Curt Bonk

Curt Bonk received his master's and Ph.D. degrees in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin. He is Professor of Instructional Systems Technology in the School of Education at Indiana University and adjunct in the School of Informatics.

He has received the CyberStar Award from the Indiana Information Technology Association, the Most Outstanding Achievement Award from the U.S. Distance Learning Association, and the Most Innovative Teaching in a Distance Education Program Award from the State of Indiana.

Curt has given more than 800 talks around the globe related to online teaching and learning. In addition, he has given over 200 publications on topics such as online learning pedagogy, massive multiplayer online gaming, wikibooks, blogging, open source software, collaborative technologies, and synchronous and asynchronous computer conferencing.

He is author of the Handbook of Blended Learning: Global Perspectives, Local Designs (2006) as well as Empowering Online Learning: 100+ Activities for Reading, Reflecting, Displaying, and Doing (2008). Curt is President of CourseShare and SurveyShare (see http://mypage.iu.edu/~cjbonk/; email: cjbonk@indiana.edu).

His most recent book is The World is Open: Why Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education, published by Josey-Bass.