Projects at Gottesman Libraries

Featured Projects

Some of our most ambitious ventures to date.

PocketKnowledge

The Teachers College archives contain rare and original items, many of which can be found only at Teachers College. Discover research materials, primary sources, dissertations, and media from some of the most influential figures in education, psychology, and health in our digital archives platform, PocketKnowledge.

PocketKnowledge makes it easy for researchers and professionals at TC to organize, preserve, and disseminate materials to audiences near and far. If you are current faculty, st...

Vialogues

Vialogues leverages videos for learning by adding group interaction as part of the viewing experience. Individuals watching a specific video can create vialogues, which are focused discussion environments that include comments time-coded to different parts of the video. In learning environments, teachers can post comments to scaffold the video content or to perform formative assessment of student understanding. They can also elicit questions about the video from students and engage in conversation asynchronously. As a result, videos can be used more effe...

Collaborations

Opportunities to create unique learning experiences, together.

EdLab Seminar Series

The EdLab Seminar is an ongoing forum for dialog about everything that is potentially of interest to the lab. Members of EdLab use this foru...

Collaboration Opportunities at EdLab

EdLab Seminars

EdLab Seminars bring speakers from around the corner and around the world to the Gottesman Libraries in a c...

Gottesman Libraries Art Commission

The Gottesman Libraries offers funding, exhibition space, and support to artists who explore the intersections between education, technology...

EdLab Scholars Program

The purpose of the EdLab Scholars Program is to offer individuals with advanced experience in the field of education (or related fields) the...

ResearchBroker

ResearchBroker aims to connect researchers at Teachers College, Columbia University with the companies and organizations who are looking ...

Digital Publishing

Content created and adapted to fit a digital world.

Launching E-Journals

EdLab's Publishing Team develops and supports a handful of systems for online publishing. From home-grow systems to third-party, open source...

After Ed TV

In July 2007, EdLab, in partnership with the Gottesman Libraries at Teachers College, launched a video channel on the web.

Pressible

Pressible was a library publishing project that supported scholarly communication from 2010 to 2019. As a forked and customized Wo...

Trends in Ed (TIE)

EdLab has created several blog publications as part of its experiments in online publishing. Trends in Ed (TIE) is a blog appearing both on ...

Your Permanent Record (YPR)

Your Permanent Record? (YPR?) is an experimental, teacher-support podcast recorded at the EdLab. YPR? aims to create a reflective and suppor...

EdLab Review

EdLab Review provides online reviews of new products in the field of education. The reviews appear on

EdLab Research Digest

The EdLab Research Digest reports on new research articles in education and technology with special relevance to the major areas of the EdLa...

Automated Author Feedback Tool (AAFT)

The Automated Author Feedback Tool (AAFT) provides real-time machine generated feedback to authors submitting papers to the Teachers College...

Teachers College Record Redesign

This project developed a new design for the Teachers College Record online publishing site. The new design was partially implemented as par...

Conflict Resolution Videos

This project produced a series of four short videos introducing Professor Peter Coleman and his approach to conflict resolution in diverse s...

New Learning Times Book Series

New Learning Times: The Transformation of Education in the Information Age> Series Editors: Gary Natriello (gjn6@columbia.edu) an...

Library Initiatives

Bold experiments fuse core offerings with emerging technology.

Collaboration Support System

The Collaboration Support System (CSS) is a web application designed to foster enhanced collaborative experiences among the students and fac...

Media Design Center at the Gottesman Libraries

EdLab founded and supports a Media Design Center (MDC) that serves as a resource for the creation of multimedia products for faculty, studen...

Multimedia Exhibitions at the Gottesman Libraries

With the goal of creating a unique exhibition program, EdLab established new exhibition space at Teachers College. EdLab invites artists, ed...

Networked Education Database

EdLab pioneered the first open, automated, and ongoing classroom-level education data collection project in the country. The Networked Educa...

Teachers College Record

Average time to publication in academic journals is woefully slow. Because of this, research that aims to impact policy is often published t...

New Learning Times

The New Learning Times (NLT) was a library publishing project that highlighted new ideas f...

Launch Pad

The Launch Pad project will encompass a set of activities designed to address the challenge of launching new educational products, services,...

Library Knowledge Base

The library knowledge base project created an online database of questions and answers about library policies and procedures. The

New York State School Finance Reform Archive

The Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE) v. State of New York case is the defining legal action for contemporary school finance policy in New Yo...

TC Route Finder

The TC Route Finder project designed and developed a complete geographic directory of the Teachers College campus and a system for routin...

DocDel Plus

The DocDel Plus project added new functionality to the platform used to deliver e-reserves and other documents for patrons of the Gottesman ...

PocketKnowledge Viewer

The PocketKnowledge Viewer project designed and developed an image v...

Journal Article Recommendation System (JARS)

The Journal Article Recommendation System (JARS) identifies related journal content relevant to the query made by a user and provides a link...

The Voice

The Voice is a video series that features authors of articles in the Teachers College Record discussing their work. It appears on a weekly ...

Pundit - Intelligent Recommender of Courses

Pundit is a course recommendation and search tool. The alpha prototype employs a novel combination of data retrieval and data mining approac...

Survey Sidekick

Survey Sidekick is an online survey creation tool that provides just-in-time instruction in good survey research practices. The tool is des...

mPress

The mPress project will create a publishing application integrated within the mSchool framework by building on the work of the

New Learning Spaces

Alternative environments defy expectations of education.

Edit Jam

Edit Jam is a confluence of imaginative minds at the EdLab Design Center. We use both analog and digital tools — such as computers, the turn...

The Learning Opportunities Laboratory

This project will create a new course that will operate as a laboratory for the design and development of infrastructures to support learnin...

Your Summer Learning Contest

Your Summer Learning Contest (2008) aims to promote thinking about learning. We are inviting 13 to 22 year-olds to create videos that demons...

NY2NO Documentary

The New York to New Orleans Project: Film Shorts and Feature-length Documentary Overview “I've never felt like I was...

Formerly Fluensee

The project formerly known as Fluency created an iPhone application that takes photos of signs with text and provides translations in the de...

Math Maze

Math Maze is an adaptive math game for young children developed for the iPhone. Growing out of a revie...

The Media Show

The Media Show is a web video series designed to teach media literacy, video production, and viral media development. The show has been use...

Teachers College Health Conceptual Framework

At the request of the Dean of Teachers College, the EdLab conducted research on the future of programs in health education and drafted a con...

TC101

At the request of the President and the Provost of Teachers College the EdLab designed and developed the TC101 project to provide online mat...

CEOI/TCI Transition

At the request of the President and Provost of Teachers College the EdLab undertook a complete review of the operations of the Center for Ed...

School Redesign

School Redesign is a video series focusing on generating ideas for the redesign of classrooms and schools. Two seasons of shows were produc...

Adaptive Learning Opportunities

The Adaptive Learning Opportunities Project is conducted a comprehensive examination of adaptive tools and practices for teaching and learni...

The Strage Prize Competition

At the request of the Vice President for Development and External Affairs of Teachers College, EdLab designed and manages the Strage Prize C...

Online Learning

Foundational projects that support self-directed, informal learning.

Sociology of Online Learning

This Teachers College course consists of seven class sessions, and will be an exploration of the social dimensions of online learning. Stude...

Rhizr (formerly mSCHOOL)

Rhizr is a collection of learning opportunities linked together to support serendipitous discovery. It borrows from the metaphor of a r...

Edfluences

Edfluences is a social learning platform that aims to merge effective content and instructional delivery with social interactions, which are...

Ednode

Ednode is an intelligent recommendation and search tool that enables users of online communities to efficien...

Let Freedom Swing

In anticipation of Barack Obama's inauguration in January 2009, Jazz at Lincoln Center organized a series of concerts at the Kennedy Cent...

Understanding Fiscal Responsibility

With concern growing about the national debt, educators are being called upon to include it as a curriculum topic.

Teaching the Levees

Teachers College created a curriculum to support teachers using the case of Hurricane Katrina as touchstone for lessons about democratic ...

HBO Watch It and Learn

EdLab partnered with HBO and Time Warner to create a program called “Watch it and Learn!” which provided access to films and teaching materi...

Disaster Preparedness

Preparing to respond to disasters has become a necessity in modern societies. The EdLab is working with the

Discussion Forum Analyzer Tool

EdLab designed and developed the Discussion Forum Analyzer Tool (DFAT) for the Moodle Learning System. By mining user-submitted content and...

TC Assets Courses

EdLab has developed a series of online courses that organize a variety of content assets created at Teachers College to provide foundational...

Supporting Early Career Teachers through Online Resources (SECTtOR)

At the request of the Provost and President of Teachers College, EdLab produced a design event to mobilize key individuals at Teachers Colle...

Master Class/Young Arts

There is a growing interest in supporting schools to provide students with an education in the arts. EdLab is collaborating with faculty ...

Blackboard

The Gottesman Library adopted the Blackboard Learning Management System to support experimentation and innovation in online learning at T...

Research

Ongoing analyses within our areas of expertise.

Arthur Levine on the Future of Ed Schools

AERA Conference Blog (2006)

Online Publishing Mini-Course

Joe Krajcik on Bringing Intellect and Innovation into the K-12 Science Classroom

Library Design Event with Matt Taylor

The Next Stage of the Library Renovation

Edward Bakst on Encouraging Creativity and Innovation

Ulises Mejías on Social Agency in a Digital World

Tony Cline on Trends in Technology and Society

Barbara Tversky on Graphics and Diagrams

Arthur Levine Tribute Video

Edmund W. Gordon Documentary

Henry Levin Discussion on Educational Entrepreneurism

PocketKnowledge Claymation Commercial

What is an Edit Jam? (Book)

Design Processes Presentation by Pravin Sathe and Erin Murphy

Telling Stories with Data: Presentation by Pravin Sathe

Gary Natriello on EdLab's Foundational Projects

Learning Personalization and Discovery

Working Papers

Preliminary explorations into complex fields of study.

Psychology Type and Asynchronous Written Dialogue in Adult Learning

Modest Changes, Revolutionary Possibilities: Distance Learning and the Future of Education

Beyond Courses: The Search for New Forms of Education Online

Data Sharing: A Workshop on Understanding and Promoting Knowledge Accumulation in Education

An Online Journal as a Virtual Learning Environment

The Middle Way: The Very Low Cost Model for Scholarly Publishing

Strong Ties, Weak Ties: Relational Dimensions of Learning Settings

Data Mining Journals and Books: Using the Science of Networks to Uncover the Structure of the Educational Research Community

Bridging the Second Digital Divide: What Can Sociologists of Education Contribute?

Rethinking the Organization and Effects of Schooling: The Post-Industrial Conundrum

Using eLearning Systems to Scale-Up Educational Research

Using Social Network Analysis to Highlight an Emerging Online Community of Practice

Learning in Libraries

Second Look: A Research Platform for Second Life

Does Web 2.0 Matter? Investigating How Learning Environment Design Affects User Community Engagement

Teaching the Levees: Creating an Online Resource to Facilitate Democratic Discourse and Civic Engagement

Evaluating User-Generated Educational Multimedia in Web 2.0 Environments: The Case of TeacherTube

Event Material

Supporting readings and resources from past events.

Teaching & Learning Network

PocketKnowledge: Design and Implementation of FAQs and Context-Specific Help

PocketKnowledge: Creating Historical and Practical Pockets

Collaboration Support System: Fall 2005 Semester Report

Seminar on the Future of Libraries: Progress Report

NED Presentation