Keynote Speaker: Dr. Curtis J. Bonk, Indiana University
Education 20/20 meets Education 4.0: Visions of Our Changing Learning World!
The pervasive boredom of rote learning seen in Education 1.0 yielded to a more learner-centered age of Education 2.0 a few decades ago. Today instructors are confronted with the possibilities and dilemmas of Education 3.0. But now with climate change, economic unrest, the rise of robotics and AI, world population shifts, and so on, the innovation age of Education 4.0 is coming. This is the age of Education 3.0 where learning is more informal, resource-rich, and self-directed and where learner creation of products is the new norm, often with the use of digital media. During the past few years, learning has become increasingly collaborative, global, mobile, flipped, modifiable, open, online, blended, massive, visually-based, hands-on, ubiquitous, instantaneous, on-demand, adaptive, and personal. We are living in an age of educational resource abundance where passion, play, purpose, and freedom to learn to take precedence over the traditional information reception models of learning. The best instructors and experts today are most effective as curators, counselors, consultants, concierges, and cultivators of our learning. And now they can appear instantaneously on a mobile device. That is a sign that Education 4.0 is not far away. New instructor roles require a unique and evolving set of guiding principles. Professor Bonk will detail a set of 20 “last” principles of instruction with his “Learning Activation System Template” (LAST) including the Principle of Flexibility, the Principle of Meaningful Learning, the Principle of Choice and Options, the Principle of Cheerfulness and Optimism, the Principle of Spontaneity, the Principle of High Expectations, the Principle of Nontraditional Learning, etc. Suffice to say, there is immense change around the world today related to new forms of learning typically involving technology. In fact, there are three megatrends related to learning technology today: (1) technologies for engagement; (2) technologies for pervasive access; and (3) technologies for the personalization and customization of learning. To better understand these new forms of learning delivery, Professor Bonk will discuss these three megatrends as well as his recent research on the personalization of e-learning. Along the way, insights will be offered into how one might teach in this new learning age.
The following open access article relates to the keynote speech.
Bonk, C. J. (2016). What is the state of e-learning?: Reflections on 30 ways learning is changing. Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning, 20(2), 6-20. Available: http://jofdl.nz/index.php/JOFDL/article/viewFile/300/205 and http://www.jofdl.nz/index.php/JOFDL/article/view/300
The following open access article relates to the keynote speech.
Bonk, C. J. (2016). What is the state of e-learning?: Reflections on 30 ways learning is changing. Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning, 20(2), 6-20. Available: http://jofdl.nz/index.php/JOFDL/article/viewFile/300/205 and http://www.jofdl.nz/index.php/JOFDL/article/view/300
Bio: Dr. Curtis Bonk is a Professor at Indiana University (IU) teaching educational psychology and technology courses. Drawing on his background as a corporate controller, CPA, educational psychologist, and instructional technologist, Dr. Bonk offers insights into the intersection of business, education, psychology, and technology. His blog is “TravelinEdMan” and his books include, The World Is Open, Empowering Online Learning, The Handbook of Blended Learning, Electronic Collaborators, Adding Some TEC-VARIETY (free as an eBook http://tec-variety.com/), and MOOCs and Open Education Around the World (http://www.moocsbook.com/). In addition to a dozen books, he has published more than 100 journal articles and over 50 book chapters on research related to various emerging learning technologies, online and blended learning, MOOCs and open education, and the global impacts from collaborative technology. In 2020, Dr. Bonk was awarded the IU President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Technology. For more, see http://curtbonk.com/ or contact: [email protected]