MLA evaluation of digital work for tenure and promotion wiki

Geoffrey Rockwell is hosting on philosophi.ca the initial iteration of a wikiform guide to The Evaluation of Digital Work, a task undertaken by the MLA Committee on Information Technology.

The Evaluation of Digital Work

This area is for an ongoing project by members of the MLA Committee on Information Technology. We are experimenting with a wiki as a way of developing materials to assist in the evaluation of digital work for tenure and promotion.

Current content (10 July 2009) includes:

Types of Digital Work - A list of types of academic digital work with thoughts as to how they might be presented for evaluation and how they might then be evaluated.

Short Guide to Evaluation of Digital Work - A list of questions evaluators can ask about digital work being assessed for tenure and promotion.

Stories - A collection of fictional and real cases with suggestions as to how these cases might be prepared and evaluated.

Documenting a New Media Case - A section for candidates on documents to gather and language to use to prepare your case. Unifinished

Frequently Asked Questions about job seeking in digital fields. Unfinished

Links and Bibliography about the evaluation of digital work. Unfinished

To Do is a list of things to do to improve this

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