. Newest 2022 Short Bio: 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, Curt was awarded the IU President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Technology and in 2021, he received the David H. Jonassen Excellence in Research Award. Curt is the author of nearly 400 publications and has given close to 2,000 talks around the world. He can be contacted at cjbonk@indiana.edu and his homepage is http://curtbonk.com/. . Newest 2022 Long Bio: Curtis J. Bonk is Professor in the Instructional Systems Technology Department in the School of Education and Adjunct in the School of Informatics at Indiana University (IU). Curt received his B.A. in accounting from the University Wisconsin-Whitewater. After becoming sufficiently bored with his past life as a corporate controller and CPA in the mid-1980s, he relied on distance education to take correspondence and television courses as well as outreach face-to-face courses at night to qualify for graduate school. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; the latter took him just 18 months to complete. With this background, Bonk offers unique insights into the intersection of business, education, psychology, and technology. After graduation in 1989, Curt Bonk spent three years on the faculty of West Virginia University in the department of educational psychology. He arrived at Indiana University in August 1992 exactly when the new IU School of Education building was opened to demonstrate and research the latest technology in education. A few years later, he was named the first and only faculty fellow for research in the Center for Excellent in Education (CEE) in that building. In the late 1990s, he was a founding member of the Center for Research on Learning and Technology (CRLT), which opened in the late 1990s to replace the CEE. In the first decade of the 2000s, Curt founded SurveyShare and CourseShare and created six other “share” sites such as TrainingShare, InstructorShare, PublicationShare, LibraryShare, QuizShare, and UniversityShare as an experiment. At that time, Bonk was also a Senior Research Fellow with both the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Lab within the Department of Defense as well as the Army Research Institute.  His academic interests are in online learning, massive open online courses (MOOCs) in the Global South, open education, collaborative technology, writing pedagogy and writing technologies, technology-enhanced global education, informal learning, emerging learning technologies, self-directed learning, online language learning, and blended learning. Bonk has been honored with a number of awards, including the Burton Gorman Teaching Award from the IU School of Education in 1999, the CyberStar Award from the Indiana Information Technology Association (2002), the Most Outstanding Achievement Award from the U.S. Distance Learning Association (USDLA) (2003), an Alumni Achievement Award from the University of Wisconsin (2004), and the prestigious Mildred B. and Charles A. Wedemeyer Award for Outstanding Practitioner in Distance Education in 2014. In 2016, Curt Bonk received the AACE Fellowship Award from the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education for his leadership and service to the field. Exactly one year later in November 2017, he was fortunate to be awarded the Online Learning Journal Outstanding Research Achievement Award in Online Education from Online Learning Consortium in Orlando, Florida. From 2012-2018, he was listed by Education Next and Education Week as a top 200 contributor to the public debate about education from more than 20,000 university-based academics. He was the first recipient of the Wilbert Hites mentoring award from IU in 2000, and, 20 years later, Curt was awarded the IU President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Technology in 2020 (short video, text); he was selected for both awards across the entire IU system of nine campuses. Most recently, Curt was honored to receive the David H. Jonassen Excellence in Research Award at the AECT Conference in Chicago in November 2021. Curt is the author of nearly 400 publications, including more than 130 journal articles as well as 65 book chapters and 20 books. He has authored many widely used technology and learning related books, including Transformative Teaching Around the World, 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 close to 2,000 presentations around the globe related to online teaching and learning, including over 300 keynote and plenary talks in places like Bangkok, Thailand, Melbourne, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Beijing, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Madrid, London, Manila, Seoul, Tel Aviv, Edinburgh, Dublin, Coimbra, Barcelona, etc. In addition to dozens of radio and television appearances, he has also been interviewed for articles and reports from the Wall Street Journal Online, The New York Times, China Daily, The Boston Globe, Education Week, US News and World Reports, Delta Sky Miles Magazine, AARP, The Seoul Economic Daily, The Central Intelligence Agency, the APA Monitor, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Sydney Morning Herald, and much more. Curt can be contacted at cjbonk@indiana.edu. His homepage is http://curtbonk.com/. . Preferred Bio: 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, Curt was awarded the IU President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Technology and in 2021, he received the David H. Jonassen Excellence in Research Award. Curt is the author of nearly 400 publications and has given close to 2,000 talks around the world. He can be contacted at cjbonk@indiana.edu and his homepage is http://curtbonk.com/. . Short Bio: Curtis J. Bonk is Professor in the Instructional Systems Technology Department in the School of Education and Adjunct in the School of Informatics at Indiana University. He teaches and researches at the intersection of educational psychology and educational technology. Curt can be contacted at cjbonk@indiana.edu. His homepage is http://curtbonk.com/. . Shortest Bio: Curtis J. Bonk is Professor in the School of Education at Indiana University who has authored nearly 400 publications and given closet to 2,000 talks around the world. Contact him at cjbonk@indiana.edu or http://curtbonk.com/. . Quick Bio: Curtis J. Bonk is a professor at Indiana University Bloomington who specializes research on nontraditional and informal learning at the intersection of psychology, technology, education, and business. Self-described as part accountant, part educational psychologist, part digital learning technologist, part global educator, part writer, part inspirational speaker, part creative pedagogist, part maverick, and part entrepreneur. You can contact him at cjbonk@indiana.edu or http://curtbonk.com/. . Longer Bio: Dr. Curtis J. Bonk is Professor at Indiana University teaching psychology and technology courses and President of CourseShare. Drawing on his background as a corporate controller, CPA, educational psychologist, and instructional technologist, Bonk offers unique insights into the intersection of business, education, psychology, and technology. His academic interests are in online learning, MOOCs, open education, collaborative technology, informal learning, emerging learning technologies, self-directed learning, and blended learning. He has authored many widely used technology books, including The World Is Open, Empowering Online Learning, The Handbook of Blended Learning, Electronic Collaborators, Adding Some TEC-VARIETY which is free as an eBook (http://tec-variety.com/), and MOOCs and Open Education Around the World as well MOOCs and Open Education in the Global South (http://www.moocsbook.com/). Bonk has published more than 130 journal articles and 60 book chapters. In 2020, Curt was awarded the IU President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Technology, and, in 2021, he received the David H. Jonassen Excellence in Research Award. Curt can be contacted at cjbonk@indiana.edu and http://curtbonk.com/. . Newest Long Bio: Dr. Curtis J. Bonk is Professor in the Instructional Systems Technology Department in the School of Education and Adjunct in the School of Informatics at Indiana University (IU). His academic interests are in online learning, massive open online courses (MOOCs), open education, collaborative technology, informal learning, emerging learning technologies, self-directed learning, and blended learning. He has authored many widely used technology books, including 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 (http://www.moocsbook.com/). He has published more than 130 journal articles as well as 65 book chapters and 20 books. In 2020, Curt was awarded the IU President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Technology, while in 2021, he received the David H. Jonassen Excellence in Research Award from AECT. Curt can be contacted at cjbonk@indiana.edu. His homepage is http://curtbonk.com/. https://honorsandawards.iu.edu/awards/honoree/9353.html . New Longest Bio: About Curtis J. Bonk, Professor, Indiana University Known for his extensive and ever-evolving instructional skills and innovation with technology in the classroom, Curtis Bonk has served as a model for pedagogical approaches in both online and classroom settings. He received his B.A. in accounting from the University Wisconsin-Whitewater in 1981 and received his M.S. and Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1987 and 1989 respectively. Curtis Bonk joined the Indiana University faculty in 1992 and was a founding member of IU's Center for Research on Learning and Technology (CRLT), which opened in the late 1990s. He is now Professor of Instructional Systems Technology in the IU School of Education. Bonk leverages teaching and learning technologies to provide cutting-edge, hands-on learning opportunities that are deeply valued by his students. In fact, in 2020, Curt was awarded the IU President’sAward for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Technology, while in 2021, he received the David H. Jonassen Excellence in Research Award from AECT. Bonk has written over a dozen books on using technology in online and blended learning (one of those books, “Adding Some TEC-VARIETY,” is free and has been downloaded more than 250,000 times; see http://tec-variety.com/). Bonk utilizes many of the included 200-plus pedagogical activities in his own classroom. Students gain insights on their own learning style, today's cutting-edge learning technology, and adapting to advances in the learning technology field. An international expert on emerging technologies for learning, Bonk has given close to 2,000 talks around the globe related to online teaching and learning. He has nearly 400 publications on topics such as online and blended learning, emerging learning technologies, self-directed learning, motivation, and massive open online courses. In 2009, he served on the Bloomington Campus e-Learning Taskforce to chart a course for the campus to increase online programs and degrees, which later became part of IU Online. Bonk offers unique insights into the intersection of business, education, psychology, and technology through an expert lens of instructional systems technology. In teaching and training the next generation of instructional designers and online learning leaders as well as preservice and inservice teachers in technology integration in the classroom, Bonk has truly contributed significantly to the enhancement of teaching through the innovative use of technology. He can be contacted at: cjbonk@indiana.edu and his homepage is: http://curtbonk.com/. . Curt Bonk Bio: 3 words (the “cut to the chase bio”) He does stuff. a. Curt Bonk Bio: 5 words (the “more explanatory bio”) He does lots of stuff! 11b. Curt Bonk Bio: 5 words (the “alternative bio with pics”) Dr. Bonk is a slug. . Curt Bonk Bio: 20 words (the “nickname bio with pic”) Curt connects people and things. In February 2011, Professor Rich Schwier at the University of Saskatchewan nicknamed Curt "The Node."

Curtis J. Bonk is received his master’s and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in educational psychology and his BA in accounting. He is now 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 Curt was honored with the International Engagement award from the IU School of Education. Most recently, he and his podcast team at Silver Lining for Learning (https://silverliningforlearning.org/) were named the 2022 recipients of the Distinguished Development Award from the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) and Educational Technology Research and Development (ETR&D).

Curt is the author of nearly 400 publications and has authored or edited 20 widely used technology and learning related books, including the bestseller in 2009/2011, The World Is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education. He has had three books published in 2022, including “Transformative Teaching Around the World: Stories of Cultural Impact, Technology Integration, and Innovative Pedagogy” which contains 41 short and emotional stories of transformative educational innovation and change in 22 countries from Curt Bonk’s former students. Other books include Engaging Online Language Learners, Empowering Online Learning, The Handbook of Blended Learning, and Electronic Collaborators. Bonk has also authored two free books on motivating online learners, Adding Some TEC-VARIETY: 100+ Activities for Motivating and Retaining Online Learners (http://tec-variety.com/), and Motivating and Supporting Online Learners (http://hdl.handle.net/11599/4481) He has also recently edited 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 300 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 co-hosts the award winning weekly podcast show, Silver Lining for Learning (https://silverliningforlearning.org/). In addition to dozens of radio and television appearances, he has also been interviewed for articles and reports from the Wall Street Journal Online, The New York Times, China Daily, The Boston Globe, Education Week, US News and World Reports, Delta Sky Miles Magazine, AARP, The Seoul Economic Daily, The Central Intelligence Agency, the APA Monitor, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Sydney Morning Herald, and much more. He can be contacted at cjbonk@indiana.edu and his homepage is http://curtbonk.com/. His mobile is 812-322-curt (2878).

Curtis J. Bonk first entered the business world in his late teens as a production control coordinator in manufacturing plants in Milwaukee. Soon after, he became a corporate controller and CPA, who, after becoming sufficiently bored with such work, attended night school and also took correspondence and TV courses in psychology to qualify for graduate school. He received his master’s and PhD degrees in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin in 1987 and 1989, respectively. After spending three years on the faculty of West Virginia University, Curt moved to Indiana University (IU) in 1992 as that campus was unveiling a fabulous new School of Education building funded to be a demonstration site for technology in education. Currently, Curt is Professor of Instructional Systems Technology in the School of Education at IU, adjunct professor in the IU School of Informatics, and an affiliate faculty member with four centers at IU. Across these affiliations Curt specializes in psychology and technology research topics and courses.

Curt Bonk is a prolific speaker and author, having given nearly 1,800 talks around the world and written more than 360 publications. Bonk has published 14 books, 128 journal articles, and 62 book chapters on research mostly related to various emerging learning technologies, online and blended learning, MOOCs and open education, computers and writing, and collaborative technology. His journal publications appear in many top ranked SSCI journals such as, British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET), IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (TLT), Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (ICAL), Educational Technology Research and Development (ETR&D), The International Review of Research on Open and Distributed Learning (IRRODL), Educational Technology and Society (ET&S), Written Communication (WC), The Internet and Higher Education (TIHE), Distance Education (DE), Instructional Science (IS), Journal of Computing in Higher Education (JCHE), Asia Pacific Education Review (APER), Journal of Educational Computing Research (JECR), and Computers in Human Behavior (CBE) as well as dozens of other prominent and popular journals in the field. Institutions and organizations that have invited Curt to speak include Stanford, Harvard Business School, Oxford, Cambridge, Intel, Sun, Cisco, Microsoft, Samsung, LG, McGraw-Hill, Trinity College, Manchester Business School, King Saud University, Dubai Women’s and Men’s College, Maricopa Community Colleges, the University of Texas Medical School, the National Security Agency, Seoul National University, International Christian University in Japan, Fort Sill, Fort Sam Houston, Tsinghua University, the Open University of Israel (and open universities in Malaysia, Korea, China, and the Philippines), Chulalongkorn University, Nanyang Technological University, and most of the Big 10 universities and hundreds more.

Curt Bonk’s innovative approach to technology-enhanced education is informed by his diverse background. For instance, using his business acumen, Curt founded SurveyShare in 2003 which he sold in 2010 and serves as the president of CourseShare since 1999. In addition, Curt offers unique insights into the intersection of business, education, psychology in his popular blog TravelinEdMan and he co-hosts a webcasted show, called Silver Lining for Learning, each Saturday on new educational models and approaches during the pandemic. In his talks and travels, he shares some of the latest pedagogical innovations of today, while also gazing into the future of education. As technology and expectations for online learning change (especially during the outbreak of COVID-19), online educators around the planet are looking for new ways to meet students’ desire for a more interactive, engaging learning experience. As he done for over a quarter century, during the spring and summer of 2020, Bonk has provided webinars, online workshops, and virtual conference keynotes related to fully online and blended learning to educators in Bangkok, Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Beijing, the Gulf Region/UAE, and a Cree Nation Community College in Canada, as well as teachers in the United States (New York City, Patterson, New Jersey, Long Beach, Fresno, Puerto Rico, and throughout the state of Indiana).

Curt Bonk taught one of the first blended learning courses at IU in 1993, perhaps the second fully online course in the IU School of Education in 1997, and first massive open online course (MOOC) for IU and Blackboard on how to teach online in 2012. With perpetual pedagogical innovations, he has been the recipient of numerous teaching and mentoring awards from IU, including the Burton Gorman Teaching Award (1999) from the School of Education and was the initial recipient of the Wilbert Hites Mentoring award (2000), an IU campuswide award. Another notable teaching award was the Innovative Teaching Award: Teaching in a Distance Education Program from the Indiana Partnership for Statewide Education, at the Indiana Higher Education Telecommunication System Conference (IHETS) at Ball State University in 2003. Most recently, in 2020, Curt was awarded the IU President's Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Technology, an award given across the entire IU nine campus system.

Curt Bonk has also been recognized for his research and his scholarship more generally. For instance, he was quite honored to receive the CyberStar Award from the Indiana Information Technology Association in 2002 for “Educational Contribution to IT in Higher Education” at a Oscar-like gala in Indianapolis. The following year, he was awarded “The Most Outstanding Achievement by an Individual in Higher Education Award” from the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) in DC. In 2004, Curt was the recipient of an Alumni Achievement Award from the University of Wisconsin School of Education and was asked to give the keynote talk at the ceremony, “The Perfect E-Storm.” Also attesting to his research reputation, he has been a Senior Research Fellow with both the Army Research Institute (1999-2003) and the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Lab within the Department of Defense (2003-2005). In November 2017, he was fortunate to be awarded the Online Learning Journal Outstanding Research Achievement Award in Online Education from Online Learning Consortium in Orlando, Florida.

More recently, Curt Bonk was recognized for his service and leadership to the field. For instance, he was awarded the prestigious Mildred B. and Charles A. Wedemeyer Award for Outstanding Practitioner in Distance Education in 2014 at the Wisconsin Distance Teaching and Learning (DT&L) Conference; he has also hosted the award ceremony at DT&L. In November 2016, he received the AACE Fellowship Award from the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education for his leadership and service to the field. In part, this award was for his efforts in co-founding and serving on the executive committee of two conferences in 2009-2010 for AACE (Global Learn Asia-Pacific Conference and Global TIME: Technology, Innovation, Media, and Education) and serving as Co-Program Chair for the International E-Learn Conference in 2008 and then becoming Executive Committee Chair of E-Learn from 2009-2012. He remains on the E-Learn Advisory Board since 2009. Curt has been consistently listed from 2012-2018 by Education Next and Education Week as a top 100 contributor to the public debate and discourse about education from over 20,000 university-based scholars.

To help ramp up educators across the globe to teach online, Curt Bonk has designed two powerful and popular frameworks for online learning, including his R2D2 (Read-Reflect-Display-Do) model (see his 2006 book, Empowering Online Learning with 100+ activities for teaching online with the R2D2 model) and TEC-VARIETY. His book, Adding Some TEC-VARIETY: 100+ Activities for Motivating and Retaining Learners Online, available for free in English and Chinese has been downloaded more than 250,000 times from http://tec-variety.com/. In 2010, he also recorded 27 short training videos for online teaching for the IU School of Education (i.e., Video Primers in an Online Repository for e-Teaching and Learning” (V-PORTAL)) that have been downloaded over 165,000 times.

His most recent book with 68 contributors detailing in 30 chapters what is happening in 47 countries, MOOCs and Open Education in the Global South, was published by Routledge in 2020 (for free frontmatter, see http://www.moocsbook.com/). Dr. Bonk’s widely acclaimed 2009 book, The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education (a bestselling book in China, 2011), as well as his award winning 2015 book with 64 contributors and 32 chapters, MOOCs and Open Education Around the World, provide glimpses of how this more free, open, and online learning age can reach those across every educational sector, age group, and learning need. Similarly, in his groundbreaking and highly cited 2006 book Handbook of Blended Learning: Global Perspectives, Local Designs, Curt and IST alum Charles Graham assembled another massive book with 81 people contributing to 39 chapters on blended learning models and approaches from institutions and organizations around the planet. Studies show that many chapters in that book are the most cited in the field of blended learning. All these books have wide implications and applications today during pandemic. In effect, as a futurist, Curt presciently envisions technological, pedagogical, sociological, and educational change on the horizon and provides resources (i.e., books, research, training, podcasts, videos, models, presentations, etc.) to help the world community as rapid-fire changes occur.

Curt Bonk has been a designated Visiting Scholar/Professor and Adjunct Professor at 11 different institutions including Taiwan (twice), Japan, Finland (twice), Wales, Scotland, Canada, China, Australia, and the USA. He has also been interviewed for articles and reports from the Wall Street Journal Online, The New York Times, China Daily, The Boston Globe, Education Week, US News and World Reports, Delta Sky Miles Magazine, AARP, The Seoul Economic Daily, The Central Intelligence Agency, the APA Monitor, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Sydney Morning Herald, and much more. He has appeared on NPR in various cities, WGN TV Chicago, STARLINK Dallas, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp, Radio Adelaide, the USA Radio Network, Tech Talk, New Zealand National Radio, Channel One TV New Zealand, and PBS TV for Cincinnati, Ohio. Contact him: cjbonk@indiana.edu and explore his homepage: http://curtbonk.com/.

Personal Homepage: http://curtbonk.com/

World Is Open book: http://worldisopen.com/ 

TravelinEdMan Blog: http://travelinedman.blogspot.com/ 

TravelinEdMan YouTube 27 videos for teaching online: http://www.youtube.com/user/TravelinEdMan

CourseShare, LLC: http://www.trainingshare.com/

Speaking testimonials: http://www.trainingshare.com/reviews.php

Bonk Speaking News: http://curtbonk.com/news.html 

Some sample STARLINK speaking videos: http://www.trainingshare.com/starlink4.html

Videostreamed talks: http://curtbonk.com/streamed.html