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Key members of NITLE’s staff are available to speak on a range of topics related to the transformative potential of integrating inquiry, technology, and pedagogy at liberal arts colleges. Talks aim to help campuses think strategically about curricular development, student engagement, faculty development, and digital pedagogy in the context of broader institutional goals. To invite a NITLE speaker to your campus or event, please contact Arden Baxter at abaxter@nitle.org or (512) 863-1603.

Jump to: Bryan Alexander | Lisa Spiro | Rebecca Davis | Joey King

Bryan Alexander, Ph.D.image

Bryan Alexander’s primary research interests center on emerging trends in the integration of inquiry, pedagogy, and technology and their potential application to liberal arts contexts. He researches, writes, and speaks about emergent, technology-enabled pedagogical forms and the learning processes and outcomes associated with them. Areas he is currently exploring are mobile pedagogy, immersive learning environments, the digital humanities, and futurist methodologies.

Dr. Alexander is available to speak on

  • Scenarios for the future: what’s emerging & how it will impact your campus
  • Net-generation students: technology use, competencies, and expectations
  • Deploying digital gaming on campus: teaching, research, and library applications
  • Mobile devices and the liberal arts: issues, cases, platforms, and trends
  • Using social media for learning, research, and campus life
  • Strategies for staying abreast of new technological developments
  • Evaluating new technologies for learning and managing the adoption process
  • Digital storytelling as a pedagogical practice.

 Dr. Alexander also consults for NITLE in the area of futures and scenario modeling.

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Lisa Spiro, Ph.D.image

Lisa Spiro’s research interests include the digital humanities, user studies, open education, the transformation of libraries, and software evaluation. Before becoming director of NITLE Labs, she directed the Digital Media Center at Rice University’s Fondren Library, where she oversaw the campus’ central multimedia lab, worked with instructors on integrating technology into the curriculum, and contributed to digital library projects. Lisa is available to speak on

  • Emerging technologies that may change education
  • Evaluating educational software
  • Why the digital humanities matter
  • Open access / open education
  • An introduction to scholarly communication
  • Digital media and education
  • The significance of collaboration in digital scholarship
  • Libraries in transition/ all-digital libraries
  • Information technology and the archival workflow

Dr. Spiro also consults for NITLE in the area of futures and scenario modeling.

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Rebecca Frost Davis, Ph.D.image

Rebecca Davis is a classicist by training and an alumna of Vanderbilt University (Russian and classical studies) and the University of Pennsylvania. She served on the faculties of Rhodes College, Denison University, and Sewanee: The University of the South before turning her attention to issues of instructional technology at the Associated Colleges of the South’s Technology Center and, later, NITLE.

Rebecca is available to speak on

  • Digital humanities and the undergraduate curriculum
  • Helping faculty use technology to support pedagogical goals
  • Encouraging faculty adoption of mission-appropriate technologies
  • Using digital technologies to teach writing and languages
  • Enriching the curriculum with inter-campus teaching

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W. Joseph King, Ph.D.<span style="font-size: 11px;">W. Joseph (Joey) King, executive director, National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education</span>

A serial entrepreneur and educator, Joey King—NITLE’s executive director—brings a diverse range of experiences to bear on the question of how liberal arts institutions can and should integrate inquiry, pedagogy, and technology. He is the chairman of the board of Rice University Press, the first fully digital academic press, and previously served as the executive director of Connexions, a leading open education system, at Rice University. He has been on the founding teams of several successful technology companies (including F5 Networks, NASDAQ:FFIV) and led or advised a wide variety of others. He has conducted research at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute, Hughes Research Laboratories, and GTE Telecommunications Research, and has consulted for Microsoft, Siemens, Interval, Walt Disney Imagineering, and Atari Games. An expert on human-computer interaction, Joey is an alumnus of Southwestern University and the University of Washington. Joey is available to speak on

  • Innovation, entrepreneurship, and creativity in liberal education
  • Open content in liberal education
  • Sustainable non-profit business models
  • Social entrepreneurship
  • Nonverbal behavior in advanced computing and communication systems
  • Applications of high-definition communication systems

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