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| World Is Open By Curtis Bonk is an exciting look into how technology is opening up the world E-Learning Book The ability to use many features in Microsoft Word, for instance, is certainly no guarantee a unique paper or creative poem will materialize. Andrea Foster notes that College students use technology constantly. They text-message friends, compile playlists for their iPods, and are whizzes at updating their MySpace profiles. In 1996 there were 10,000 scholarly databases online; now they exceed 18,000. Dr. Bonk is the author of many books, including the Handbook of Blended Learning: Global Perspectives, Local Designs (2006) as well as Empowering Online Learning: 100+ Activities for Reading, Reflecting, Displaying, and Doing (2008). In addition to being a popular e-learning book, Dr. Bonk has received the Most Outstanding Achievement Award from the U.S. Distance Learning Association, the CyberStar Award from the Indiana Information Technology Association, and the Most Innovative Teaching in a Distance Education Program Award from the State of Indiana.
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