| These students, not surprisingly, have come to rely on easy-to-access online resources such as Google and Wikipedia as if oblivious to peer-reviewed scholarship. A popular e-learning book, Curtis Bonk has given over 808 talks around the globe related to online teaching and learning, including ones at universities in Ireland, China, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, Spain, Iceland, Korea, Finland, the UK, and the Saudi Arabia. In addition to being an expert e-learning book, Dr. Bonk has over 205 publications on topics such as massive multiplayer online gaming, Wikibooks, online learning pedagogy, open source software, collaborative technologies, blogging, and synchronous and asynchronous computer conferencing. 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. One response-testing for these new digital skills-is not surprising. Educational Testing Service (ETS), the world's largest private educational testing and measurement organization based in Princeton, NJ, has developed tests for information and communication (ICT) literacy. Sample scenarios require the test taker to research a topic on the Web, find information from multiple sources, and compare found information to the initial problem statement. |