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Year
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Technological
Innovations and Experimentations
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Ambitions,
Accomplishments, & Awards
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Entered field of Business
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1977
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Designed
first computer program in BASIC as a high school senior.
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Entered
accounting program UW-Whitewater
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1978
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Helped
streamline production and inventory control record keeping.
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McQuay-Perfex
(expedite product thru plant; as teen)
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1979
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Helped
automate production and inventory control record keeping.
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Square
D Company (production control--summer).
|
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1980
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Helped
automate production and inventory control record keeping.
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Square
D Company (production control--summer).
|
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1981
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None
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BA
& Passed CPA exam, Vrakas Blum & Co.
|
|
1982
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None
|
Vrakas
Blum & Co as auditor and tax accountant
|
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1983
|
Automated
all company financial systems, $10 million,
|
Hired
as Corporate Controller R&J Medical Supply.
|
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1984
|
Automated
company financial systems—timeshare system, $15 mil.
|
CPA
License/Asst Controller of Automated Systems
|
|
1985
|
Migrated
ASI financials to a personal computer–budgets, cash flow.
|
Took
TV/correspond courses & applied grad school.
|
|
Left business career
in January 1986 for grad school in field of Education
|
|
Year
|
Technological
Innovation
|
Ambitions,
Accomplishments, & Awards
|
|
1986
|
Created
two video documentaries (mental institute & research parks)
|
Entered
graduate school at Wisconsin January 1986.
|
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1987
|
Designed
4 summer computer camps in Wisconsin communities.
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Master’s
degree Dec 1987; div/convergent software.
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|
1988
|
Co-created
nationally distrib telecourse on critical thinking, UW.
|
Entered
Ph.D. program January 1988. First pub.
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1989
|
Co-developed
keystroke mapping and computer prompting system.
|
Completed
doctoral program July 1989 (APA funds).
|
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Summer of 1989 Left
UW Madison and moved to West Virginia University
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Year
|
Technological
Innovations and Experimentations
|
Ambitions,
Accomplishments, & Awards
|
|
1990
|
Created
James Paige Learning Ctr & computer lab, Wheeling, WV.
|
Co-directed
Project YES (inner city youth services).
|
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1991
|
Testing
the “Knowledge Builder” and other collab writing tools.
|
Secured
educational software donations from Apple.
|
|
1992
|
1.
Classroom of the Future at WVU—3 yrs (Chair of Committee)
2.
Coined term “cooperative hypermedia” (see 1994 publication).
|
1.
Zenith Computer Masters of Innovation 1st Place.
2.
Edit special journal issue on Computers & Writing.
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Summer of 1992 Moved
to Indiana University
|
|
Year
|
Technological
Innovations and Experimentations
|
Ambitions,
Accomplishments, & Awards
|
|
1993
|
Taught
perhaps first blended learning course in the IU Sch of Educ.
|
Computer
Conf & Collab Wrtg (CCCW) Group at IU
|
|
1994
|
Project
Blue Skies with kids in rural, urban, suburban Indiana.
|
First
publication on cooperative hypermedia:
|
|
1995
|
Combined
2 videoconferencing systems: CU-SeeMe and PictureTel.
|
First
plenary session: CSCL Conf., Bloomington, IN.
|
|
1996
|
First
faculty fellow for tech research in IU SOE Center for Ex in Ed.
Conferencing
on the Web (COW) case learning with IU preservice teachers (1996-2001)
|
Publication
on combining 2 videoconf systems.
|
|
1997
|
Taught
second fully online courses in SOE at IU, “the Smartweb” for ed psych
students; Developed suite of Web tools for LMS.
|
Proffitt
Grant, Web Conf for Preservice Teacher Ed
|
|
1998
|
1.
Developed the “Bobweb” (R546; Grant Continuing Studies Dept).
2.
Web & Videoconferencing in Preservice Teacher Training grant.
3.
TICKIT project for rural Indiana teachers. Funded 5 years.
4. Developed
INSITE Web site to support ed psych textbook (a first)
5. TITLE
Project: The Intraplanetary Teacher Learning Exchange.
6.
Developed Caseweb; set of cases for educ psych, Funded IU.
|
1.
Co-authored proposal CRLT, IU (I’m last founder)
2.
Edited “Electronic Collaborators,” all IU authors.
3.
Cited as a Breakthrough Book” digital tech in HE.
|
|
1999
|
1.
Devel of first online ed psych reader/coursepack, Bell &
Howell.
2.
Founded CourseShare, LLC for course and resource sharing.
|
1.
Senior Research Fellow, U.S. Army Research Institute, Consortium Research
Fellows Program.
2.
Burton Gorman Teaching Award, IU School of Ed.
|
|
2000
|
1.
Funded/dev, free sharing portals, InstructorShare, ResourceShare.
2. Technology
contributor for major undergraduate textbook Psychology Applied to
Teaching, Boston, MA; Houghton Mifflin.
|
Wilbert
Hites Mentoring Award, First Recipient, IU.
|
|
2001
|
1. Developed
free sharing portals, BookstoreShare, UniversityShare.
2. TITLE/COW
case learning project on the Web with preservice teachers ends.
|
1.
Army Study Highlights award, Applying Collab and e-Learning Tools to
Military Dist Lrng: A Research Framework by Curt Bonk & Robert Wisher
2.
National surveys of online & blended learning in HE and corp training,
Jones Knowledge, Denver, CO.
|
|
2002
|
Funded/devel
free sharing portals, LibraryShare, TrainingShare.
|
CyberStar
Award, Indiana Info Tech Assoc (INITA), Indy, IN. Award for: “Educ Contrib
to IT in HE.”
|
|
2003
|
1.Founded,
funded, and developed SurveyShare (over 100,000
surveys created; millions of survey respondents); sold in 2010.
2.
TICKIT project for rural Indiana teacher technology training ends.
|
1.
Senior Research Fellow, U. S. Dept. of Defense, ADL Lab, Dept. of Defense, Research
on MMOG.
2.
Most Outstanding Achievement by an Individual in Higher Ed Award, US
Distance Learning Assoc.
Innovative
Teaching Award: Teaching in Distance Ed Prog. Indiana
Partnership for Statewide Ed, IHETS.
|
|
2004
|
1.
Features added to SurveyShare.com & usability testing.
2.
Designed TEC-VARIETY framework for motiv online learners.
|
1.
Kelley Direct online MBA research team at IU.
2.
The Perfect E-Storm, Commissioned paper, Observatory on Borderless Higher Ed,
London, UK.
3.
Alumni
Achievement Award,
U of Wisc. Sch of Ed
|
|
2005
|
Funded
development of initial prototype for QuizShare.com
|
1.
Commisioned by U.S. DOD: Massive multiplayer online gaming: A research
framework for military educ and training. Adv Distrib Lrng (ADL)
Initiative.
2.
Int’l surveys conducted on blended learning in corp training in Korea, China,
Taiwan, the UK, & USA.
|
|
2006
|
1.
Overhaul and features upgrades added to SurveyShare.com.
2.
Initial pilot of wikibooks (IU & University of Houston).
|
1.
Outstanding Paper Award, Does sense of community matter? E-Learn 2006, Honolulu,
Hawaii.
2.
Published: The Handbook of Blended Learning: Global Perspectives, Local
Designs.
|
|
2007
|
Coordinated
cross-institutional and cross-cultural wikibook projects (China, Malaysia,
Taiwan, IU, U of Houston, & Indiana State U).
|
Class
Wikibooks produced:
1.
The
Web 2.0 & Emerging Lrng Tech (The WELT).
2.
The Practice of Learning Theories (The POLT).
|
|
2008
|
Developed
R2D2 Model (Read, Reflect, Display, and Do).
Produced
8-pack of learning theory video lectures
|
1.
Published: Bonk
& Zhang (2008). Empowering
Online Learning: 100+ Activities for Reading, Reflecting, Displaying, &
Doing.
Jossey-Bass.
2.
Major Preconference Symposium Co-Coordinated: International E-Learn
Conference, Topic: E-Learning in Asia (2008, Las Vegas)
|
|
2009
|
Published:
The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education.
Jossey-Bass. (Homepage: http://worldisopen.com). (WE-ALL-LEARN
framework).
|
1.
Executive Committee Chair, Advisory Board, E-Learn Conference, AACE.
2.
Bonk, Lee, & Reynolds (Eds.) Special Issue and book: A
Special Passage through Asia E-Learning.
3.
Outstanding Paper Award, Wikibooks and Wikibookians: Loosely-Coupled
Community or the Future of the Textbook Industry?, Ed Media.
|
|
2010
|
Produced
27 free online teaching training videos (over 165,000 downloads): Video
Primers in an Online Repository for e-Tchg & Lrng (V-PORTAL). https://www.youtube.com/user/TravelinEdMan
|
Conference
Co-Founder & Executive Committee, Global Learn Asia-Pacific: Global Conf
on Learning & Tech, AACE (First held Penang, Malaysia).
|
|
2011
|
Coined
the term “extreme learning” and led of a research team of over 20 people to
conduct research on it.
|
The
World is Open book
is translated to Chinese (Bestseller 20,000 sold) and Arabic.
|
|
2012
|
Taught
first MOOC at IU and Blackboard, Blackboard/CourseSites, Instructional
Ideas and Tech Tools for Online Success.
|
IAP
DDL Dist Ed Journal Article Award, 2012-First Place for “Advancing Practice,”
Div of DL of AECT.
|
|
2013
|
Pilot
tested new tool at the E-Learn Preconference called Flipgrid (now owned by
Microsoft and used by hundreds of millions)
|
Major
Preconference Symposium Co-Coordinated: Int’l E-Learn Conf, MOOCs & Open
Ed (Las Vegas)
|
|
2014
|
Published
free Digital Textbook: Adding Some TEC-VARIETY: 100+ Activities for
Motivating and Retaining Learners Online: http://tec-variety.com/; 250,000+
downloads.
|
1.
Mildred B. and Charles A. Wedemeyer Award for Outstanding Practitioner in
Distance Educ Award
2.
Outstanding
Contribution to Education, Global TechLearn Congress and Awards, Mumbai,
India.
|
|
2015
|
Developed
MOOCsbook.com website for three MOOCs and Open Education books published in
2015 & 2020. http://moocsbook.com/
|
1.
Chinese Translation (free download): Adding Some TEC-VARIETY book.
2.
In
June 2015, I gave 18 talks at 12 universities in 6 cities in China (Hong
Kong, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Beijing).
3. Published MOOCs & Open Ed Around
the World. Routledge. (also translated to Korean and Chinese)
4. Published MOOCs and Open Education. Special issue of IJEL
and book with AACE.
|
|
2016
|
Featured
in blended learning program, PBS Cincinnati, “Putting the Blend in
Blended Learning,” Public Media Connect--CET/ThinkTV.
|
1.
AECT Division of Distance Learning (DDL) Distance Education Book Award. 2016
-- First Place. MOOCs
and Open Education Around the World.
2.
AACE Fellowship Award "In Rec of Outstanding Leadership &
Service to the Profession & AACE."
3.
Outstanding
Contribution to eLearning, Global TechLearn Congress and Awards, Mumbai,
India
|
|
2017
|
Master’s
student training videos, MOOCs and Self-directed Learning, Universitat
Oberta de Catalunya (i.e., the Open University of Catalona), Barcelona,
Spain.
|
1.
Online Lrng Journal Outstanding Research Achieve Award in Online Ed, Online Lrng
Consort.
2.
Preconference
Symposia Coordinated: E-Learn Conf, MOOCs and Open Education in Dev World.
|
|
2018
|
Combined
two videoconferencing systems in Room 2101 of the School of Education to
being in guest speakers from around the world—Cisco Crestron system and Zoom.
|
RHSU
Edu-Scholar Public Presence Rankings (top 200 list from over 20,000 university-based education scholars in
the USA). Made list from 2012-2018.
|
|
2019
|
Combined
two videoconferencing systems to being in guest speakers from around the
world—Cisco Crestron system and Zoom.
|
Co-edited MOOCs and open education
in the Global South: Challenges, successes, and opportunities.
|
|
2020
|
Co-host
of “Silver Lining for Learning” weekly Webcast series discussing the future
of education.
|
1.
IU President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Technology.
2.
Co-edited ETR&D special Issue on Systematic Reviews of Research on
Learning Environments and Technology.
3.
Research Associate, Contact North, Ontario, CA.
3.
Featured in a series of frontpage stories on Future of K-12 Education, Herald
Times.
4.
Reached goal of 20 publications in 2020.
|
|
2021
|
1.
Season
#2 of “Silver Lining for Learning” weekly Webcast series (with Curt Bonk,
Chris Dede, Punya Mishra, and Yong Zhao), discussing the future of education.
- Pilot
testing technology in Woodburn Hall Room 203--the ALCOVE (Active
Learning Classroom of Valuable Experiences) from UITS at Indiana
University.
- Expanded
self-directed learning (SDL) research to youth in Nepal learning from
MOOCs and people using Duolingo
|
- David
H. Jonassen Excellence in Research Award, AECT, Chicago, IL.
- AECT
Division of Distance Learning (DDL) First Place Journal Article Award
with former IST student, Dr. Min Young Doo. “A meta-analysis of
scaffolding effects in online learning in higher education. IRRODL.”
|
|
2022
|
- Continued
to pilot testing technology in Woodburn Hall Room 203--the ALCOVE
(Active Learning Classroom of Valuable Experiences) from UITS at IU.
- Season
#3 of “Silver Lining for Learning”
|
2022 Books
- Book
published January 2022 by Pawan, F., Daley, S., Kou, X., & Bonk, C.
J. (2022). Motivation
and online language teaching and learning. DC:
TESOL.
- Co-edited
book of stories of Fulbright teachers by Bonk, C.
J., & Zhu, M. (Eds.). (2022): Transformative
Teaching Around the World: Stories of Cultural Impact, Technology Integration,
and Innovative Pedagogy,” NY: Routledge.
- 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/;
EdTechBooks: https://edtechbooks.org/motivating_and_supporting_online_learners; DOI 10.59668/699
|
|
2022
|
|
2022 Awards and Recognitions
1. Awardee, 2022 Outstanding Digital Learning Artifact Award
(for Silver Lining for Learning podcast show), AECT, Las Vegas,
Nevada, October 27, 2022.
2. Awardee, AECT
Distinguished Development Award (for Silver Lining for Learning podcast
show), awarded by ETR&D. AECT, Las Vegas, Nevada, October
25, 2022.
3. Awardee, Outstanding
International Engagement Award, Indiana University School of Education. April
29, 2022.
4. Fellow Awardee, American
Educational Research Association (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
5. 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.
6. Inaugural
GOTEC Fellow, Global Online Teacher Education
Center (GOTEC) Program, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.
|
|
|
• “Silver Lining
for Learning” weekly Webcast Show Season #4.
• Incorporated
Generative AI into a Series of Assignments.
|
2023 Books and Special Issues
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; EdTechBooks:
https://edtechbooks.org/online_learning_journal_27_1; DOI: 10.24059/olj.v27i1.3887
2023
Awards and Recognitions
1. Fellow Awardee, Online
Learning Consortium (OLC). Recognized for “Extraordinary Global Leadership
and Contributions to the field of Online and Blended Learning.” OLC
Accelerate Conference, Washington, D.C., October 25, 2023.
2. Awardee, AECT Annual Achievement Award: For Accomplishments
Advancing the ECT Field. Association for Educational Communications
and Technology (AECT), Orlando, FL, October 18, 2023.
3. Awardee, USDLA
Excellence in Distance Learning Research Award in Higher Education,
United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA), Orlando, FL, July 19, 2023.
4. Awardee (with
Min Young Doo, Kangwon National University, Korea), Outstanding
International Research Collaboration, American Educational Research
Association (AERA), Chicago, IL, April 13, 2023.
5. Listed
in the Elsevier and Stanford University list of top 2% of scientists in the
world based on publication citations for career. October 4,
2023.
6. AECT
Culture, Learning, and Technology (CLT) Division, Outstanding Book Award, Transformative
Teaching Around the World: Stories of Cultural Impact, Technology
Integration, and Innovative Pedagogy. AECT 2023, Orlando, FL. October
16, 2023.
7. AECT Research
and Theory Division
Outstanding Conference Proposal. Chen Feng, Zixi Li, Xiaoying Zheng, &
Curtis J. Bonk (2023).
"Investigating the Self-Directed Learning Process in Argentine Tango
Learning." AECT 2023, Orlando, FL. October
16, 2023.
8. Distinguished
University Scholar, American University of Cairo, Cairo, Egypt.
9. PSU Virtual Visiting Professor Program, PSU Open Mobility
Project, Prince of Songkla University (PSU), Thailand.
10. Listed
in Top Social Scientists and Humanities Scientists in the United States and
the World, Research.com, https://research.com/university/social-sciences-and-humanities/indiana-university;
Social Scientists at Indiana University: https://research.com/university/social-sciences-and-humanities/indiana-university
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|
2024
|
• Season #5 of
“Silver Lining for Learning”
• Pilot test
Microsoft Copilot.
• Expanded
Generative AI
Pedagogical Experimentation
|
1.
Nominated,
Outstanding Research Award, IU School of Education (pending).
|