MLA Committee on Information Technology
The MLA’s Committee on Information Technology (CIT) initiates projects, publications, and other activities relating to the use of computers and other technologies for teaching…
Session 148 – Ethics and Practice of AIs in the Academy As artificial intelligences (AIs) in the form of “large language models” and similar…
Session 404 – Evaluating Digital Scholarship Today: Problems and Solutions Scholarship has broadened and deepened digitally since the MLA last revised its “Guidelines for…
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…
Description: As humanities scholars increasingly turn to digital modes of conducting and disseminating their research, the question of how institutions evaluate digital work for…
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…