Mathematics for the Citizen, m@t.abel and MOOCs: From Paper to Online Environments for Mathematics Teachers’ Professional Development

In this chapter, we show the evolution of resources devoted to the professional development of mathematics teachers in Italy, who have migrated from paper to the online environment, up to MOOCs. Based on the theoretical framework of Meta-Didactical Transposition, we begin by reviewing the main changes in the official and implemented Italian curriculum of mathematics. Two of the authors (F. Arzarello and O. Robutti) took a relevant part in these events. On the basis of these experiences, together with the third author (E. Taranto), they contributed to the realization of the Math MOOC UniTo project for online professional development for mathematics teachers, aimed at increasing their professional competencies and improving their classroom practices. We will base the discussion showing examples of teachers’ online interactions, and sharing the guidelines we have followed to set the module design of the MOOCs. We will so able to share with the research community the design and monitoring practices that our experience has and is continuing to work on.