Dr. Bryan Alexander, fellow at the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education and a respected thinker on the future of technology, will deliver the third annual UALR Donaghey Scholars Program Speakers Series lecture at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29, in the auditorium at the Engineering and Information Technology (EIT) Building.

The lecture is co-sponsored by UALR Alumni Association and the Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology (EIT).

A reception and book signing at the Bailey Alumni Center, hosted by the Donaghey Scholars Alumni Society, will follow the lecture, “Storytelling, Gaming, and the WorldBoard: The New Digital World.” RSVP for both events at ualr.edu/alumni.

Alexander is author of “The New Digital Storytelling: Creating Narratives with New Media,” published in April 2011 by Praeger.

He is active online, combining research with communication across multiple venues. He runs the NITLE futures market, a crowd-sourced prediction game. He contributes to Techne, NITLE’s blog, and was lead author for eight years for its predecessor, Liberal Education Today. He also tweets steadily under the username @BryanAlexander.

In a recent video interview, Alexander discussed, among many other issues, how information technology is changing the higher education world and how the growing use of mobile devices are “forking the web,” reducing instead of expanding access to web content.

Born in New York City, Alexander earned his Ph.D. in English from the University of Michigan in 1997, completing a dissertation on Romantic-era Gothic literature. He taught English literature, writing, information literacy, and information technology studies at Centenary College of Louisiana from 1997 through 2002.

He was a 2004 fellow of the Frye Leadership Institute. Alexander lives on a Vermont homestead with his family, where they raise animals and crops, combining broadband with a low-tech lifestyle.

For more information, contact the Donaghey Scholars office at 501-683-7752 or dsp@ualr.edu.