Dr. Curtis
Bonk
Indiana University The Perfect E-Storm: Emerging Technology, Enhancing
Pedagogy and Enormous Learner Demands
Tuesday, May 25th
8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Brookens Auditorium
Emerging technologies - such as electronic portfolios, computer
games and simulations, digital books, wireless and mobile
computing - are generating waves of new opportunities in K-12
and higher education. As enrollments in online courses surge,
today's students - immersed in an increasingly digital world
- are seeking richer and more engaging learning experiences.
Amid the rising tide of expectations, instructors are exploring
innovative ways to use technology to foster interaction,
collaboration, and excitement for learning.
While we may not realize it, we have entered the perfect
electronic storm, where technology, the art of teaching,
and the needs of learners are converging. Before venturing
farther into these uncharted waters, we need to think carefully
about the speed and direction in which we are headed.
Bio -
Dr. Curtis J. Bonk is a former CPA and
corporate controller who received his master?s and Ph.D.
degrees in educational
psychology from the University of Wisconsin. From 1989 to
1992, Dr. Bonk served on the faculty of West Virginia University.
He is now an associate professor in the Departments of Counseling
and Educational Psychology as well as Instructional Systems
Technology at Indiana University. He is also a core member
of the Center for Research on Learning and Technology at
IU and a Senior Consortium Research Fellow with the Army
Research Institute. Dr. Bonk received the Burton Gorman teaching
award in 1999, the Wilbert Hites Mentoring Award in 2000
(first recipient), and the CyberStar award from the Indiana
Information Technology Association in 2002. During the past
few years, he has been a visiting scholar at universities
in Finland, Canada, and Australia. Curt has developed unique
international conferencing exchanges and mentoring programs,
including the "Teacher Institute for Curriculum Knowledge
about the Integration of Technology" (TICKIT) (http://www.indiana.edu/~tickit).
His 1998 "Electronic Collaborators" book with Erlbaum
was cited as a ?Breakthrough Book? in Lingua Franca. Dr.
Bonk has presented his ideas at hundreds of state, national,
and international conferences and seminars and is in demand
as a conference keynote speaker. He is President of CourseShare.com,
which he founded in 1999. He can be reached via e-mail at
cjbonk@indiana.edu and his homepage is http://php.indiana.edu/~cjbonk.
Ray
Schroeder, Professor Emeritus
University of Illinois
E-Learning and Higher Education
Tuesday, May 25th
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Brookens Auditorium
Bio -
Ray Schroeder received the 2002 Sloan Consortium award for "Most
Outstanding Achievement in ALN by an Individual" and
he has published and presented extensively on the use of
Web logs in higher education.
Ray is the Director of the Office of Technology Enhanced
Learning at the University of Illinois at Springfield. He
is also a Professor of Communication and VPAA Faculty Fellow.
He
teaches
online
introductory and
communication
courses. He began his teaching career at UIUC in 1971 and
joined the faculty at SSU (now UIS) in 1977. Ray was recently
named an Alfred P. Sloan Consortium "Distinguished Scholar
in Online Learning" 2001-2003. Many of Ray's presentations
and publications are listed among the outreach efforts of the
unit he directs, the Office of Technology-Enhanced Learning
http://otel.uis.edu/outreach.htm.
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