Ethics and Practice of AIs in the Academy (Session 148 At MLA 2024)
bySession 148 – Ethics and Practice of AIs in the Academy As artificial intelligences (AIs) in the form of “large language models” and similar…
Evaluating Digital Scholarship Today: Problems and Solutions (Session 404 At MLA 2024)
bySession 404 – Evaluating Digital Scholarship Today: Problems and Solutions Scholarship has broadened and deepened digitally since the MLA last revised its “Guidelines for…
CFP: MLA 2024 Call For Panelists From The Committee On Information Technology
byFor 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.
What Do We Want in a Learning Platform of the Future? (Session 274 At MLA 2023)
bySession 274: What do we want in a learning platform of the future? Beyond critiquing major information technology (IT) platforms such as learning management…
What Do We Want in a Research Platform of the Future? (Session 620 at MLA 2023)
bySession 620: What do we want in a research platform of the future? Instead of just critiquing major information technology (IT) platforms that higher-ed…
CFP: MLA 2023 Call for Panelists from the Committee on Information Technology
byResearch 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…
MLA 2020 Session: Roundtable on “Digital Scholarship in Tenure and Promotion.”
byDescription: As humanities scholars increasingly turn to digital modes of conducting and disseminating their research, the question of how institutions evaluate digital work for…
MLA 2020 Session: Climate Change, Technology and Academic Responsibility
byUniversities have been aggressive in their efforts to go green, to develop eco-conscious practices, and more importantly, to capitalize on the global thrust for…
MLA 2019: Scholarly Making: Pedagogy, Printing, Publics
byThe CIT is sponsoring a session on “Scholarly Making” in its many forms. Follow along on Twitter at #mla19 #s151. Session 151, Friday, 3 January,…
MLA 2019: Commonsense Information Security for Academics
by 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…