• Higher Ed Keynotes
  
  
• K-12 Keynotes
  
  
• Corporate Keynotes
  
  
• Talks in Development or Planned for the Future

1. 100+ Hyper-Engaging Instructional Ideas: Critical, Creative, Cooperative (*)
2. 100+ Hyper-Engaging Lecture Ideas For Any Class Size: Low-Risk, Low-Cost, Low Time (*)
3. 200+ Innovative, Interactive, and Easy to Implement Instructional Ideas for Face-to-Face, Blended, and Fully Online Courses
4. A Web of Learning: Highlighting Learning Opportunities for Today and Tomorrow
5. Activate the Learning Process with 100+ Hyper-Engaging Online Ideas and Best Practices
6. Active Learning with Technology: Myths, Magic, or Just a lot of Bonk
7. Active Learning with Technology: Myths, Magic, and Mucho Motivation (*)
8. Adding Some TEC-VARIETY to Online Courses: Ten Principles for Jumbo Motivation
9. Addressing Diverse Online Learner Needs with the Read, Reflect, Display, and Do (R2D2) Model
10. Addressing Diverse Online Learner Needs and Motivation with the Read, Reflect, Display, and Do (R2D2) and TEC-VARIETY Models (*)
11. Anchors and Enders: The Use of YouTube and Shared Online Video in Instruction
12. Assessment and Evaluation: Matching Feedback and Assessment to Online Activities
13. Avoiding Natural Disasters and Outbreaks with Blended Learning
14. Best of the Best of Online Pedagogical Practices
15. Best of the Best of Online Teaching and Learning: Sampling across a Scrumptious Smorgasbord
16. Best Practices for Online Learning: Introducing the R2D2 and TEC-VARIETY Models
17. Blended Learning A to Z: Myths, Models, and Moments of Magic (*)
18. Blended Learning: Situations, Solutions, and Several Surprises
19. Creating Engaging, Collaborative, and More Active Classes: Low-Risk, Low-Cost, Low Time
20. Designing Interactive Learning for Visually-Hungry Learners
21. Digital Scholarship: Success and Productivity in the Age of Web 2.0 (*)
22. E-Learning Curriculum Design and Delivery: Best Practices
23. E-Learning: It's about Nature (technology) AND Nurture (pedagogy) (*)
24. From R2D2 to the Matrix: A Galaxy of Online Learning Style, Motivational, Blended Learning, and Learner-Centered Examples (*)
25. Just a Lot of Bonk: 15 Years of Online Learning Research, Results, and Reflections
26. Matching Online Assessments to Online Pedagogies: Choices, Challenges, and Concerns
27. Podcasts and Wikis and Blogs, Oh My!: Online Learning is Not in Kansas Anymore
28. The E-Perfect Storm: Emerging Technology, Enormous Learner Demands, Enhanced Pedagogy and Erased Budgets (*)
29. The Flat World has Swung Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education (*)
30. The Rise of Shared Online Video, the Fall of Traditional Learning
31. "The World Is Open" Book
32. The World is Open: Introducing the Heroes, Gurus, and Revolutionaries of the Shared Internet (*)
33. The World is Open: Now, WE-ALL-LEARN with Web Technology! (*)
34. Time Not Wasted: Digital Scholarship in the Web 2.0 (*)
35. Time Not Wasted: Stories from Researching and Publishing Classroom Technology Integration Efforts
36. Workshop on Shared Online Video: The Rise of Shared Online Video, the Fall of Traditional Learning

Abstract: You may have attended sessions on creativity and innovation as a means to break your students out of traditional ways of thinking. Or perhaps your discipline emphasizes critical thinking skills and activities. Still other areas will recognize the importance of teamwork skills in real world and embed group activities in their classes. No matter the area of concern, motivation of students is important. This presentation will feature ideas from each of these teaching and learning areas. More than 100 instructional approaches for critical and creative thinking, cooperative and collaborative learning, and motivation will be provided. In response to those who might be hesitant or with minimal flexibility in their schedules, dozens of these ideas will be low risk, low cost, and low time. The majority of these ideas will be implementable in face-to-face as well as online and blended classes.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Are you bored with your teaching? Are your students? Are students dropping out like flies or wishing they could? Do you feel that new approaches simply take too much time or are too risky? Do you teach large section college classes with little space to move about? Do you not have much money in your department or program to make changes? In this talk, Dr. Bonk provides more than 100 ways to liven up your lectures and get your students involved and engaged in learning. There will be dozens of methods that you can use to motivate and engage your students in their learning. Some of the strategies will be very teacher-centered, while others will give students more ownership and control of the curriculum. These strategies will relate to creativity, critical thinking, cooperative and collaborative learning, and motivation. Importantly, each strategy will be laid out in a step-by-step approach. In addition, Dr. Bonk will label each one in terms of the degree of risk, time, and cost and he will offer his advice for getting started with these tools and techniques. Attend this talk and become hyper-engaged yourself!

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: So you want everything? Well this talk gives you everything and more. Instructional strategies for critical thinking, creative thinking, motivation, cooperative and collaborative learning, and technology integration will be detailed, many of which will be low risk, low, and low cost. Will 50 innovative ideas do? Not! How about 100? No, that is a different talk. 150? Try again. Ah, 200, you say. Why certainly. You say that you're greedy and want options to many of these as well? Sure, no problem. Frameworks and models for it all? Of course. So you have many conventional face-to-face classes but are also using hybrid or blended models and dabbling in fully online courses and programs, some of which include synchronous components or videoconferencing? That's too easy. This talk covers instructional strategies for any environment and any delivery system. What about length...any options there? This talk is possible in one hour, two hours, three, or four or more. You pick. In it, Curt Bonk will discuss his famed R2D2 (Read, Reflect, Display, and Do) model for addressing diverse learners and learning styles or preferences as well as his popular online learning and retention model called TEC-VARIETY (e.g., tone, encouragement, curiosity, variety, autonomy, relevance, interactivity, engagement, tension, and yielding products, etc.).. WE-ALL-LEARN and Bonk will show you how this is so with more than 200 interactive instructional strategies for any teaching environment or setting.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

The Web is no longer just "the Web." As we push into the twenty-first century, it has truly become a Web of Learning. The Web of Learning offers thousands of new ways to foster student learning. The opportunities in this Web of Learning are so vast, that they are overwhelming and confusing. In this talk, Curt Bonk will provide frameworks for better understanding the possibilities for addressing diverse learner needs online. Using his new R2D2 learning style framework for instructional design (Read, Reflect, Display, and Do), he will also present engaging strategies that relate to different student learning strategies or preferences. He will also discuss how the R2D2 method can be expanded or altered to fit your particular needs (perhaps to his latest method called the MATRIX).

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Are you bored with your online teaching or technology integration ideas? Are your students? Are online students dropping out like flies or wishing they could? Do you feel that new approaches simply take too much time or are too risky? In part 1 of this talk, Dr. Bonk provides more than 100 ways to liven up your online classes and get your students involved and engaged in learning. These strategies will relate to creativity, critical thinking, cooperative and collaborative learning, and motivation. Importantly, each strategy will be laid out in a step-by-step approach. In part 2, he will provide an overview of the best practices in online learning pedagogy (from Ron Oliver, Zane Berge, Betty Collis, Linda Harasim, Robin Mason, Gilly Salmon, Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt, etc.), including the use of the famous Bonk Bingo Board--of course, with the associated prizes. During the session, the similarities and differences of their ideas will be compared and contrasted. Bonk will also showcase his own frameworks for thinking about online teaching and learning. Topics covered include encouraging student participation, handling online discussion, creating communities, online classroom management, security issues, online testing, plagiarism, etc.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Myths and debates abound about the benefits of technology integration in higher education. The battles are even more heated related to trends in online learning. Based on extensive research, Curt Bonk will dispel myths related to the sophistication of instructional technologies, the difficulty of teaching with technology, time constraints, common obstacles, possible supports, and overall impact. Effective integration of technology may appear magical, but it is more likely based on solid strategic planning, a range of administrative supports, the facilitation of instructor experimentation, and extensive communication and sharing. While detailing various support structures, Dr. Bonk will highlight instructional technologies and pedagogical strategies currently emerging to meet diverse student needs. He will also provide dozens of active learning ideas and solutions that motivate students and creatively engage them in deeper learning experiences.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Myths and debates abound about the benefits of technology integration in higher education; especially with the explosion of online course enrollments. Based on extensive research, Curtis Bonk will dispel the myths and reveal a few technology magic tricks to help instructors and course designers focus on effective teaching and learning with technology. Dr. Bonk will highlight instructional technologies and pedagogical strategies currently emerging to meet diverse student needs. Within several contexts such as face-to-face classrooms, e-learning and blended learning, he will illustrate effective applications of technology to address different student learning styles and motivation. He will also provide dozens of active learning ideas and solutions that motivate students and creatively engage them in deeper learning experiences. Instead of relying on magic, these techniques will be based on ten motivational principles related to tone or climate, feedback, engagement, meaningfulness, choice, variety, curiosity, tension, interactivity and collaboration, and goal setting.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Everyone is talking about the need to motivate and engage students. This is true in face-to-face classrooms and is even more true in online environments. Many students are unhappy due to bland online content and unimaginative activities. It is too lock-step and mechanized. There is no room for flexibility, choice, and creativity. Many others are bored since the course does not utilize current technologies. They love their iPods, iPhones, and other wireless and mobile technologies and want their instructors to utilize them. Some feel that the instructors have not addressed their preferred learning approaches. They want hands-on activities where they produce something meaningful as well as time to explore the resources they find the Web. All these people tend to simply want more variety, or more specifically, they want 'TEC-VARIETY'. Bonk’s new instructional design model for online learning -- TEC-VARIETY -- will break online instructors and students out of boring online learning. To simplify Web-based learning possibilities, each letter of the TEC-VARIETY model stands for a well known motivational principle, including:
(1) Tone or climate,
(2) Encouragement or feedback,
(3) Curiosity,
(4) Variety,
(5) Autonomy or choice,
(6) Relevance and meaningfulness,
(7) Interactivity and collaboration,
(8) Engagement,
(9) Tension, and
(10) Yielding products and goal setting.

During this talk, Dr. Bonk will outline dozens of active learning ideas and solutions that motivate students and creatively engage them in deeper learning experiences. It is time to break out of boring online approaches with a bit of TEC-VARIETY!!!

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Many students drop out of courses or do not participate since they do not address their learning preferences. Others complain of the highly mechanized online instructional approaches that bore, or, worse still, insult them. Simply put, there is a dire need to creatively engage online students in deeper and more varied approaches to online learning. A new model from Curt Bonk called the Read, Reflect, Display, and Do (R2D2) model can address different student learning strategies or preferences. Bonk will discuss how the R2D2 framework can be expanded or altered to fit your particular needs. Using his recent Empowering Online Learning book as a base for discussion, Bonk has more than 100 online activities and examples for using the R2D2 model.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Motivation is a key issue in online learning. Another concern relates to developing interactive and collaborative activities and environments. Many online students drop out of courses or do not participate since they do not address their learning preferences. Others complain of the highly mechanized online instructional approaches that bore, or, worse still, insult them. Simply put, there is a dire need to creatively engage online students in deeper and more varied approaches to online learning. A new model called Read, Reflect, Display, and Do (R2D2) is detailed in Curt Bonk’s 2008 book, "Empowering Online Learning: 100 Activities for Reading, Reflecting, Displaying, and Doing." This model or framework for online learning can address different student learning strategies or preferences. Bonk will discuss how the R2D2 method can be expanded or altered to fit your particular needs. He will also highlight his most recent instructional design method for online motivation and retention called TEC-VARIETY. Each letter of the TEC-VARIETY model stands for a well known motivational principle (e.g., tone, encouragement, curiosity, variety, etc.). Bonk has hundreds of activities examples and of how to use either of these models.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: There is an explosion of shared online video resources. YouTube. Seems all people want to see or share today is video on YouTube. Add to that, TeacherTube, Hula, Yahoo! Video, MSN, CNN videos, Google Video, BBC Online News, CurrentTV, and so on. With this, there is a shift from strict reliance on text resources across learning environments to highly visual ones. Unfortunately, there is a severe lack of knowledge on how to use these resources in teaching and learning. In this talk, Curt Bonk will outline dozens of ways to use shared online video from both a teacher as well as a student perspective. As he will show, short online videos can serve to anchor instruction as well as end it. They help students make sense of the content. Equally important, they can be used in face-to-face courses as well as online and blended ones. As these resources proliferate and technology storage costs continue to plummet, it is likely that the use of video as a teaching tool will multiply in the coming decade. As Bonk will make clear, student learning can become more personalized and empowered with timely and thoughtful integration of video in instruction. It is time to learn how you can take advantage of it!

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: There are myriad questions related to online assessment and evaluation. In this talk, Bonk will document the importance of matching online goals and objectives to actual assessment practices. He will provide examples and data from research that he and his colleagues have conducted on online assessment practices in higher education settings. Next, he will lay out dozens of online assessments he uses for different online activities in accordance with both his R2D2 and TEC-VARIETY models. These models relate to online student learning styles and motivation. In the third part, Bonk will describe dozens of tips for saving time in online assessment as well as many ways to detect and reduce online plagiarism. Finally, if interested and time allows, he will describe online evaluation techniques and options.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Learn how to plan for the unexpected with e-learning tools

Abstract: Gulf Coast Hurricanes, earthquakes, winter blizzards, West Coast fires, tsunamis, H1N1 virus, and SARs are just some of the unpredictable events that have disrupted learning around the nation. No one knows when a natural disaster or a disease outbreak will happen. The only thing we can do is to prepare for the worst and help our students learn with the best options we can find. In education, every hour of face time we have with students is precious. If we lose a week of instructional time out of a semester or course, our students lose out, too. Each course has content expectations. In professional schools, this typically means that there are tests that your students must pass.

The solution to this problem is called Blended Learning, an approach to education that combines the best of the face-to-face classroom instruction with the best of the Web. In this seminar, Avoiding Natural Disasters and Outbreaks with Blended Learning, learning technologies expert, Curt Bonk, will explain how you can create a plan for the unexpected and serve your students better. In this talk, he will lay out powerful and motivational blended learning solutions from which to choose.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Can define as well as use blended learning in many contexts and courses.
2. Grasps the advantages as well as the disadvantages of blended learning.
3. Knows how to use different blended learning approaches or models.
4. Understands how to link supplemental Web tools, activities, and resources to enhance and extend a course or unit beyond traditional boundaries.
5. More readily incorporates learning technologies and resources--low risk, low cost, low time ones as well as more risky and time consuming approaches.
6. Walks away with several blended learning options for typical problems and situations that arise (e.g., addressing diverse learners, creating communities, fostering collaboration, providing feedback, etc.).

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: After a decade of significant online instruction, it is imperative to reflect for a moment and forecast where this field is headed. This session will include an interactive and fun overview of current best practices in online learning pedagogy (from Ron Oliver, Zane Berge, Betty Collis, Linda Harasim, Robin Mason, Gilly Salmon, Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt, etc.), including the use of the famous Bonk Bingo Board--of course, with the associated prizes. During the session, the similarities and differences of their ideas will be compared and contrasted. Bonk will also showcase his own frameworks for thinking about online teaching and learning. Topics covered include encouraging student participation, handling online discussion, creating communities, online classroom management, security issues, online testing, plagiarism, etc. Many questions will be answered, including do deadlines help? What about instructor modeling and guidelines? How often should an instructor participate in online instruction? In effect, this session will help in rethinking the role of the instructor, learner, and institution in online environments. It will end with a reflection on where we should go next - perhaps toward a community of innovative online instructors who seamlessly share their best online teaching ideas and practices. What are the best of your best practices?

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Are you a sampler? Do you like a good buffet? Are you a multi-tasker? If you are, in this series of mini-sessions (or extended workshop), Bonk presents 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 of his most popular talks and topics. It is a best of the best talk. Each part of 20 minutes long followed by hands-on activities or question and answer or both. Want to hear about Bonk’s popular Read, Reflect, Display, and Do (R2D2) technique for addressing online learning styles and the diverse learners of this world? Sure, no problem, that is Part I. Do you perhaps need to address online motivation and retention with his famed TEC-VARIETY model? Yes, this is included as well in Part II. Is there any mention of blended learning models and examples? Yes, of course in Part III. Well, then what about including general ideas for active and collaborative learning, critical and creative thinking and so on? He does that in Part IV. Any summary of what the leading authorities recommend about online teaching and learning, building communities, handling online discussion, providing student feedback, and so on? Well, that be in Part V. This is really the best of the best. Check out this scrumptious smorgasbord of online delights!

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year and endless ways in which they can be used for teaching and learning. So many technologies and pedagogical uses, in fact, that most instructors of higher education are overwhelmed. One solution for this problem is to locate and share best practices. As part of this "best practices" movement, Curt Bonk offers two simple yet powerful frameworks that can be used to understand hundreds of Web-based pedagogical ideas that can motivate students to high success in online learning environments. Bonk will provide these best practices in online teaching based on two decades of his research. Such ideas can creatively engage students into deeper and better learning. He will reveal dozens of practical examples using his widely acclaimed R2D2 (Read, Reflect, Display, and Do) framework for instructional design with technology. Not done, he will showcase his TEC-VARIETY model for student motivation with Web technology. Each letter of the TEC-VARIETY model stands for a well known motivational principle (e.g., tone, encouragement, curiosity, variety, autonomy, relevance, interactivity, engagement, tension, and yielding products.). While detailing best practices he has seen around the globe, Bonk will also discuss how his two methods can be expanded or altered to fit one’s particular preferences and needs. No matter what galaxy or planet you are on, these ideas and techniques can be linked student motivation, collaboration, interaction, and general engagement in the learning process. Those attending this session will walk away with many practical strategies that can be incorporated directly into face-to-face, blended, and virtual classes, events, or programs.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Instead of debating the costs and benefits of online learning, many educators are now exploring ways to blend e-learning technologies and environments. There is both extensive confusion and much optimism about blended learning due to multiple blended learning definitions and approaches. There are also many myths about blended learning. Some might blend in order to address different learning styles. Others might blend to take advantage of face-to-face and virtual learning opportunities. Still others might blend to combine synchronous and asynchronous technologies to best meet student needs. To addresses these issues, in this talk, Dr. Bonk will lay out several different models and definitions of blended learning. The session will expose the advantages as well as the disadvantages of blended learning as related to the different models. Perhaps, most importantly, the session will include more than a dozen different situations or problems and many potential blended learning solutions in various disciplines and educational arenas. Some of these blended activities might even result in moments of online magic. Many of the ideas and examples in this talk will come from Dr. Bonks Handbook of Blended learning: Global Perspectives, Local Designs.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Login and provide the password 'blended' (without the quotes) to see streamed video of this presentation at the McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Regional Event Series

Abstract: There is both extensive confusion and much optimism about blended learning due to multiple blended learning definitions and approaches. Some might blend to take advantage of face-to-face and virtual learning opportunities. Others might blend to combine synchronous and asynchronous technologies to best meet student needs. To addresses these issues, Dr. Bonk will lay out several different models and definitions of blended learning as well as the advantages and disadvantages of blended learning. Importantly, the session will include a dozen different situations or problems and a plethora of potential blended learning solutions in many different disciplines and levels of institutions. Many of the examples will come from Dr. Bonks recent Handbook of Blended learning: Global Perspectives, Local Designs. Dr. Bonk will also tap into recent data he has collected on the present and future state of blended learning around the planet. Some of this data will surprise you! During this session, participants will reflect on their own blended learning models.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Are you bored with your teaching? Are your students? Are students not engaged in their learning? Do you feel that new approaches simply take too much time or are too risky? Are you interested in collaborative learning? In this talk, Dr. Bonk provides more than 100 ways to liven up your lectures and get your students involved and engaged in learning. The emphasis will be on collaborative learning and student engagement in that learning. There will be dozens of collaborative learning methods that you can use to motivate and engage your students in their learning. Some of the strategies will be very teacher-centered, while others will give students more ownership and control of the curriculum. These strategies will relate to creativity, critical thinking, cooperative and collaborative learning, and motivation. Importantly, each strategy will be laid out in a step-by-step approach. In addition, Dr. Bonk label each one in terms of the degree of risk, time, and cost and he will offer his advice for getting started with these tools and techniques.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Like it or not, fast networks, digital video, and net generation learners are raising the stakes for visually stimulating, interactive online learning environments. With the explosion of new audio and video e-learning technologies, students are demanding more, universities are providing more, and instructors and tutors are being asked to do more. But what are the actual benefits? What does cognitive research show about learning from multimedia? Is learning enhanced or reduced with the addition of visual, audio and animated elements? How can we build visually rich interactive learning in a cost effective way? This session will lay out a multitude of options for interactive multimedia learning. Participants will find new ways to add visually-rich learning experiences to your courses to engage and edify the next generation of "digital natives."

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Many are unclear on how the use of emerging technologies impact on research and scholarship. In particular, there is much confusion about the Web 2.0 and the new forms of digital scholarship. In this talk, Bonk will briefly clarify what the Web 2.0 means and why it is important. Next, he will document dozens of ways in which scholarship is different in the Web 2.0. We are in a transition to new ways to teach, learn, and be a scholar. Many now perceive a key aspect of scholarship to be interactive and democratic participation throughout the publishing process. Among the nontraditional options confronting us are blogging, e-books and wikibooks, online conferences, author podcasts and pubcasts, professor celebrity videos in YouTube, personally-built knowledge portals, and open access journals articles and documents. In addition, anyone can now publish their books and text documents using Lulu, BookSurge, Scripd, or personal Web servers. Colleges and universities, in fact, are encouraging their faculty members to post their publications online. And if you have video you want to share online, there is TeacherTube, YouTube, and CurrentTV, among many other choices. With the explosion of the Web 2.0, many institutions, in fact, have designated channels for their lectures in iTunes and YouTube. Questions remain, however, as to which of these publishing and presenting avenues will lead to tenure, respect, and a high quality reputation. In this talk, Bonk will provide many such digital scholarship examples and offer his opinion on where this is all headed.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: In this talk, Curt Bonk will detail traditional methods of instructional design. Then he will compare them to the instructional design approaches needed for online learning in the twenty-first century. Emphasis will be placed on collaboration, interactivity, problem-based learning, and motivation. Links will be made to relevant research in learning psychology on dual coding theory and learning from multiple forms of media.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Emerging technologies - such as electronic portfolios, blogs, wikis, podcasts, ebooks, digital object repositories, computer games and simulations, and wireless and mobile computing - are generating waves of new opportunities in higher education, K-12 schools, corporate training, and other learning environments. Higher education instructors are always pressed for time and yet they encounter new technologies that they might incorporate into their teaching on a daily basis. Educational technologies, as genes are to human beings, instill a wondrous nature of possibilities for learning. However, this is an interactional model and nurture is equally important. In fact, the effective use of these educational technologies involves far more than simply shoveling tutorials, readings, and slideshows onto a web site or deciding to use a new technology in one's teaching. Instructors must be trained how to motivate online students as well as how to address their individual learning styles and adjust learning methods and assessment to the learner-centered expectations of Generation X and millennial students. 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. The current debates about e-learning will not be won by technology advocates, promoters, and zealots, nor by those who are more hesitant, resistant, and reluctant to incorporate technologies into their teaching. One may get excited about nature (technology), while for the other it is all about nurture (pedagogy). But, as this talk will show, it is both that matter. Neither nature nor nurture can be ignored.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Retention is a key issue in online learning. Another is developing interactive and collaborative activities and environments. Creating a motivational and interactive online environment can enhance student retention, completion, and overall enthusiasm for this new type of learning arena. Part of the solution that institutions of higher learning are adopting relates to blended learning and part relates to becoming more learner-centered. As part of this movement, in this talk, Curt Bonk will provide dozens of pedagogical ideas and solutions that motivate students in the online learning environments. Bonk will provide best practices in online teaching, based on two decades of his own research as well as many others, that creatively engage students into deeper and better learning. Using his new R2D2 learning style framework for online instructional design as well as his TEC-VARIETY model for online student motivation, he will also present engaging strategies that relate to different student learning strategies or preferences. He will also discuss how the R2D2 method can be expanded or altered to fit your particular needs. He will also highlight his most recent instructional design method called the MATRIX. No matter what galaxy or planet you are on, these ideas and techniques can be linked student motivation, collaboration, interaction, and general engagement in the learning process. Bonk will offer many such linkages. More importantly, specific steps will be provided for each technique described in this entertaining and informative talk. As a result, this session will include many practical strategies that can be incorporated directly into one's virtual classes, events, or programs.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: After a decade of accelerating growth of online learning and associated research, it is imperative to reflect for a moment on the research results and forecast where this field is headed. In this talk, Curt Bonk will summarize more than a decade of his research in the e-learning field with an emphasis on asynchronous and synchronous online conferencing, virtual teaming, and online mentoring and cross cultural collaboration. In addition, he will include his e-learning research on blended learning, scaffolded learning, interactivity, student perceptions, instructor roles, case-based learning, and critical thinking. He will then offer suggestions on the salient gaps in the research and next steps to address them.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Special colloquium session at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis:
  Stream in RealPlayer

Abstract: Online teaching can be quite hectic and, at times, extremely frustrating. The frustration mounts when the time required for student grading and feedback seems never ending. Adding to the pressures, those new to online teaching face many challenges not faced in face-to-face settings. Assessment seems the last thing on one's mind when scrambling to design and then deliver a new online course. Part of the dilemma is determining how to fairly and expediently assess student learning when attempting innovative and risky pedagogical techniques. This presentation will offer dozen of pedagogical techniques and discuss online assessment options that one might select for each of them. A series of tips and guidelines will be offered for saving time in online assessment while providing timely and valued feedback.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: It is time to be honest about online learning - the continued emergence of online technologies has pushed us into strange lands not previously visited. Unfortunately, we have not all landed in the emerald city. It is not just about the pedagogy, nor is it about the technology. What matters is the thoughtful integration of both. One need not be a scarecrow, however. This fun packed session will travel to Oz for a look at how online learning can be made intellectually and pedagogically rich, highly collaborative, and engaging. It will link emerging technologies such as podcasts and wikis and blogs to dozens of pedagogical uses. After participants click their heels three times, the session will provide many motivational, collaborative, and interactive uses of these technologies. It will also provide ways to address the learning preferences or styles of diverse learners, including millennial and Generation X and Y learners as well as that of the munchkins. Bonk will try to show participants the yellow brick road to follow in negotiating all the emerging technologies and pedagogies. Then, if the Wicked Witches of the East or the West do not interfere, he will turn these ideas into visions of where we should go next - toward a community of innovative online instructors who seamlessly share their best online teaching ideas and practices.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Emerging technologies - such as virtual worlds, blogs, wikis, podcasts, e-books, digital object repositories, computer games and simulations, shared online video, and wireless and mobile computing - are generating waves of new opportunities in higher education, K-12 schools, corporate training, and other learning environments. However, the effective use of these educational technologies involves far more than simply shoveling tutorials, readings, and slideshows onto a web site or deciding to use a new technology in one's teaching. Instructors must be trained how to motivate online students as well as how to address their individual learning styles and adjust learning methods and assessment to the learner-centered expectations of Generation X and millennial students. 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 electrical storm, where technology, the art of teaching, and the needs of learners are converging. Now add to that stagnant or erased budgets--the fourth part of the perfect e-storm--that stand directly in the way of expensive technology purchases and risky program initiatives surrounding the other three storms. Given these monetary constraints, a new model from Curt Bonk called the Read, Reflect, Display, and Do (R2D2) model can address different student learning strategies or preferences while not costing much money to implement. To help those venturing farther into these uncharted waters, he will also highlight his most recent instructional design method for online motivation and retention called TEC-VARIETY. Each letter of the TEC-VARIETY model stands for a well known motivational principle (e.g., tone, encouragement, curiosity, variety, etc.).

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience. Read article and view this presentation from The University of Calgary Learning Commons

Abstract: Building on Thomas Friedman's book, The World is Flat, Curt Bonk offers an intriguing look at ten technology trends which he called educational openers. When combined, the first letter of each opener spells the acronym: "WE-ALL-LEARN." This model helps make sense of the role of various technologies in open education, including open courseware, open source software, open access journals, open educational resources, and open information communities. As part of this, he will discuss e-books, podcasts, streamed videos, online learning portals social networking tools like Facebook and Ning, YouTube videos, wikis, and virtual worlds. With such technologies, thousands of organizations and scholars are sharing their course materials, expertise, and teaching ideas globally, thereby expanding learning opportunities and resources even further. As this occurs, members of the media, politicians, educators, students, parents, and others are asking important questions about the quality of such contents. Bonk also addresses questions related to the digital divide and how those without Internet access still benefit immensely from these open learning tools and resources. The economic world of Friedman may be flatter, but the educational world is definitely more open than is was a decade or even a few years ago. Open up and enjoy it!

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Hundreds of technologies exist for improving teaching and learning. There is one technology today that offers unique and free ways to change education and training across all sectors; namely, shared online video. There are video explanations, demonstrations, documentaries, lectures, and news stories. They come from places like NASA TV, Link TV, YouTube edu, CNN, the BBC, Google, TeacherTube, Academic Earth, Fora TV, etc. All of these exist for free. It is time to create innovative courses, programs, and degrees which utilize them. As this happens, traditional education will be challenged. Dr. Bonk will discuss several controversial scenarios that might result. He will also offer 10 ways to use shared online video from an instructor-centered point of view as well as 10 ideas from a student-centered perspective. In addition, he will discuss what shared online video means to others (e.g., administrators, bloggers, podcasters, librarians, informal learners, corporate trainers, etc.). In longer versions of this talk, he will also highlight his research on the motivational and instructional design aspects of popular videos in YouTube. He will explain why people watch, share, or create such online videos. In the end, the audience will brainstorm ways in which shared online video can transform their own teaching and learning settings.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Web-based technology has opened up education around the world to the point where anyone can learn anything from anyone else at any time. To help educators understand what's possible, Curt Bonk employs his groundbreaking "WE-ALL-LEARN" model to outline ten key technology and learning trends, demonstrating how technology has transformed educational opportunities for learners of every age in every corner of the globe. The book and its free companion Web site are filled with the stories about ordinary learners as well as technology and education leaders that reveal the power of this new way of learning.

1. Web Searching in the World of e-Books
2. E-Learning and Blended Learning
3. Availability of Open Source and Free Software
4. Leveraged Resources and OpenCourseWare
5. Learning Object Repositories and Portals
6. Learner Participation in Open Information Communities
7. Electronic Collaboration
8. Alternate Reality Learning
9. Real-Time Mobility and Portability
10. Networks of Personalized Learning

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: In The World is Open book, Bonk reviews ten technology trends he calls educational openers that form the basis of the WE-ALL-LEARN framework. There are thousands of people who have led the way for each one of these trends. These are the heroes, gurus, and revolutionaries of the shared Internet. In this talk, Bonk spotlights the ideas and interesting stories of a few of the heroes underlying each trend. These case anecdotes will help personalize and contextualize global technology events that are often too overwhelming and frustrating to keep track of. He also outlines some of the technology tools, resources, and services that are emerging with each opener to radically transform education. And he addresses questions about quality, openness, copyright, training, and so on that have arisen about the more free and open educational world. He also looks to the future and where this may eventually lead.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: In his book, The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education, Curt Bonk offers an intriguing look at ten technology trends which he called educational openers. When combined, the first letter of each opener spells the acronym: "WE-ALL-LEARN." This model helps make sense of the role of various technologies in open education and participatory environments, including e-books, podcasts, streamed videos, opencourseware, online learning portals, social networking tools like Facebook and Ning, YouTube videos, wikis, and virtual worlds. Clearly, technology-based learning continues to open new learning pathways for all the connected learners of this planet. At the same time, thousands of organizations and individuals are sharing their course materials, expertise, and instructional ideas globally, thereby expanding learning opportunities and resources even further. As this occurs, members of the media, politicians, educators, students, parents, and others are asking important questions about the quality of such contents.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Many instructors are concerned about the time required to integrate technology in instruction while the coin of the realm in higher education is research and grant money and the ultimate goal is to secure tenure. In addition to minimal rewards, they are rightfully hesitant to waste their valued time trying to learn about new technologies that are constantly changing. In addressing the confusion regarding the Web 2.0 and the new forms of digital scholarship, in this talk, Curt Bonk will briefly clarify what the Web 2.0 means and why it is important. Next, he will document dozens of ways in which scholarship is different in the Web 2.0. Among the nontraditional options confronting us are blogging, e-books, wikibooks, online conferences, author podcasts in iTune, pubcasts in SciVee, personally-built knowledge portals, and open access journals articles and documents. In addition, anyone can now publish their books and text documents using Lulu, BookSurge, Scribd, or personal Web servers. Colleges and universities, in fact, are encouraging their faculty members to post their publications online. And if you have video you want to share online, there is TeacherTube, YouTube, and CurrentTV, among many other choices. In fact, there are now professor celebrity videos in YouTube. Questions remain, however, as to which of these publishing and presenting avenues will lead to tenure, respect, and a high quality reputation. In this talk, Bonk will provide many such digital scholarship examples and offer his opinion on where this is all headed. He will also summarize some of his own research wherein he integrated technologies in his own classes while conducting research that was later published.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Many instructors are concerned about the time required to integrate technology in instruction while the coin of the realm in higher education is research and the ultimate goal is to secure tenure. They are rightfully hesitant, resistant, and reluctant to waste their valued time trying to learn about new technologies that are constantly changing and with minimal rewards. In this talk, Dr. Bonk will document how instructors can be supported in their technology integration efforts. He will then summarize fifteen years of simultaneous classroom teaching and research at Indiana University wherein he integrated distance learning and other technologies in his own classes while conducting research that was later published. The areas of his technology integration efforts include asynchronous and synchronous online conferencing, virtual teaming, and online mentoring and cross cultural collaboration. In addition, he will discuss his online learning research related to scaffolded learning, interactivity, student perceptions, instructor roles, case-based learning, and critical thinking. He will end with tips and caveats for instructors looking to integrate technology in their classrooms with several low risk, low cost, and low time strategies that work!

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience. Read article and view this presentation from The University of Calgary Learning Commons

Abstract: Hundreds of technologies exist for improving teaching and learning. There is one technology today that offers unique and free ways to change education and training across all sectors; namely, shared online video. There are video explanations, demonstrations, documentaries, lectures, and news stories. They come from places like NASA TV, Link TV, YouTube edu, CNN, the BBC, Google, TeacherTube, Academic Earth, Fora TV, etc. All of these exist for free. It is time to create innovative courses, programs, and degrees which utilize them. As this happens, traditional education will be challenged. This workshop will start with a gathering of participant opinions and voices about what this means for them. Audience questions and concerns will also be addressed.

After such interaction and brainstorming, Dr. Bonk will discuss several controversial scenarios that might result from the increasing use of shared online video in teaching and learning. He will describe around 40 popular shared online video sites (see http://www.trainingshare.com/resources/Summary_of_Ways_to_Use_Shared_Online_Video.htm). He will also offer 10 ways to use shared online video from an instructor-centered point of view as well as 10 ideas from a student-centered perspective. In addition, he will discuss what shared online video means to others (e.g., administrators, bloggers, podcasters, librarians, informal learners, corporate trainers, etc.). Dr. Bonk will also highlight his research on the motivational and instructional design aspects of popular videos in YouTube. He will explain why people watch, share, or create such online videos. In the end, the audience will brainstorm ways in which shared online video can transform their own teaching and learning settings.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

© 2010 by Curt Bonk. All rights reserved.

1. Active Learning with Technology: Myths, Magic, or Just a lot of Bonk
2. Adding Some TEC-VARIETY to Online Courses and Activities: Ten Principles for Jumbo Motivation
3. Addressing Diverse Online Learner Needs and Motivation with the Read, Reflect, Display, and Do (R2D2) and TEC-VARIETY Models (*)
4. Avoiding Natural Disasters and Outbreaks with Blended Learning (*)
5. Blended Learning: Situations, Solutions, and Several Surprises (*)
6. From R2D2 to the Matrix: A Galaxy of Online Learning Style, Motivational, and Blended Learning Examples (*)
7. Future of ICT in Schools
8. Literacy in a Digital World: Emerging Tools and Innovative Activities for the Twenty-first Century Learner (*)
9. The Perfect E-Storm: Emerging Technologies, Enormous Demand, Enhanced Pedagogy, and Erased Budgets (*)
10. The Flat World has Swung Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education (*)
11. The Rise of Shared Online Video, the Fall of Traditional Learning
12. The World is Open: Introducing the Heroes, Gurus, and Revolutionaries of the Shared Internet (*)
13. Podcasts and Wikis and Blogs, Oh My!: Online Learning is Not in Kansas Anymore
14. Promoting Constructivism in the Technology Rich Classroom
15. Wandering Through the Wonders of the Web 2.0:
16. Where are You R2D2?: Addressing Diverse Online Learner Needs and Motivation with the Read, Reflect, Display, and Do (R2D2) Model

Abstract: Myths and debates abound about the benefits of technology integration in K-12 and alternative schools. The battles are even more heated related to recent trends in online learning. Emerging educational technologies (e.g., podcasts, wikis, blogs, games and simulations, electronic portfolios, mobile computing, peer-to-peer technologies, instant messaging, etc.) are drastically changing educational opportunities for students as well as the expectations of their teachers and schools. At the same time, teachers are just beginning to realize what types of pedagogical activities (e.g., debates, mentoring, role play, brainstorming, problem-based learning, etc.) foster learner interaction, collaboration, and excitement for learning when using various educational technologies. Using his research at the intersection of technology and pedagogy, Curt Bonk will dispel myths related to the difficulty of teaching with technology, time constraints, the common obstacles, possible supports, and the overall impact of technology on learning. Effective integration of technology may appear magical, but it is more likely based on solid strategic planning, a range of administrative supports, teacher experimentation, and extensive sharing of ideas. Dr. Bonk will highlight instructional technologies and pedagogical strategies currently emerging to meet diverse student needs. He will also provide dozens of active learning ideas and solutions that motivate students and creatively engage them in deeper learning experiences. Many of these examples will come from rural Indiana schools where he has provided technology integration training for more than 5 years. Dr. Bonk is the author of the Handbook of Blended Learning Environments: Global Perspectives, Local Designs published by Pfeiffer Publishing in 2006.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Everyone is talking about the need to motivate and engage students. This is true in face-to-face classrooms and is even more true in online environments. Many students are unhappy due to bland online content and unimaginative activities. It is too lock-step and mechanized. There is no room for flexibility, choice, and creativity. Many others are bored since the course does not utilize current technologies. They love their iPods, iPhones, and other wireless and mobile technologies and want their instructors to utilize them. Some feel that the instructors have not addressed their preferred learning approaches. They want hands-on activities where they produce something meaningful as well as time to explore the resources they find the Web. All these people tend to simply want more variety, or more specifically, they want 'TEC-VARIETY'. Bonk’s new instructional design model for online learning -- TEC-VARIETY -- will break online instructors and students out of boring online learning. To simplify Web-based learning possibilities, each letter of the TEC-VARIETY model stands for a well known motivational principle, including:
(1) Tone or climate,
(2) Encouragement or feedback,
(3) Curiosity,
(4) Variety,
(5) Autonomy or choice,
(6) Relevance and meaningfulness,
(7) Interactivity and collaboration,
(8) Engagement,
(9) Tension, and
(10) Yielding products and goal setting.

During this talk, Dr. Bonk will outline dozens of active learning ideas and solutions that motivate students and creatively engage them in deeper learning experiences. It is time to break out of boring online approaches with a bit of TEC-VARIETY!!!

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Motivation is a key issue in online learning. Another concern relates to developing interactive and collaborative activities and environments. Many online students drop out of courses or do not participate since they do not address their learning preferences. Others complain of the highly mechanized online instructional approaches that bore, or, worse still, insult them. Simply put, there is a dire need to creatively engage online students in deeper and more varied approaches to online learning. A new model called Read, Reflect, Display, and Do (R2D2) is detailed in Curt Bonk’s 2008 book, "Empowering Online Learning: 100 Activities for Reading, Reflecting, Displaying, and Doing." This model or framework for online learning can address different student learning strategies or preferences. Bonk will discuss how the R2D2 method can be expanded or altered to fit your particular needs. He will also highlight his most recent instructional design method for online motivation and retention called TEC-VARIETY. Each letter of the TEC-VARIETY model stands for a well known motivational principle (e.g., tone, encouragement, curiosity, variety, etc.). Bonk has hundreds of activities examples and of how to use either of these models.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Learn how to plan for the unexpected with e-learning tools

Abstract: Gulf Coast Hurricanes, earthquakes, winter blizzards, West Coast fires, tsunamis, H1N1 virus, and SARs are just some of the unpredictable events that have disrupted learning around the nation. No one knows when a natural disaster or a disease outbreak will happen. The only thing we can do is to prepare for the worst and help our students learn with the best options we can find. In education, every hour of face time we have with students is precious. If we lose a week of instructional time out of the school year, our students lose out, too. Students still have to take college entrance exams. They still have to learn the curriculum. We all have to meet state standards.

The solution to this problem is called Blended Learning, an approach to education that combines the best of the face-to-face classroom instruction with the best of the Web. In this seminar, Avoiding Natural Disasters and Outbreaks with Blended Learning, learning technologies expert, Curt Bonk, will explain how you can create a plan for the unexpected and serve your students better. In this talk, he will lay out powerful and motivational blended learning solutions from which to choose.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Can define as well as use blended learning in many contexts and courses.
2. Grasps the advantages as well as the disadvantages of blended learning.
3. Knows how to use different blended learning approaches or models.
4. Understands how to link supplemental Web tools, activities, and resources to enhance and extend a course or unit beyond traditional boundaries.
5. More readily incorporates learning technologies and resources--low risk, low cost, low time ones as well as more risky and time consuming approaches.
6. Walks away with several blended learning options for typical problems and situations that arise (e.g., addressing diverse learners, creating communities, fostering collaboration, providing feedback, etc.).

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: During the twenty-first century, active and engaging learning is the focus. In response, teachers, schools, students, and even parents are talking about using technology for "continuous learning." School personnel throughout the world are seeking to integrate technology in effective and creative ways. Not surprisingly, many are turning to the notion of blended learning. There is both extensive confusion and much optimism about blended learning due to multiple blended learning definitions and approaches. Some might blend to take advantage of face-to-face and virtual learning opportunities. Others might blend to combine synchronous and asynchronous technologies to best meet student needs. In fact, it seems every person and organization has its own definition or model of blended learning. To make sense of the possibilities, Dr. Bonk will lay out several different models and definitions of blended learning as well as the advantages and disadvantages of blended learning. Importantly, the session will a dozen different situations or problems and more than two dozen potential blended learning solutions addressing a wide range of disciplines, grade levels, and learner needs. Many of the examples will come from Dr. Bonk’s recent Handbook of Blended learning: Global Perspectives, Local Designs.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Retention is a key issue in online learning. Another is developing interactive and collaborative activities and environments. Creating a motivational and interactive online environment can enhance student retention, completion, and overall enthusiasm for this new type of learning arena. In this talk, Curt Bonk will provide dozens of pedagogical ideas and solutions that motivate students in the online learning environments. Bonk will provide best practices in online teaching, based on research, that creatively engage students into deeper and better learning. He will walk the audience through his TEC-VARIETY model for online motivation. And later, using his R2D2 (Read-Reflect-Display-Do) learning style framework for online instructional design, he will also present engaging strategies that relate to different student learning strategies or preferences. He will also discuss how the R2D2 method can be expanded or altered to fit your particular needs. He will end with his latest online learning style model called the MATRIX. No matter what galaxy or planet you are on, these ideas and techniques can be linked student motivation, collaboration, interaction, and general engagement in the learning process. Bonk will offer many such linkages. More importantly, specific steps will be provided for each technique described in this entertaining and informative talk. As a result, this session will include many practical strategies that can be incorporated directly into one's virtual classes, events, or programs.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: This session will describe emerging ICT that can transform K-12 education, or, at least, provide a positive impetus for change. Bonk will discuss how wikis, blogs, podcasting, simulations, portfolio tools, collaborative software, online mentoring programs, virtual fieldtrips, social networking software, and dozens of other technologies can empower young learners and give them more responsibility for their own learning. Any one of the technologies described can revolutionize online education, and education in general, as we know it today. By the end of the session, all participants will reflect on which of technologies will have the most impact upon their students during the next few years and why.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Free and open educational resources as well as participatory technology tools which enable learners to generate content and ideas, not simply passively receive it, are drastically changing educational opportunities for students as well as the expectations of their teachers, schools, and school districts. The learning world is flattening in front of our eyes! As this occurs, the skills demanded of learners and teachers are shifting. New forms of literacy must be emphasized and tested. At the same time, the role of professional development expands significantly and simultaneously becomes increasingly demanding and vital. Not too surprisingly, there is mass confusion and debate regarding the use of emerging technologies in schools. Battles reign regarding how to embed Web technologies for effective fully online and blended learning opportunities in K-12 education. Emerging participatory and interactive technologies (e.g., podcasts, wikis, blogs, social networking software, etc.) as well as online gaming and simulations, virtual worlds, collaborative technologies, open courseware, learning portals, and mobile computing are providing learning opportunities never previously imagined. In this session, Bonk will discuss the digital literacy implications of these technologies, while also detailing examples of their use in innovative educational activities (e.g., cross cultural blogging, online language programs, learning sign language from a video iPod, student radio programs, student generated wikibooks, etc.) which motivate students and creatively engage them in rich and deeper forms of learning. He will also highlight the important role of professional development to assist teachers and leaders to gain the instructional intelligence that supports twenty-first century literacies. Of course, the ultimate goal is to empower learners and give them more responsibility for their own learning, while equipping them with skills to succeed at high levels in new world economies. When done, Bonk will also prompt a discussion of what digital literacy skills and competencies are required to survive in this age. During this time, he will point to ways in which blended learning provides opportunities for addressing these skills not only for students but also for timely teacher inservice training and professional development.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Learn how to teach with technology and make the most of your limited instructional technology budget

Abstract: Part 1: In the first section of this talk, Curt Bonk will discuss the reasons for the growing demand related to Web-based learning. He will then highlight the emerging technologies with the biggest educational payoffs with the least educational payouts. As we all know, our students are living in a digital world and it’s our responsibility as educators to prepare them to be successful in that world. That means that we incorporate shared online video, digital portfolios, games and simulations, and social networking technology to enhance the curriculum and engage our students. But budgets are tight and getting tighter. How do we meet the needs of our 21^st century learners on a 20^th century budget? And where should we spend our money and focus our time? It’s a perfect storm of the electrical kind.

Part II: In the second part of this talk, Curt Bonk will discuss his famed R2D2 (Read, Reflect, Display, and Do) model for addressing diverse learners and learning styles or preferences as well as his popular online learning and retention model called TEC-VARIETY (e.g., tone, encouragement, curiosity, variety, autonomy, relevance, interactivity, engagement, tension, and yielding products, etc.). With R2D2 and TEC-VARIETY, Curt Bonk will provide dozens of pedagogical ideas and solutions that motivate students in the online learning environments and creatively engage them into deeper and better learning. No matter what planet you are on, these ideas and techniques can be linked student motivation, collaboration, interaction, and general engagement in the learning process.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Becomes aware of more than a dozen emerging learning technologies and how they can impact teaching and learning in a positive way.
2. Understands how technology and pedagogy link together to offer exciting learning possibilities.
3. Can build classes that can offer outlets for learning when traditional, classroom-based teaching is impossible.
4. Learns why online learning is popular in K-12 education as well as where it is headed.
5. Has solutions for different problems or situations from swine flu to earthquakes to winter storms.
6. Can design creative and engaging activities on extremely low budgets.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Hundreds of technologies exist for improving teaching and learning. There is one technology today that offers unique and free ways to change education and training across all sectors; namely, shared online video. There are video explanations, demonstrations, documentaries, lectures, and news stories. They come from places like NASA TV, Link TV, YouTube edu, CNN, the BBC, Google, TeacherTube, Academic Earth, Fora TV, etc. All of these exist for free. It is time to create innovative courses, programs, and degrees which utilize them. As this happens, traditional education will be challenged. Dr. Bonk will discuss several controversial scenarios that might result. He will also offer 10 ways to use shared online video from an instructor-centered point of view as well as 10 ideas from a student-centered perspective. In addition, he will discuss what shared online video means to others (e.g., administrators, bloggers, podcasters, librarians, informal learners, corporate trainers, etc.). In longer versions of this talk, he will also highlight his research on the motivational and instructional design aspects of popular videos in YouTube. He will explain why people watch, share, or create such online videos. In the end, the audience will brainstorm ways in which shared online video can transform their own teaching and learning settings.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Building on Thomas Friedman's book, The World is Flat, in his book, The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education, Curt Bonk offers an intriguing look at ten technology trends which he called educational openers. When combined, the first letter of each opener spells the acronym: "WE-ALL-LEARN." This model helps make sense of the role of various technologies in open education, including online content in the form of e-books, podcasts, streamed videos, opencourseware, and online learning portals as well as participatory environments such as social networking tools like Facebook and Ning, YouTube videos, wikis, and virtual worlds. Clearly, Web technology continues to open new learning pathways for all the connected learners of this planet. At the same time, thousands of people and educational organizations are sharing their course materials, expertise, and teaching ideas globally, thereby expanding learning opportunities and resources even further. As this occurs, members of the media, politicians, educators, students, parents, and others are asking important questions about the quality of such contents. Some want to know if personally selected content might lead to school or college credits or even degrees. Curt Bonk provides some answers while helping you make sense of all the technologies emerging for use by teachers and students. Bonk also addresses questions related to the digital divide and how, from a learning perspective, those without Internet access still benefit immensely and in interesting ways. The economic world of Friedman may be flatter, but the educational world is definitely more open than is was a decade or even a few years ago. Open up and enjoy it. When you do WE-ALL-LEARN.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

In 2005, Thomas Friedman introduced us to a flatter world. Four years later, Curt Bonks book, "The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education," helped show us how the flatter world has become much more open for teaching and learning across all age groups, educational sectors, and regions of the world. In The World is Open book, Bonk reviews ten technology trends he calls educational openers. These ten trends form the basis of his WE-ALL-LEARN framework. WE-ALL-LEARN is an optimistic view of the potential for a more free and open educational world. There are thousands of people who have led the way for each one of these trends. These are the heroes, gurus, and revolutionaries of the shared Internet. In this talk, Bonk spotlights the ideas and interesting stories of a few of the heroes underlying each trend. These case anecdotes will help personalize and contextualize global technology events that are often too overwhelming and frustrating to keep track of. He also outlines some of the technology tools, resources, and services that are emerging with each opener to radically transform education. And he addresses questions about quality, openness, copyright, training, and so on that have arisen about the more free and open educational world. He also looks to the future and where this may eventually lead.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: It is time to be honest about online learning - the continued emergence of online technologies has pushed us into strange lands not previously visited. Unfortunately, we have not all landed in the emerald city. It is not just about the pedagogy, nor is it about the technology. What matters is the thoughtful integration of both. One need not be a scarecrow, however. This fun packed session will travel to Oz for a look at how online learning can be made intellectually and pedagogically rich, highly collaborative, and engaging. It will link emerging technologies such as podcasts and wikis and blogs to dozens of pedagogical uses. After participants click their heels three times, the session will provide many motivational, collaborative, and interactive uses of these technologies. It will also provide ways to address the learning preferences or styles of diverse learners, including millennial and Generation X and Y learners as well as that of the munchkins. Bonk will try to show participants the yellow brick road to follow in negotiating all the emerging technologies and pedagogies. Then, if the Wicked Witches of the East or the West do not interfere, he will turn these ideas into visions of where we should go next - toward a community of innovative online teachers and curriculum developers who seamlessly share their best online teaching ideas and practices.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Constructivism is a confusing concept that is often connected to technology- rich classrooms. This session, therefore, will offer guidance in defining or labeling it as well as comparing it to other progressive educational ideas and trends. During the session, many examples of constructivistic use of technology will be provided and compared. These will be linked to instructional activities and performance assessment. Advice for getting started will be offered.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Free and open educational resources as well as participatory Web 2.0 technology tools are drastically changing educational opportunities for students as well as the expectations of their teachers, schools, and school districts. The learning world is flattening in front of our eyes! As this occurs, the role of professional development expands significantly and simultaneously becomes increasingly demanding and vital. Not too surprisingly, there is mass confusion and debate regarding the use of Web 2.0 technologies in schools. Battles reign regarding how to embed Web technologies for effective fully online and blended learning opportunities in K-12 education. Emerging participatory and interactive technologies (e.g., podcasts, wikis, blogs, social networking software, etc.) as well as online gaming and simulations, virtual worlds, collaborative technologies, open courseware, learning portals, and mobile computing are providing learning opportunities never previously imagined. When properly aligned with pedagogy, any one of these technologies can revolutionize education as we know it today; however, it is clearly time to ponder their collective effects. In this session, Bonk will discuss the implications of these technologies, while also detailing examples of their use in innovative educational activities (e.g., cross cultural blogging, online language programs, learning sign language from a video iPod, student radio programs, student generated wikibooks, etc.) which motivate students and creatively engage them in rich and deeper forms of learning. Of course, the ultimate goal is to empower learners and give them more responsibility for their own learning. When done, Bonk will also prompt discussions of what skills and competencies are required to survive in this age as well as how blended learning provides opportunities not only for students but also for timely teacher inservice training and professional development. The time is now for wandering through the wonders of the Web 2.0!

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Teachers, technology coordinators, and principals are frustrated trying to keep up with the never ending parade of new learning technologies. So many choices! Add to that the scores of people saying teachers should embed them in their teaching. Then there are complaints that few teachers were trained on how to develop highly interactive and collaborative online activities and environments. Teachers are once again told that students will quickly complain about their classes if they do not address their learning preferences or appropriately use the technologies that they have access to outside of school. Time to pull the hair out? Not yet. There is hope. An innovative model called Read, Reflect, Display, and Do (R2D2) is detailed in Curt Bonk’s book, "Empowering Online Learning: 100 Activities for Reading, Reflecting, Displaying, and Doing." In this talk, Bonk will detail dozens of examples and ways to use R2D2 make your use of technology more engaging, empowering, and exciting. The R2D2 model can be expanded to meet your needs, no matter the discipline you teach or age of your students. As you will see, integrating technology need not be difficult. This four-part model not only simplifies the process, it can accelerate learning and provide a mechanism for discussing and sharing technology integration ideas with others. Perhaps it is time for you to taken an adventure to a new learning galaxy where you find R2D2 and begin using technology to address the diverse learners you find there.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

© 2010 by Curt Bonk. All rights reserved.

1. Best Practices of Blended Learning: Situations, Solutions, and Several Surprises (*)
2. E-Learning Myths, Magic, and Motivational Strategies
3. Simulations, Interactivity, and Collaboration for Highly Motivating E-Learning
4. The Flat World has Swung Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education (*)
5. The Rise of Shared Online Video, the Fall of Traditional Learning
6. The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education (*)
7. The World is Open: Introducing the Heroes, Gurus, and Revolutionaries of the Shared Internet (*)
8. Workshop: Blended Learning: Models, Cases, Stories, and Examples

Abstract: There is both extensive confusion and much optimism about blended learning due to multiple blended learning definitions and approaches. In fact, in corporate training, the major obstacle trainers have identified is a lack of understanding of just what blended learning is. Some might blend to take advantage of face-to-face and virtual learning opportunities. Others might blend to combine synchronous and asynchronous technologies to best meet learner needs. Still others might blend to create customized learning and address learning styles. To addresses these issues, Dr. Bonk will lay out several different models and definitions of blended learning from companies such as Microsoft, IBM, and Sun Microsystems from his recent Handbook of Blended learning: Global Perspectives, Local Designs. He will also discuss various advantages and disadvantages of blended learning in corporate training. Importantly, the session will include a dozen different situations or problems and more than 50 potential blended learning solutions that can be incorporated in many types of training environments. Many of the examples will come from Dr. Bonks Blended Learning handbook. Dr. Bonk will also tap into recent data he has collected on the present and future state of blended learning around the planet. During 2005 and 2006, he has been collecting data on blended learning in corporate training settings in Taiwan , China , Korea , the United States , and the UK . Some of this data will surprise you! In the second half of this session, small teams of participants (instructional designers, trainers, instructors, managers, etc.) will build and later present their own blended learning models. They will also solve different blended learning situations with their own innovative solutions. Participants will leave the one day workshop with many ideas regarding how to incorporate blended learning in their own workplace settings. Situations! Solutions! And, of course, many surprises!!!!

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: As with any emerging field, there are a myriad of myths related to e- learning. Based on his research and using a tad bit of magic, Dr. Bonk will dispel a series of e-learning myths related to corporate training settings. Some of the myths he will address include the perception of low completion rates and lack of interaction within e-learning. To combat these particular myths, he will detail a series of activities that can be used to motivate adult learners in online environments. He will also provide an overview of the types of online activities and support structures that corporate trainers and training managers found to be highly motivational. Additionally, he will include a discussion of emerging tools for e-learning collaboration and sharing. The session will link motivational principles to actual e-learning techniques in both synchronous and asynchronous environments. It will also include activities for both instructor-led as well as self-paced e-learning. During that discussion, motivational principles related to tone or climate, feedback, engagement, meaningfulness, choice, variety, curiosity, tension, interactivity, and goals will each be highlighted with at least two instructional activities suitable for e-learning.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Learner motivation and retention are major online learning issues. Complaints abound about the higher attrition rates and lack of interaction in online environments. E-learners are too often bored online and not engaged in the learning event. However, these complaints are increasing just as many innovative simulation, gaming, scenario, and other e-learning technologies are emerging. In response, this session will showcase a range of simulation tools and games for the Web, from low-level learner-content interactions to massive multiplayer online games. The pros and cons of different types of simulation tools will be detailed, while key advantages and disadvantages of scenario and simulation tools will be compared. Other tools discussed during this presentation will include those for online translation, online learning communities, case-based learning, chat, virtual classrooms, brainstorming, testing, and survey and polling, as well as wearable and wireless technologies. In addition, all technologies and activities will be sorted into synchronous and asynchronous categories. In the end, this session links motivational principles, interactivity, and collaboration to actual online techniques and tool development efforts. Extensive examples and advice will be provided.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Building on Thomas Friedman's book, The World is Flat, Curt Bonk offers an intriguing look at ten technology trends which he called educational openers. As detailed in his new book, "The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education", when combined, the first letter of each opener spells the acronym: "WE-ALL-LEARN." E-learning and blended learning are key components that make up the second opener of this framework. Dr. Bonk will detail different blended learning approaches used in training settings as well as several blended learning problems and solutions. The WE-ALL-LEARN model also helps make sense of the role of various technologies in open education, including open courseware, open source software, open access journals, open educational resources, and open information communities. As part of this, he will discuss e-books, podcasts, streamed videos, online learning portals social networking tools like Facebook and Ning, YouTube videos, wikis, and virtual worlds. With such technologies, thousands of organizations, trainers, and scholars are sharing their course materials, expertise, and teaching ideas globally, thereby expanding learning opportunities and resources even further. As this occurs, members of the media, politicians, training departments, educators, students, parents, and others are asking important questions about the quality of such contents. Bonk also addresses questions related to the digital divide and how those without Internet access still benefit immensely from these open learning tools and resources. The economic world of Friedman may be flatter, but the educational world is definitely more open than is was a decade or even a few years ago. Open up and enjoy it!

Key words: Open educational resources, blended learning and e-learning, open education, emerging technology, wikis, podcasts, virtual worlds, e-books, online language learning, open source software, collaborative technologies, mobile learning, personalized learning environments.

Associated Book: Curtis J. Bonk (July 2009). The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, a Wiley imprint. (Book homepage: http://worldisopen.com/)

Framework for Talk: The 10 doors for learning in the twenty-first century will be detailed which spell WE-ALL-LEARN.

Ten Openers: (WE-ALL-LEARN)

1. Web Searching in the World of e-Books
2. E-Learning and Blended Learning
   
   
3. Availability of Open Source and Free Software
4. Leveraged Resources and OpenCourseWare
5. Learning Object Repositories and Portals
   
   
6. Learner Participation in Open Information Communities
7. Electronic Collaboration
8. Alternate Reality Learning
9. Real-Time Mobility and Portability
10. Networks of Personalized Learning

    For example, what sorts of recommendations will you give to the audience?

    1. Instead of reaction to each new technology trend or idea individually, use frameworks to plan for technology integration.
    2. If something new arises that does not fit the framework, initially ignore it. Too much new technology emerges each week to pay attention to each one.
    3. Think about growing trends such as greater reliance on informal learning in the workplace and for all sectors of learning.
    4. Include ideas for offering open educational resources in strategic planning.
    5. The learning management system is giving way to personalized learning environments.
    6. Experiment with different blended models. There is no one best approach - it depends on audience, goals, content, time available, etc.
    7. Global and cross-cultural training and education is exploding as are the collaborative tools that make it possible. Think about the ways in which you might develop global training communities, feedback, collaboration, and interaction.
    8. Trainer jobs are changing. More emphasis on counseling, human development, mentoring, moderating, and guiding skills. We will soon see the rise of the super e-mentor and coaches.
    9. Be a leader in one or more trend areas. For example, offer courses, institutes, Webinars, and workshops on e-books, open education, personalized learning, global education, simulations, virtual worlds, etc.
    10. Experiment with wikis, Google Docs, and other tools for online collaboration; they change the training environment by empowering your employees and giving them a voice.

    What recent events or factors make the topic of importance?

    1. Economic crisis and budget cuts makes free and open technology appealing or at least more interesting.
    2. New announcements related to e-book readers and government initiatives for digital books.
    3. Continued interest in Thomas Friedmans book, The World is Flat. Many corporations, training organizations, and institutions of higher learning use it for retreats. However, only part of it addresses the needs of training and education.
    4. The recent explosion of online language learning. Millions of people now learn languages online and many of them teach a language online as well.
    5. Billions of people now have mobile phone access. How can training be delivered that way?
    6. The growing acceptance of the open educational resources (OER) and OpenCourseWare (OCW) movement started at MIT which hundreds of schools and institutions of higher learning have joined in. What might corporations, government and military agencies, and non-profit institutes do to join in the OER and OCW movement?
    7. The proliferation of tools for online collaboration and interaction.
    8. The growing emphasis in learning on-demand and in smaller chunks of knowledge.
    9. Resources like YouTube, Wikipedia, Facebook, and Blogger are what the Net Generation is using for their learning. It is time to reflect on how to incorporate them in instruction.
    10. A recent research report from the federal government indicates that blended learning results in the most powerful learning outcomes and fully online learning is better than face-to-face instruction.

    Goals of the Presentation: ("After participating in this talk, participants will be able to ...")

    1. Become aware of many recent technology trends impacting learning around the world.
    2. Acquire a framework to make sense of parallel trends in learning technologies.
    3. Have a wealth of Web resources for next steps and strategic planning (see http://worldisopen.com/).
    4. Understand the ways in which to make learning environments more blended, virtual, collaborative, personal, and mobile.
    5. Grasp new directions in open education and open educational resources.
    6. Reflect on how to employ emerging technologies from a pedagogical standpoint.
    7. Gain ideas for strategically planning new teaching and learning directions, including empowering learners and creating learner-centered instruction.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: Hundreds of technologies exist for improving teaching and learning. There is one technology today that offers unique and free ways to change education and training across all sectors; namely, shared online video. There are video explanations, demonstrations, documentaries, lectures, and news stories. They come from places like NASA TV, Link TV, YouTube edu, CNN, the BBC, Google, TeacherTube, Academic Earth, Fora TV, etc. All of these exist for free. It is time to create innovative courses, programs, and degrees which utilize them. As this happens, traditional education will be challenged. Dr. Bonk will discuss several controversial scenarios that might result. He will also offer 10 ways to use shared online video from an instructor-centered point of view as well as 10 ideas from a student-centered perspective. In addition, he will discuss what shared online video means to others (e.g., administrators, bloggers, podcasters, librarians, informal learners, corporate trainers, etc.). In longer versions of this talk, he will also highlight his research on the motivational and instructional design aspects of popular videos in YouTube. He will explain why people watch, share, or create such online videos. In the end, the audience will brainstorm ways in which shared online video can transform their own teaching and learning settings.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: According to Thomas Friedman's book, The World is Flat, worldwide economic trends are flattening. In education, however, opportunities for learning are actually expanding or opening up through a myriad of emerging distance technologies. These opportunities can be seen in ten technology trends that spell the acronym: "WE-ALL-LEARN." Online content in the form of e-books, podcasts, streamed videos, YouTube videos, social networking, wikis, and alternate reality worlds continues to open new learning pathways. At the same time, more instructors are sharing their course materials and teaching ideas globally, thereby expanding learning opportunities and resources. And the software used to deliver such online learning contents and experiences is increasingly available as open source. Curt Bonk will address these issues while enticing participants to think of implications for their organizations, countries, and regions of the world as well as for themselves as leaders and learners. Note that the WE-ALL-LEARN model is described in Curt Bonks latest book, "The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education." This book is published by Jossey Bass in July 2009 and has a coinciding e-book with different content. The e-book and all book references and resources can be found at WorldisOpen.com. Extensive examples and advice will be provided.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

In 2005, Thomas Friedman introduced us to a flatter world. Four years later, Curt Bonks book, "The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education," helped show us how the flatter world has become much more open for teaching and learning across all age groups, educational sectors, and regions of the world. In The World is Open book, Bonk reviews ten technology trends he calls educational openers. These ten trends form the basis of his WE-ALL-LEARN framework. WE-ALL-LEARN is an optimistic view of the potential for a more free and open educational world. There are thousands of people who have led the way for each one of these trends. These are the heroes, gurus, and revolutionaries of the shared Internet. In this talk, Bonk spotlights the ideas and interesting stories of a few of the heroes underlying each trend. These case anecdotes will help personalize and contextualize global technology events that are often too overwhelming and frustrating to keep track of. He also outlines some of the technology tools, resources, and services that are emerging with each opener to radically transform education. And he addresses questions about quality, openness, copyright, training, and so on that have arisen about the more free and open educational world. He also looks to the future and where this may eventually lead.

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

Abstract: There is both extensive confusion and much optimism about blended learning due to multiple blended learning definitions and approaches. In fact, in corporate training, the major obstacle trainers have identified is a lack of understanding of just what blended learning is. Some might blend to take advantage of face-to-face and virtual learning opportunities. Others might blend to combine synchronous and asynchronous technologies to best meet learner needs. To addresses these issues, Dr. Bonk will explain the concept of blended learning and then provide different models, stories, cases, and examples of it. His stories will come from real world problems and solutions at Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems that are documented in his recent Handbook of Blended Learning: Global Perspectives, Local Designs. He will also include survey data from more than 100 companies in Taiwan on the current and future state of blended learning as well as that from four other countries ( Korea , China , US, and UK ) collected in 2006. Interesting differences will be pointed out. While discussing the different cases and stories, it will become obvious what the advantages and disadvantages of blended learning in corporate training are. Importantly, the session will include at least 10 different case stories and associated problem situations. Of course, solutions to these problems will be offered that can be incorporated in many types of training environments. This will be a highly interactive and engaging session. Throughout the workshop, and especially in the second half, small teams of participants will build and later present their own blended learning stories, examples, situations, and solutions. They will also solve different blended learning situations with their own innovative solutions. Participants will leave the one day workshop with many sample cases and ideas regarding how to incorporate blended learning in their own workplace settings. What will be your story?

Keep in mind that Dr. Bonk will gladly tailor any of his presentations to your specific needs. With enough lead time, most talks or presentations can be altered for almost any audience.

© 2010 by Curt Bonk. All rights reserved.