Curt Bonk: 12 Bio Options
Last Update: February 21, 2013
1. Curt Bonk Bio: 3 words (the “cut to the chase bio”)
He does stuff.
2. Curt Bonk Bio: 5 words (the “more explanatory bio”)
He does lots of stuff!
2a. Curt Bonk Bio: 5 words (the “alternative bio
with pics”)
Dr. Bonk is a slug.
3. 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."
4. Curt Bonk Bio: 27 word…the “140 character Twitter-like bio” (follow him at “TravelinEdMan” in Twitter and his blog)
Curt Bonk is a former CPA with a doctorate in ed psych from the U of Wisconsin. His interests are global ed, new tech, & extreme learning.
5. Curt Bonk Bio: 55 word (the “requisite compact bio”)
Curt Bonk is a former accountant and CPA who received his master's and Ph.D. degrees in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Bonk is now Professor of Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University and adjunct in the School of Informatics. Curt is President of CourseShare; see http://mypage.iu.edu/~cjbonk/). He can be contacted at cjbonk@indiana.edu.
6. Curt Bonk Bio: 97 words (the “standard under 100 word bio”)
Curt Bonk is Professor of Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University 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. A well-known authority on emerging technologies for learning, Bonk reflects on his speaking experiences around the world in his popular blog, TravelinEdMan. He has authored several widely used technology books, including The World is Open, Empowering Online Learning, The Handbook of Blended Learning, and Electronic Collaborators.
7. Curt Bonk Bio: 144 words (with links) (the “all purpose bio” and one Bonk recommends)
Curt Bonk is Professor of Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University 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. He 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. A well-known authority on emerging technologies for learning, Bonk reflects on his speaking experiences around the world in his popular blog, TravelinEdMan. He has authored several widely used technology books, including The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education (2009), Empowering Online Learning: 100+ Activities for Reading, Reflecting, Displaying, and Doing (2008), The Handbook of Blended Learning (2006), and Electronic Collaborators (1998).
8. Curt Bonk Bio: 232 words (with links) (the “hey this has everything in it bio”)
Curt Bonk is a former corporate controller and CPA, who, after becoming sufficiently bored with that, received his master’s and Ph.D. degrees in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin. Curt Bonk is now Professor of Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University 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. He 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. In early 2012 and 2013, Bonk was listed in Education Week among the top contributors to the public debate about education. That same week, he was selected as one of 24 presenters for a special NSF Cyberlearning Research Summit on “Transforming Education” held at National Geographic in Washington, DC. A well-known authority on emerging technologies for learning, Bonk reflects on his speaking experiences around the world in his popular blog, TravelinEdMan. He has authored several widely used technology books, including The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education (2009), Empowering Online Learning: 100+ Activities for Reading, Reflecting, Displaying, and Doing (2008), The Handbook of Blended Learning (2006), and Electronic Collaborators (1998). Curt founded SurveyShare in 2003 which he sold in 2010.
9. Curt Bonk Bio: 270 words (the Combo bio: newest...a good one to select)
After five uninspiring years as a corporate controller and CPA, Curt Bonk received his master’s and Ph.D. degrees in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin. He is now Professor of Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University (IU) and adjunct in the School of Informatics. Curt is also a founding member of the Center for Research on Learning and Technology (CRLT) at IU which opened in the late 1990s. 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. Curt 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. In early 2012 and again in 2013, Bonk was listed in Education Week among the top contributors to the public debate about education. That same week, he was selected as one of 24 presenters for a special NSF Cyberlearning Research Summit on “Transforming Education” held at National Geographic in Washington, DC. Curt has given more than 1,200 talks around the globe related to online teaching and learning. In addition, he has nearly 300 publications on topics such as online and blended learning, massive open online courses (MOOCs), massive multiplayer online gaming, wikibooks, blogging, open source software, collaborative technologies, and synchronous and asynchronous computer conferencing. Curt taught a MOOC in the spring of 2012 to nearly 4,000 people that was hosted by Blackboard in CourseSites. Curt Bonk 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), The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education (2009). Curt founded SurveyShare in 2003 which he sold in 2010 and has been President of CourseShare since 1999 (see http://www.courseshare.com/). See homepage: http://mypage.iu.edu/~cjbonk/; and email: cjbonk@indiana.edu.
10. Curt Bonk Bio: 402 words (the “numbers and dates bio”)
Curt Bonk is a former corporate controller and CPA, who, after becoming sufficiently bored with that, received his master’s and Ph.D. degrees in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin. After serving on the faculty of West Virginia University from 1989 to 1992, Curt arrived at Indiana University in 1992 where he was a Professor of Educational Psychology for 13 years before moving to an educational technology department. He is now Professor of Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University and adjunct in the School of Informatics. From 1999 to 2005, Dr. Bonk was a Senior Research Fellow with the Advanced Distributed Learning Lab within the Department of Defense as well as the Army Research Institute. He has received numerous teaching and mentoring awards from IU as well as the CyberStar Award from the Indiana Information Technology Association in 2002, the Most Outstanding Achievement Award from the U.S. Distance Learning Association in 2003, and the Most Innovative Teaching in a Distance Education Program Award from the State of Indiana in 2003. In 2004, Bonk received an alumni achievement award from the University of Wisconsin. In 2007, he was named Visiting Professor at the University of Glamorgan in Wales. In early 2012 and 2013, Bonk was listed in Education Week among the top contributors to the public debate about education. That same week, he was selected as one of 24 presenters for a special NSF Cyberlearning Research Summit on “Transforming Education” held at National Geographic in Washington, DC. Curt has presented more than 1,200 talks around the globe related to online teaching and learning, including ones at universities in China, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Korea, Finland, Ireland, Singapore, Spain, Iceland, the UK, and the Saudi Arabia. In addition, he has nearly 300 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. His popular “Handbook of Blended Learning Environments: Global Perspectives, Local Designs,” was published by Pfeiffer Publishing in 2006 and his “Empowering Online Learning: 100+ Activities for Reading, Reflecting, Displaying, and Doing was published by Jossey-Bass in 2008. His book July 2009 book with Jossey-Bass/Wiley, “The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education, extends “The World is Flat” book by Thomas Friedman. Curt founded SurveyShare in 2003 which he sold in 2010 and has been President of CourseShare since 1999 (see http://www.courseshare.com/). See homepage: http://mypage.iu.edu/~cjbonk/; and email: cjbonk@indiana.edu.
11. Curt Bonk Bio: 507 words (with links) (the “fun, tongue in cheek bio”)
Curt Bonk is a former corporate controller and CPA (basically, a life as a trained monkey), who, after becoming sufficiently bored with that and attending too many accounting functions with his tie around his head, received his master’s and Ph.D. degrees in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin. So an ed psycho he became from 1989 to roughly 5 years ago. Now this former accountant and former educational psychologist is an instructional technologist attempting to move into his fourth career as a professional writer and speaker. When they can locate him, Curt Bonk is Professor in some department involving technology at Indiana University. He founded CourseShare in the late 1990s so he can share free stuff with his friends (everyone likes free stuff) and place his family in near bankruptcy. Ditto SurveyShare which he founded in 2003 and sold in 2010 for roughly one-tenth of what he invested in it. He frequently wishes he had invested in real estate in Seoul, Singapore, San Diego, and Seattle instead. Drawing on the few days he has spent actually working as a corporate controller, CPA, educational psychologist, and instructional technologist, Bonk offers unique insights and myriad predictions not likely to come true related to the intersection of business, education, psychology, and technology. Various committees over the years have felt sorry for the lack of direction in his life and have given him 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. Using what criteria no one can be sure. As someone who has repeatedly fooled the world that he is an authority on emerging technologies for learning, Bonk reflects on all that he does not know as well as his keynote attempts around the world (i.e., which too often involve plane rides from hell) in his popular blog, TravelinEdMan. He has coauthored several technology books with people he has befriended in federal penitentiaries that each have sold more than 2 dozen copies (mostly to prison inmates who barter bars of dark chocolate with him), including The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education (2009—a whopping 152 copies sold, of which Curt has bought more than half to give away at his speaking engagements), Empowering Online Learning: 100+ Activities for Reading, Reflecting, Displaying, and Doing (2008—97.5 copies sold; not sure who got the half copy), The Handbook of Blended Learning (2006—38 copies sold—though Curt has met 40 people who claim to have bought it at Menards as a hip door stop), and Electronic Collaborators (1998—25 copies sold or roughly 2 copies per year; made the bestseller list for 3 short seconds on December 31, 1999 when people thought the world was likely to end and were really partying like it was 1999…10 of those copies were used as kindling for fires that day leaving only 15 copies that actually have had the potential to be read).
12. Curt Bonk Bio: 739 words (the “stupidly too long, why not write a book bio”)
Curt Bonk first entered the business world in his late teens as a production control coordinator in manufacturing plants in Milwaukee. By his early twenties, after obtaining an accounting degree from the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, Bonk was a CPA and corporate controller in the computer technology and medical supply industries. After becoming sufficiently bored with life as an accountant, he took correspondence and television courses with Dr. Robert Clasen at the University of Wisconsin (UW) Extension and Outreach Department. He received his Ph.D. degree in educational psychology from the UW in 1989. During graduate school, Dr. Clasen further opened Bonk’s learning world and passion for distance learning by offering him a job to help create television-based educational programming on critical thinking.
After graduating from the UW, Bonk served on the faculty of West Virginia University from 1989 to 1992. He arrived at Indiana University (IU) in August 1992 just as it was opening a fabulous building created to demonstrate new technologies in education. Bonk has been experimenting with emerging technologies in that building since that time, first as Professor of Educational Psychology and later in the field of educational technology. He is now Professor of Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University and also an adjunct professor in the IU School of Informatics, an affiliate member of the IU Cognitive Science Program, and Visiting Professor at the University of Glamorgan in Wales.
Bonk has been a Senior Research Fellow with both the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Lab within the Department of Defense as well as the Army Research Institute. He is the recipient of numerous teaching and mentoring awards from IU, including the Burton Gorman Teaching Award and the Wilbert Hites Mentoring award. In 2002, he was awarded the CyberStar Award from the Indiana Information Technology Association and in the following year was given the Most Outstanding Achievement Award from the U.S. Distance Learning Association, as well as the Most Innovative Teaching in a Distance Education Program Award from the State of Indiana. More recently, Bonk received an alumni achievement award from the University of Wisconsin. In November 2008, Bonk was program chair for the international E-learn 2008 Conference from the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). From 2008 to 2011, Curt helped AACE develop a new online conference related to technology and learning as well as a live conference in Asia and the Pacific Rim, “Global Learn: Global Conference on Learning and Technology.” In early 2012 and 2013, Bonk was listed in Education Week among the top contributors to the public debate about education. That same week, he was selected as one of 24 presenters for a special NSF Cyberlearning Research Summit on “Transforming Education” held at National Geographic in Washington, DC.
Bonk has presented more than 1,200 talks and workshops around the globe on emerging technologies, blended learning, online motivation, e-learning pedagogy, and future technology trends, to K-12, higher education, corporate, government, military, and other audiences. Organizations that have sought Curt for such consulting include Intel, Sun, Cisco, Microsoft, Samsung, LG, McGraw-Hill, Harvard, Oxford, Trinity College, ITT Educational Services, Manchester Business School, Dubai Women’s College, Maricopa Community Colleges, the University of Texas Medical School, the National Security Agency, and the eLearning Guild. Among the places he has presented are China, Thailand, the Philippines, Korea, Finland, Ireland, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, and Saudi Arabia. Bonk’s TravelinEdMan blog (see http://travelinedman.blogspot.com/) provides detailed accounts of what he has witnessed in these journeys, including how some organizations and institutions are leveraging the power of online networks and emerging technologies for e-learning to bolster their competitive advantage, improve people’s lives, and open up the world of learning for millions of people around the world.
Bonk has written nearly 300 articles and books on topics such as online learning, massive multiplayer online gaming, wikis, blogging, open source software, collaborative technologies, synchronous and asynchronous computer conferencing, and the future of online and blended learning. His books include, Electronic Collaborators (1998), The Handbook of Blended Learning Environments: Global Perspectives, Local Designs (2006), Empowering Online Learning: 100+ Activities for Reading, Reflecting, Displaying, and Doing (2008), The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education (2009). As a firm believer in open education, Bonk has also authored a free e-book extension of “The World is Open” book. Curt founded SurveyShare in 2003 which he sold in 2010 and has been President of CourseShare since 1999 (see http://www.courseshare.com/). See homepage: http://mypage.iu.edu/~cjbonk/; and email: cjbonk@indiana.edu.
Personal Homepage: http://mypage.iu.edu/~cjbonk/
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://mypage.iu.edu/~cjbonk/news.html
Some sample STARLINK speaking videos: http://www.trainingshare.com/starlink4.html
Videostreamed talks: http://mypage.iu.edu/~cjbonk/streamed.html