From his page on the Indiana University website:
Curt Bonk is a former corporate controller and CPA from the Milwaukee area, who, after becoming sufficiently bored with that, received his master's and Ph.D. degrees in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin in 1987 and 1989, respectively. After serving on the faculty of West Virginia University from 1989 to 1992, Curt arrived at Indiana University (IU) in 1992 where he was a Professor of Educational Psychology for 13 years. In the summer of 2005 he moved to the Department of Instructional Systems Technology at IU. Curt is also adjunct in the IU School of Informatics since 2002 and affiliated with the IU Cognitive Science Program since 1992. Dr. Bonk was recently a Senior Research Fellow with the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Lab within the Department of Defense (2003-2005) and before that with the Army Research Institute (1999-2003). 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 and gave the keynote address at the ceremony. In 2007, he was named Visiting Professor at the University of Glamorgan in Wales. Curt has presented over 800 talks around the globe--mainly related to online teaching and learning--including ones at universities in China, Taiwan, Thailand, Korea, Finland, Ireland, Singapore, Australia, Iceland, the UK, and the Saudi Arabia. In addition, he has more than 200 publications on topics such as online learning pedagogy, massive multiplayer online gaming, Wikibooks, blogging, open source software, learning in a social context, collaborative technologies, teacher professional development with technology, synchronous and asynchronous computer conferencing, and the future of online and blended learning. This research has taken place in higher education as well as K-12, military, and corporate training environments. 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. He is now completing a book, "The World is Open: Now, WE-ALL-LEARN with Web Technology", to extend "The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman. And his 1998 book, "Electronic Collaborators" was cited as a Breakthrough Book in Lingua Franca. Finally, he is President of CourseShare and SurveyShare and can be contacted at cjbonk@indiana.edu or via his homepage at http://mypage.iu.edu/~cjbonk/.
