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David Smith
David Smith

University of Wales College, Newport, UK

Originally educated as a marine biologist, David Smith has followed a career track which has included researching fish physiology, lecturing in the Malawi Polytechnic, teaching biology in UK schools, digging on archaeological sites and heading up the Centre for Evaluation of IT in Education at the National Foundation for Educational Research. David has held research fellowships at Huddersfield Polytechnic and Southampton University. At Southampton, he and Morley Sage published the influential Sage and Smith Report, "Computers in Education, a Framework for Research" (ESRC, London, 1983).

In the late eighties, he and a group of colleagues from the University of East Anglia founded AVC Multimedia Ltd, developing commercial multimedia and health data management systems for clients such as the World Health Organization. At the end of 1995, David joined the then Newport School of Art and Design as Course Leader, to design and set up new undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Multimedia. He is now Head of Research and Enterprise in the School of Art, Media and Design, University of Wales College Newport. He is responsible for the School’s Applied Enterprise Centre, and is involved in a range of consultancies and applied research projects.

He has published widely in both conventional and multimedia formats.

Areas of Expertise
    • Multimedia Knowledge Engineering
    • Media-based distance education and training
    • Human-centred systems research and development
    • Cross-cultural communication
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Indicative Publications

Sage, M.W. & Smith, D.J. 1983. Microcomputers in education: a framework for research (Sage & Smith Report) London: SSRC.

Smith, D.J. 1985 (ed.). Computers in Education: signposts and research directions. London: Economic & Social Research Council.

Smith, D.J. & Keep, R.J. 1986. Children's opinions of educational software. Journal of Educational Research 28(2), 83-88.

Smith, D.J. 1988. (ed.) New technologies and professional communications in education. London: National Council for Educational Technology.

Smith, D.J. 1989. Microcomputers in Schools. Commissioned entry in Eraut, M. (ed) International encyclopaedia of educational technology. Oxford: Pergamon.

Smith, D.J. 1990 Assessment, Technology and the Quality Revolution. in Bell, C. (ed) World Yearbook of Education. London: Kogan Page, pp 41-56.

Smith, D.J. & Hilton, J.K. 1992. MEDICA: A multimedial medical diagnostic assistant. In Noothoven van Goor, J. & Pihlkjaer, J. (eds) Exploring Advanced Informatics in Medicine. Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp 243-251.

Smith D.J. & Coyle J. 2000/. Fly’s Eye View: Introducing young children to digital art through virtual reality. Journal of Art and Design Education 19, 200-207.

Smith DJ. 1999. The University of the Future and the Future of the University. Proceedings, Council of Europe Conference on Cultural Work in the Information Society. Rome. Council of Europe, Strasbourg

Smith DJ and Hall J. 2000. Know-how archiving as a component of corporate knowledge management strategy: a case study in aviation industry training. Paper presented to IFAC International Conference on Automated Systems Based on Human Skill. Aachen.

Smith DJ 2000. Convergence and the future of IT in the ‘University of the Future’. Invited speech, ITT-2000, Bangalore, India.

Smith DJ 2002 Communicating Tacit Knowledge across cultures: a multimedia archive of the Bankura Dhokra craft industry of West Bengal as a case of the artificial. In Negrotti M (ed.) The Yearbook of the Artificial. Bern, Peter Lang.

 

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