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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 [...]

We are pleased to announce that an edited, peer reviewed volume of the ATC21S white papers has now been published by Springer Science+Business Media.  The volume, which is available in both hard copy and electronic form, can be obtained through this Springer webpage.  The white papers, which were commissioned for our project in 2010 and written by academics who are world-renowned [...]

In April 2011, the ATC21S project launched a crowdsourcing challenge hosted by Innocentive, a crowdsourcing pioneer and a popular platform for hosting crowdsourcing challenges.  The term “crowdsourcing” is a portmanteau word combining the terms “crowd” and “outsourcing.”  It refers to the process of outsourcing tasks to a crowd of people, generally through an open call that [...]

The ATC21S team is excited to be working with one of its newest associate countries, Costa Rica.  Costa Rica, with the support of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), joined the ATC21S project in April 2011 as an associate country, and has already made significant progress.  At the September 2011 ATC21S planning meetings in Berlin, Germany, Costa [...]

The topic of national educational policies is an important one to the ATC21S team, and has already been addressed in detail in one of our white papers. Specifically, Linda Darling-Hammond, the co-director of the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE), authored the first ATC21S policy white paper. In this white paper Darling-Hammond [...]