This week's Optional Live Guest Lecture

Associated with this, the third delivery of this MOOC is an "Extended Virtual Symposium" which consists of a webinar series starting on the 13th October.  All webinars can be accessed at http://itsligo.adobeconnect.com/moocs4all (Links to an external site.)

You can access all recordings after the webinars through our website at: https://moocs4all.eu/2016/09/19/moocs4all-extended-virtual-symposium/ (Links to an external site.) 

This week's guest lecture is:

  • Thu Oct 27 at 4pm – Donald Clark – PlanB Learning, UK.

Title: Low cost learning and assessment through the use of AI.

Donald will explain why AI has a lot to offer in lifting MOOCs out of their linear, video and text slumber with effortful learning.

donald-300x169Donald Clark is an EdTech entrepreneur. He 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. As well as being the 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. He is also a Visiting Professor and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).  He has worked in schools, vocational, higher, corporate and adult learning, delivering real projects to real learners. These include change management, strategy, tool selection, content design and build.  Donald has over 30 years experience in online learning, games, simulations, semantic, adaptive, social media, mobile learning, virtual reality and AI projects. He has designed, delivered and advised on online learning for many global, public and private organisations. He is an evangelist for the use of technology in learning and has won many awards, including the first ‘Outstanding Achievement in E-learning Award’ and ‘Best AIM Stock Market Company’.  An award winning speaker at national and international conferences, he has delivered keynotes in Europe. US, Africa, Australia, Middle and Far East.

…… also a regular (and controversial) blogger (10 years+) on learning technology, his iconoclastic pieces on learning theory, MOOCs, VR, AI, Robinson, Mitra and others, attracted lots of attention. His series on learning theorists is a valuable open resource.