Find out the essence of M C Squared project and of the c-books in our new brochure. The M C Squared project is developing the “c-book” (“c” for creative) extending e-book technologies to include diverse dynamic widgets and an authorable data analytics engine.

1. 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
www.mc2-project.eu
Mathematical
Creativity
Squared
c-books:
when reading meshes
with tinkering
for mathematical creativity
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Contact: mc2-project@cti.gr
Project Coordinator:
Prof. Chronis Kynigos
CTI Diophantus and University of Athens

2. 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.
Geogebra
Malt+ Text
Math
Other
Epsilonwriter
Cinderella