Modeling Multiple Common Learning Goals in an ETCplus Educational Project

The ETCplus project tackles the challenges of developing a sequence of learning activities, topics and assessments that improve the learning skills of the modern students. The ETCplus portal connects faculty and students from different institutions to define learning goals and discipline-related skills and collaborate in a distribute environment. The validation of the cooperation process model of the ETCplus project has been performed in an academic environment with a creation of a community of practice that joins students and teachers of two selected academic courses: one in Italy, and the other in the United States. In this paper we describe the ETCplus project model, its design issues and its problems. The collaboration is designed on top of a shared IBM Jazz platform, which in union with Moodle and Eclipse have been used to generate the documentation, the analysis and the monitoring of the experiment.