Midterm Exam

The midterm has two questions; each should be answered with a minimum of 1000 words. The answers should be submitted as Word or RTF documents to the midterm dropbox, by noon on Thursday, April 19th. I will have the graded exams back to you by mid-afternoon on Friday, April 20th (the withdrawal date for the class).

Question 1: You've just been hired as a consultant to the IT department to improve the delivery of information for distance learning classes. What problems with the current groupware implementations (e.g. myCourses, RIT email, the class weblog, etc) have you identified? What solutions would you propose, either as enhancements or changes to current tools, or as replacements? How would your suggested changes address the problems you identified? What new problems could potentially be introduced by your changes?

Question 2: In the Stevens et al reading for Week 3, the authors described their attempts to "protoype the workspace of the future." Did you find their vision compelling? Why or why not? What would your ideal collaborative workspace of the future look like?