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Curt Bonk decided to leave the business world in the 1980s, where he had been a CPA and corporate controller. Professor Bonk opted to pursue an educational psychology graduate program at the University of Wisconsin in Madison Wisconsin. Professor Bonk noticed that his colleagues wanted flexible and creative employees who could look beyond the numbers in an information- based economy. Professor Bonk became interested in whether education or psychology could inform the development of higher-order thinking skills and teamwork in various environments. What Dr. Bonk found was that most students were not being properly prepared for the new world-wide marketplace. Instead, many educational institutions emphasized the memorization of facts and the acquisition of relatively isolated sub-skills. Most teachers Dr. Bonk observed stressed individual learning over cooperative learning. As an e-learning speaker, Dr. Bonk believes that human learning is largely a social enterprise and most labor is performed more effectively by teams of people. Professor Bonk's speaking, research, teaching, and service efforts at major universities over the past decade have been in response to these e-learning interests and discoveries. |
E-Learning Speaker Resources And Workshop Keynote Links
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