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Active Learning with Technology: Myths, Magic, and Mucho Motivation 
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Event: 30th McGraw-Hill Ryerson National Teaching, Learning and Technology Conference
Type of Event: Keynote Conference Webcast
Date: May 14 - 16, 2007
Time: coming soon
Location: Concordia University Montreal, Québec
Notes: (This event will be archived on this page at 5:00pm (GMT -05:00) Eastern Canadian time for future viewing.)

 

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.

Speaker Bio:
Dr. Curtis Bonk is a former corporate controller and CPA, who, after becoming sufficiently bored with that, received his master's and Ph.D. degrees in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin. He is now Professor of Instructional Systems Technology and adjunct in the School of Informatics at Indiana University (IU). Dr. Bonk is also a Senior Research Fellow with the Advanced Distributed Learning Lab within the Department of Defense. He has received numerous teaching and mentoring awards from IU as well as the CyberStar Award from the Indiana Information Technology Association, the Most Outstanding Achievement Award from the U.S. Distance Learning Association, and the Most Innovative Teaching in a Distance Education Program Award from the State of Indiana. During the past two years, Dr. Bonk has presented nearly 200 talks around the globe related to online teaching and learning, including ones at universities in China, Taiwan, Thailand, Korea, Finland, Ireland, Singapore, Spain, Iceland, the UK, and the United Arab Emirates.

Curt has more than 150 publications on topics such as online learning pedagogy, massive multiplayer online gaming, collaborative technologies, synchronous and asynchronous computer conferencing, and frameworks for Web-based instruction and evaluation. His highly popular "Handbook of Blended Learning Environments: Global Perspectives, Local Designs," was published by Pfeiffer Publishing in 2006. He is now working on a book with Jossey-Bass to explain his online learning preferences framework, R2D2, titled, "A Web of Learning (Part I): 100+ Ideas for Online Learner Reading, Reflecting, Displaying, and Doing." Finally, he is President of CourseShare and SurveyShare and can be contacted at cjbonk@indiana.edu.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://php.indiana.edu/~cjbonk/

  
Dr. Curtis J. Bonk
Dr. Curtis J. Bonk


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