Dr. Curtis J. Bonk is a former CPA and corporate controller who, after becoming sufficiently bored with that, received his master's and Ph.D. degrees in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin. Curt is now a Professor of Educational Psychology as well as Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University (IU). He is also affiliated with the recently funded learning science program at IU as well as the new IU School of Informatics. He also is founding member of the Center for Research on Learning and Technology at IU and a Senior Research Fellow with the Advanced Distributed Learning Lab within the Department of Defense in DC. Curt received the Burton Gorman Teaching Award in 1999, the Wilbert Hites Mentoring Award in 2000 (first recipient), the CyberStar Award from the Indiana Information Technology Association in 2002, and the Most Outstanding Achievement by an Individual in Higher Education award from the U.S. Distance Learning Association in 2003. In 2003, he also received a State of Indiana award for Innovative Teaching in a Distance Education Program. From 1997 to 2000, he established "The Intraplanetary Teacher Learning Exchange" (TITLE), which was a unique international computer conferencing exchange and mentoring program for preservice teacher early field experiences. From 1998 to 2003, he co-designed and coordinated the "Teacher Institute for Curriculum Knowledge about the Integration of Technology" (TICKIT), which was a professional development program in technology integration for rural teacher educators in southern Indiana. During the past two years, Dr. Bonk has presented over 150 talks around the globe related to online teaching and learning, including ones at universities in New Zealand, Australia, Korea, Finland, and the United Arab Emirates. He has more than 100 publications on topics such as online learning pedagogy, collaborative writing technologies, synchronous and asynchronous computer conferencing, and frameworks for Web-based instruction and evaluation, including a 1998 book, "Electronic Collaborators" that was cited as a "Breakthrough Book" in Lingua Franca. Finally, he is President of CourseShare and SurveyShare and can be

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