Perspectives: Donald Clark
Channel: Center for Online Innovation in Learning
Date: 2016-11-28

In this video, COIL Co-Director Larry Ragan interviews Prof. Donald Clark, CEO WildFire.

Perspectives is a video interview series developed by the Center for Online Innovation in Learning at Penn State University exploring emerging trends and forces in higher education with thought leaders from the world of online innovations.

Throughout this series, we ask leading thinkers a set of three questions derived from COIL's regular environmental scanning efforts. The questions are intended to explore their thoughts related to online innovations and their impacts on learning. The questions asked in this video are:

1. What does the word retention mean to you in the context of online learning?
2. If you had no limits on time or money, what system would you build to enable students to maintain progress toward and achieve their educational goals?
3. Could you describe a good first step to building such a system and improving the retention rates for our students?

Donald Clark is an EdTech entrepreneur and was CEO and one of the original founders of Epic Group plc, which established itself as the leading company in the UK online learning market, floated on the Stock Market in 1996 and sold in 2005, now CEO of Wildfire Ltd. he also invests in, and advises, EdTech companies. Describing himself as ‘free from the tyranny of employment’, he is a board member of Cogbooks, LearningPool, WildFire and Deputy Chair of Brighton Dome & Arts Festival as well as a Visiting Professor at The University of Derby and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).

Donald has over 30 years experience in online learning, games, simulations, semantic, adaptive, social media, mobile learning, virtual reality and AI projects and is an award winning speaker at national and international conferences, having delivered keynotes in Europe, US, Africa, Australia, Middle and Far East.…… also a regular (and controversial) blogger (10 years+) on learning technology.

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