Funded by: IU Ctr on Global Change, Title VI: Instruct
Tech. Pilot Projects
1998-1999 Extending Alter. Instructional Strategies
to the Virtual Indiana Classroom $5,000
Funded by: IU, The Alliance for Continuing
Professional Development
1997-1998 IU, Proffitt Grant, Web-Based
Conferences for Preservice Teacher $12,000.
Education: Electronic Discourse from the Field
1996-1999 IU Research and Univ. Grad. School (RUGS),
Preparing Future Faculty. $60,000.
Authors: Cunningham (Lead PI) and Bonk.
1995-1996 IU Intercampus Grant, Qualitative
Analysis of Learner-Centered Tool $10,000.
Adaptation in an Electronic Community of Elem St. Weather
Forecasters
1994-1995 IU InterCampuswide Research Grant, Embedding
Constructive Multimedia. $15,386.
Tools and an Electronic Community within an Elementary
Weather Unit.
1994 IU Campuswide Writing
Program: Summer Tchg-Writing Fellowship Grants. $1,500.
1993 IU, Kempf Research
Funding, Measuring Students' Perception of
Constructivistic Learning Environments: SCALE Refinement
& Validation. $10,000.
14.
+R Reed, W. Michael, & Bonk, Curtis J. (Eds.) (1992). Computer Use in the Improvement of
Writing. New York: Pergamon Press.
15. T. Clasen, D. R., & Bonk, C. J. (Compilers).
(1988). Teachers Tackle Thinking: Critical Thinking in the Classroom. Madison,
WI: University of Wisconsin-Extension. (Note: book created for a nationally distributed
telecourse).
Digital Books (+ = Reviewed;
T = Teaching):
16. +T Khoo, E., & Bonk, C. J. (2022). Motivating
and Supporting Online Learners. Burnaby, BC, Canada: Commonwealth of
Learning. Free book available: http://hdl.handle.net/11599/4481 and free course
available: https://colcommons.org/welcome/coursedetails/8; https://www.colvee.org/
17. T Plucker, J. P., Bonk, C. J., Brush, T. A.,
& Ottenbreit-Leftwich, A. T. (2009). A parent’s guide to the Internet
(written content). Published by the Department of Education, Office of Educational
Technology. Washington, DC: Author.
18. T Bonk, C.
J. with Kim, N. (2007, fall). The Web
2.0 and Emerging Learning Technologies (The WELT). Wikibooks. Available: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Web_2.0_and_Emerging_Learning_Technologies
19. T Bonk, C.
J., & Lee, M.-Y., with Kim, N. (2007, fall). The Practice of Learning Theories (The POLT). Wikibooks. Available: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Learning_theories_in_practice
20. +T Bonk, C. J., with
Fischler, R., Daytner, G., & Yamagata Lynch, L. C. (Eds.), (2000) Educational
Psychology Coursepack. Ann Arbor, MI: Bell and Howell Learning and Information Company (now XanEdu). (the first online reader in educational psychology)
Special Journal Issues Edited:
1.
Martin, F., Dennen, V. P., & Bonk,
C, J. (Eds.) (2023). Special Issue: Systematic
Reviews of Research on Online Learning. Online Learning Journal, 27(1). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24059/olj.v27i1.3887. Available: https://olj.onlinelearningconsortium.org/index.php/olj/issue/view/126. Entire issue with cover: http://www.publicationshare.com/34
2.
Martin, F., Dennen, V. P., &
Bonk, C. J. (Eds.) (2020). Special Issue: Systematic
Reviews of Research on Emerging Learning Environments and Technology. Educational
Technology Research and Development (ETR&D),
68(4).
3.
Lee, M. M., Bonk, C. J., Reynolds, T. H., & Reeves, T. C. (Eds.)
(2015). Special Issue: MOOCs and Open Education. International Journal on E-Learning,
14(3), 261-400.
4.
Bonk, C. J., Lee, M. M., &
Reynolds, T. H. (Eds.) (2009). Special Issue: A Special Passage through Asia E-Learning.
International Journal on E-Learning. 8(4), 1-160.
5.
Reed, W. Michael, & Bonk, Curtis
J. (Eds.) (1992). Special Issue: Computer
Use in the Improvement of Writing. Computers in Human Behavior, 8(1),
1-154.
Talks and Presentations
Summary
(as of April 3, 2023):
Conference Presentations: Int’l/National
and Other Presentations:
Conference Papers/Presentations
196 International/National 527
Present/Demo No Paper 39 State/Regional
57
Keynotes /Plenary Talks
319 Local 112
Invited/Special Conf Talks
243 Online Present/Webinars/Videoconfs 128
Workshops/Discussant/Other 153 Training
Videos (e.g., YouTube, etc.) 74
Total Conference/Main Talks
950 Total Int’l/National/Other Talks 898
Grand Total Talks and Presentations = 1,848
Recent
Journal Editor/Reviewer/Board Member: (Over
30 journals)
Book
Endorsements written (2001-2023): 39
books
Published
Reviews of my books (1999-2023): 43
reviews
Recent Board, Conference
Program, Commission, or Advisory Member:
2023-2023 Program Committee Member, 15th
Int’l Conference on Computer Supported Education.
2009-2023 E-Learn
Program Committee Member and Reviewer and former Program and Board Chair.
2012-2023 Exec Committee
Member, E-Learn Conf., Assoc. for Advancement
of Computing in Ed (AACE).
Sample Television, Film, DVD, Video,
and Webcam Appearances and Interviews
2020-2023 Co-host of “Silver
Lining for Learning” weekly Webcast series discussing the future of education
2019
Interview TV
documentary, “Digital Wave,” Educ Broadcasting System (EBS), Seoul, Korea.
2018
Inspiring Leaders—Curtis
Bonk,
Drexel University, March 7, 2018. Video (9:52)
2018
Video Interview,
TV program on U.S. Higher Ed and online learning, journalists from Uzbekistan.
2017
Interviewed for
master’s student training video, MOOCs, Open
U. of Catalona, Barcelona, Spain,
2017
Video Interview,
MOOC for PennGSE, Online Teaching
and Learning, Coursera, Donna Murdoch.
2017
Video Interview,
5th Int’l PBL Symposium 2017, Republic Polytechnic, Singapore, 2:45.
Sample Recent Radio, Podcast, and
Blog Appearances and Interviews
2023
Making
the Most of MOOCs, AACE Interview with Curt Bonk and Meina Zhu, AACE Review.
2022
Interviewed,
Multimodal Learning and Teaching, by Kenan Dikilitas, Univ. of Stavanger,
Norway.
2022
The
Leaders & Legends of Online Learning podcast, Mark Nichols, November 27, 2022.
2017
NPR panel, WFIU,
Indiana Public Radio “Noon Edition” on “Digital Tech Impact on Cog Devel.”
2016
Radio New Zealand,
E-Educator – Curt Bonk, by
Jessi Mulligan. April 18, 2016.
Sample Recent Newspaper, Magazine,
Journal, and Press Release Mentions and Interviews
2023
Quoted, “Free & Fee-Based Online Classes Expand Your Mind,
Job Prospects,” Ed Baig, AARP.
2020
Quoted, Interest in Online
Course Surges in Middle East,
Jeffrey Young, Al-Fanar
Media, Oct 12.
2020
Quoted, Coronavirus: Should
Bay Area kids return to class? John Woolfolk, Mercury News. Oct 10.
Professional Memberships:
1.
American Educational Research Association
(AERA) (Fellow since 2022)
2.
Association for Educational Communications
and Technology (AECT)
3.
Association for the Advancement of
Computing in Education (AACE) (Fellow since 2016)
4.
Online Learning Consortium (OLC)
5.
United States Distance Learning
Association (USDLA)