April 7, 1997

1. Please read the paper by Ivan Illich "Learning Webs" (Chapter 6 in his book "Deschooling Society") and summarize on one page or less answers to the following questions:

1.1. argue what we know more today about collaboration (in a world of the Internet, the WWW, e-mail, ....) that what Illich argued for more than 25 years ago (the book was published in 1970)

1.2. think about the models M1, M2 and M3; what type of collaboration within Illich's vision do they support and not support

1.3. say how this essay is relevant / not relevant to your project

2. Visit the site: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~ostwald/symposium and say in a couple of bullets which interesting things (if any) you found there!