MLA Committee on Information Technology
For MLA 2024, the MLA’s Committee on Information Technology is organizing two sessions to help generate ideas related to: (1) revising MLA’s “Guidelines” for evaluating digital scholarship; and (2) possibly formulating future professional guidelines for using artificial intelligence.
Session 274: What do we want in a learning platform of the future? Beyond critiquing major information technology (IT) platforms such as learning management…
Session 620: What do we want in a research platform of the future? Instead of just critiquing major information technology (IT) platforms that higher-ed…
Research and teaching are core missions of our higher-ed institutions. Yet when it comes to major information technology (IT) platforms and services—general-purpose document-creation and…
Description: As humanities scholars increasingly turn to digital modes of conducting and disseminating their research, the question of how institutions evaluate digital work for…
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The CIT is sponsoring a session on “Scholarly Making” in its many forms. Follow along on Twitter at #mla19 #s151. Session 151, Friday, 3 January,…
Slides from the 2019 MLA Convention Session. A version of these recommendations has since been published in Profession as “Information Security for Academics: Small Steps…
Last month, in collaboration with Wilfrid Laurier University Press, I completed the first round of open peer review on my prototype scholarly podcast, Secret…
This post (and its partner post on Evaluating Digital Humanities Beyond the Tenure Track Part 1: For Employees) continues a series of blog posts…