Curtis J. Bonk, Indiana University, School of
Education
Instructional Systems Technology (IST) Department
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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. In October 2023, the Online
Learning Consortium (OLC) made him an OLC Fellow, while AECT awarded him their prestigious
Annual Achievement award as well as an Oustanding Book Award for his 2022 book
with Dr. Meina Zhu for their book, Transformative Teaching Around the
World: Stories of Cultural Impact, Technology Integration, and Innovative
Pedagogy. Curt is the author of more than 400
publications including over 20 widely used technology and learning related
books, such as 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 nearly 1,900
presentations around the globe related to online teaching and learning,
including over 320 keynote and plenary talks in places like Bangkok, Thailand, Cairo,
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/.