Platforms for Delivery of Collaborative Tasks

Abstract

Prior to the inception of the ATC21STM project, no single platform existed for the implementation of human-to-human internet interactive tasks. (The acronym ATC21STM has been globally trademarked. For purposes of simplicity the acronym is presented throughout the chapter as ATC21S.) Given the global goals of the project, the assessment tasks and the professional development materials for administration and teaching interventions were constructed on several platforms. The characteristics and capacities, and the advantages and disadvantages, of these platforms are described in this chapter. The mathematics-based collaborative tasks were developed on a Hong Kong-based platform and migrated to t..