About the first quiz:

According to our agreed grading scheme, the first quiz (worth 10%)  is scheduled for the week of Oct. 1. Here are the key parameters:

1.Timing

The quiz will be released on Blackboard (BB) on Thursday Oct. 4 at 9 am, and it will close on Oct. 5 at 9 am.  You are given one hour within the 24 hour window to complete the quiz. In other words, you can start the quiz anytime between 9 am on Thursday to 9 am on Friday. However, once you initiated the quiz on BB, the timer will start and the quiz will close after 60 minutes. So it is important that you find yourself an uninterrupted hour with good internet connection for the period. Use a land-line if you are not sure of the wi-fi you are connected to. If your connection is interrupted during the quiz, you will not be able to complete the process as I don't have control over the setup on BB.

If you do not have reliable access to the internet at home, please use one of the many workstations in the library or in the computing centre.  Do check in advance to ensure reliable access.

If you have a legitimate reason for not being able to take the quiz during this period, please let me know IN ADVANCE.

2. Set up

The quiz will be administered on Blackboard, much like the first survey most of you had completed in the first week. It is extremely important that you be able to access BB on the specified time. For those who missed the survey and who signed into the course late, please ensure that you can access the course via the Portal/Blackboard site. Please contact me if you can see the course on the portal <http://portal.utoronto.ca>.

3. Format

The quiz will consist of 25 questions. Most will be Multiple choices, a few will be either/or (true/false) and a few will be matching type questions (e.g. matching a concept with a statement). A couple of sample MC questions are appended below.

4. Content coverage

The quiz will cover materials from the first three weeks of class. Questions will be drawn from all the online resources (readings, videos, lecture cast) referred to in the weekly pages. So be sure to review all the materials prior to the quiz.

5. Academic integrity

While this course encourages collaboration, the quizzes are designed as checkpoints to ensure that students are advancing through the course materials.  As such, each student is expected to write the quiz by him or herself. If you started the quiz before your friend(s) in the class, please resist the temptation of passing along the questions.  This is an honour system, so please treat it with honour and honesty.

Sample Questions 

Fritz Machlup was among the early scholars to discuss the relationship between:

a)      Knowledge and cultural preservation

b)      Information quality and economic returns

c)       Infrastructure and industrial development

d)      Knowledge production and economic growth

What BEST characterizes the shift from information to network society:

a)      A shift away from collaborative production and towards top-down strategies

b)      A shift away from the use of non-renewable towards renewable resources

c)       A shift away from the production of tangible towards non-tangible resources

d)      A shift way from collective social structures towards more individualist ones

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