M C Squared is a project by:

Partners

Computer Technology Institute & Press “Diophantus” (GR) (Project Coordinator)

Universiteit Utrecht (NL)

London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education, University of London (UK)

Universitat De Barcelona (ES)

Université Claude Bernard - LYON1 (FR)

Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (DE)

Aristod (FR)

Talent Anonymos Etairia Pliroforikis (GR)

Testaluna (IT)

Universität Potsdam (DE)

Third parties

École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (FR) University of Southampton (UK)

Collaborators

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Educational Technology Lab (GR)

The M C Squared project is funded by the European Commission, under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7 / ICT-2013.8.1 Technologies and scientific foundations in the field of creativity).

Contract No.: 610467 Project start: 01 October 2013 Duration: 36 months

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Mathematical Creativity

Squared

c-books: when reading meshes

with tinkering for mathematical creativity

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Project Coordinator:Prof. Chronis KynigosCTI Diophantus and University of Athens

c-books production

The M C Squared project is creating beyond state-of-the-art tools for the collaborative design of digital online educational materials. The focus is on Social Creativity in the design of a new kind of mediation intended to enhance Creativity in Mathematical Thinking; we call it 'the c-book' (c is for creative). The c-book is a digital medium, which extends e-book technologies to a) contain Widget instances from diverse Widgets, b) support collaborative asynchronous on-line design and authoring (the content of a c-book can easily be changed) c) afford configurable Learning Analytics, allowing each learner’s behaviour and learning outcomes to be analyzed, in order to give individualized learning feedback.The c-book author and player is available in six different languages (Greek, English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch). Project c-book productions contain diverse Widget Factories such as Cinderella, E-Slate, Geogebra, Malt+, EpsilonWriter, among others.

Social Creativity

The outcomes of the M C Squared project are the result of the joint work of a network of interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners operating as a socio-technical environment.Social Creativity is supported at two different levels:

Through the design process: four different Communities of Interest (CoIs) in four different countries - including diverse creative profiles (technology developers, creative industries, researchers specialized in creativity in math education, math teachers and students) - fuel the development of the c-books.Through the product itself: authorability and communication features enable users to achieve a collective constructive work.

Innovation

M C Squared brings together an exceptional combination of features in a unique Constructionist Environment affording Creative Mathematical Thinking:

Widget consistency and diversity Authoring of content and feedback.Interoperability: c-book resources allow the inclusion of Widgets from different authoring systems (Widget factories).Original activities and new way to mesh reading with mathematical expressivity: c-books are thought to never reach an end, to be used, re-mixed, expanded and exchanged.Learning analytics functionality provides designers and users with data to evaluate and understand progresses and trends quickly and easily.Multilingual system: c-books are available in six different languages.Collaboration tools: the c-book environment allows designers/teachers to collaboratively design student c-books through chat facility, wiki functionality and threaded forum functionalities.Extensibility: open communication protocol supports the integration of further Widget Factories.

GeogebraMalt+ Text

Math

Other

Epsilonwriter

Cinderella