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Singapore’s Education Minister Heng Swee Keat recently visited the US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in Washington, DC.  During the visit a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed, signaling both countries’ intentions to promote collaboration in education with one another. In explaining the benefit of such collaboration, Minister Heng Swee Keat cited the ATC21S project [...]

In January 2012 the ATC21S team released a new video showcasing some of the collaborative problem solving (CPS) tasks commissioned for the project.  Now a second video on the ATC21S collaborative problem solving tasks has been released.
This second video, which runs about 8 minutes, provides additional details and information on the ATC21S collaborative problem solving tasks. [...]

The ATC21S team is currently running its trials in the United States, under the leadership of Kathy Comfort, US National Project Manager (NPM) and Project Director at WestEd.
The US trials have generated considerable interest among teachers and administrators across the country from the start.  During our short recruitment phase we received more than 80 applications [...]

Earlier this month at the 2012 Education World Forum, the ATC21S team released a new video showcasing some of the collaborative problem solving (CPS) tasks commissioned for the project.  Besides giving brief explanations of the tasks, the video also shows them being used in a participating school in Australia. We also preview the ways in [...]

The following ATC21S news update is adapted from an article by Catriona May, Senior Media & Communications Specialist at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education.
Melbourne-based digital product developer Brendan Owen is the winner of the ATC21S crowdsourcing challenge, hosted by Innocentive.  Mr Owen’s challenge was to produce a hosting platform for a range of online learning activities that assess [...]

In November 2011 Finland, the Netherlands, Australia, and Costa Rica all piloted the collaborative problem solving tasks in select participating schools.  The ATC21S team appreciates the innovative and proactive strategies that our National Project Mangers, as well as participating teachers and students, have used to make these pilots run smoothly and effectively.  These strategies include everything from [...]

In November 2011 Finland, the Netherlands, and Costa Rica all piloted the collaborative problem solving tasks in select participating schools. The pilots have provided us with rich information and feedback on — among other things — technology and infrastructure.
For example, since all of the ATC21S tasks are currently being run from an Australian-based server, we [...]