"Creative. Innovative. Generous. These words crop up repeatedly when Curtis Bonk’s students and colleagues describe his impact on their understanding of the educational process.

On a given day, Bonk’s students might partake of a number of pedagogical strategies. They might make poster presentations of time lines or taxonomies, for example. They might take quizzes that resemble Jeopardy or Bingo in format, or have fireside chats with guest experts. Scavenger hunts, portfolios, conference-style research presentations and scholarly journal creation are all part of the experience; students don’t merely research a topic and write a paper. They become a panel of authors contributing articles to "educational journals" that they have created."

Curtis Bonk is Professor of Educational Psychology as well as Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University (IU).

Dr. Bonk is also a Senior Research Fellow with the Advanced Distributed Learning Lab within the U.S Department of Defense and a founding member of the Center for Research on Learning and Technology at IU.

His focus is on topics such as online learning pedagogy, massive multiplayer online gaming, collaborative technologies, synchronous and asynchronous computer conferencing, and frameworks for Web-based instruction and evaluation.

Currently, he is working on the handbook of Blended Learning Environments: Global Perspectives, Local Designs,?to be published by Pfeiffer Publishing in early 2005.

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