David White has a B.A. in Time-Based Media (formally, in Ethnographic Filmmaking) and an M.A. in Film and European Cinema, both awarded by the University of the West of England.

David has worked in the crossover area between education and online development for over ten years, consulting on and developing new forms of online educational media and interaction for the BBC, Channel 4, and Oxford University. He was a Senior Lecturer in the communication and media field at the University of the West of England specializing in interactive narrative. David has been the co-manager of Technology-Assisted Lifelong Learning (TALL) for two years, and in that time he has helped to develop and run a suite of online distance courses and has been the principal researcher on a number of JISC-funded e-learning projects which have studied issues such as formal and informal sharing online and the culture of online course development.