Bryan Alexander (NITLE - National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education)

Bryan Alexander is Director for Research at the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, where he researches the advanced uses of information technology in liberal education. A PhD graduate of the University of Michigan, he taught English and information technology studies as faculty at Centenary College of Louisiana. His primary research interests concern mobile and wireless computing, digital gaming, and social software. Other interests include digital writing, copyright and intellectual property, information literacy, project management, information design, and interdisciplinary collaboration. He maintains and contributes to a series of weblogs, including NITLE Liberal Education Today (http://b2e.nitle.org/) and Smartmobs (http://www.smartmobs.com). Committed to exploring computer-mediated pedagogy, he continues to research and write on the critical uses of computers and teaching in terms of interdisciplinary liberal arts and the contemporary development of cyberculture.