Understanding the MLA International Bibliography: A Free Online Course
The MLA has developed an online course to teach students how to use the MLA International Bibliography for college-level research. Each of the five units in the course presents a lesson, followed by progression questions to reinforce the lesson through active engagement with the bibliography, and a quiz. Students will receive a badge upon passing each quiz and a course-completion badge after completing all the lessons and passing all five quizzes.
The course usually takes students ninety minutes or less to complete and requires that they have access to the MLA International Bibliography on the EBSCO platform through their institution’s library. Students can create a free account to take the course and start earning badges.
The MLA now offers six subject area modules to accompany its online course Understanding the MLA International Bibliography. The newest module teaches users how to search the bibliography for topics on cross-cultural communication from linguistic, pedagogical, and discourse study perspectives. Another new module, on literary research, focuses on searching the bibliography for specific literary works, authors, and theoretical approaches or methods of analysis.
Additional modules focus on searching the bibliography for scholarly publications in one of four disciplines: folklore, linguistics, film (including television, video, and other broadcast media), and rhetoric and composition. Students who complete the modules can earn badges in each of these six subject areas. Visit the course site to access the main course and subject area modules.
Interested in other resources for teaching research and information literacy? Visit the Teaching Resources page on The MLA Style Center, where you’ll find lesson plans, assignments, and an instructor’s guide to integrating the online course into class curricula.