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52-577: ISKME's work is divided into divided into five main areas, which include open education research, field-building and leadership development, platform and tools, library and information sciences, and an innovation and design lab. ISKME was established in 2002 by Lisa Petrides, formerly a professor in Teachers College at Columbia University . ISKME's initial research focused on the capacity of college faculty and administrators to use educational data to inform decision-making as well as knowledge management in

104-790: A consortium that includes UNESCO , the International Council for Open and Distance Education , the European Foundation for Quality in e-Learning , and several European universities. In 2011 ISKME announced a matching grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to support the Big Ideas in Beta program, focused on incubating innovation in education. In 2017, the American Association of School Librarians recognized ISKME's OER Commons as one of

156-542: A digital repository of open teaching and learning resources. That same year, Petrides was one of 27 open education leaders invited to an international gathering in Cape Town, South Africa, which produced the 2007 Cape Town Open Education Declaration. This declaration laid the groundwork for other international open educational resources policy agreements, including the Recommendation on Open Educational Resources adopted, with

208-608: A grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation , OER Commons opened as a digital library and intermediary for openly licensed and freely available content. By aggregating resources and standardizing metadata from OER content providers, the site supports knowledge sharing and access to teaching and learning materials, strategies, and curricula online. Individual educators submit their own contributions which are curated. Materials are reviewed for quality and alignment to standards and shared primarily using Creative Commons licenses. In

260-489: A grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation , Petrides and ISKME created OER Commons as a digital library for open content. That same year, Petrides was one of 27 open education figures invited to Cape Town, South Africa, which produced the Cape Town Open Education Declaration , a significant international statement on open access , open education and open educational resources . Petrides

312-665: A group of 40 leaders from K-12 schools, colleges, universities, and businesses at the Knowledge Management in Education summit to discuss improving the use of data and the sharing of information in education. In 2003, ISKME published a monograph on this topic called Knowledge Management in Education: Defining the Landscape . Petrides has helped develop tools and strategies in the field of open educational practice. In 2007, with

364-662: A knowledge base for content providers and platform developers, particularly related to accessibility and inclusive design. Metadata, data that describes a resource, and in the case of open educational resources, includes descriptors such as title, author, material type, and material license. Metadata standards provide a template for OER providers to share their resources with other providers. OER Commons receives feeds of OER in Dublin Core (DC), IEEE 's Learning Object Metadata (LOM), and RSS . OER Commons provide targets to other providers to harvest content in these formats. Partnered with

416-855: A microsite, OER is presented in the context of customized taxonomies to categorize and describe relevant OER. In 2011, ISKME announced the Green Micro-site with Greek partner Agro-Know. It is an aggregation of sustainability-related learning resources and features interdisciplinary lesson plans such as STEAM ( Science Technology Engineering Art and Math ) resources. The OER Commons infrastructure facilitates evaluation of content and alignment to quality rubrics and standards. Starting in 2011, OER Commons provides an embedded Common Core State Standards alignment tool and Achieve OER Rubric to support state-level curriculum committees as well as individual instructors to review content for quality and alignment and to collaboratively address gaps in content collections. ISKME

468-443: A new kind of education for those left most in need by society or circumstance. The college continues its collaborative research with urban and suburban school systems that strengthen teaching in such fundamental areas as reading, writing, science, mathematics, and the arts; prepares leaders to develop and administer psychological and health care programs in schools, businesses, hospitals and community agencies; and advances technology for

520-616: A range of open education services. ISKME's partnerships include supporting Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Undersecretary of Education Martha Kanter in launching the 2013 Open Book Project in the Middle East. ISKME also established OER partnerships in K-12 and higher education with OpenStax , NAACP , the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO) , UNESCO on their ICT Competency Framework for Teachers, and

572-815: A second phase, beginning in 2009, ISKME developed an initiative for teacher professional development program to support educators in finding and using OER supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Ford Foundation . As part of its teacher training program, ISKME trained educators from over 25 countries to use OER through workshops and summer academies, including ISKME's Teachers as Makers Academies . ISKME's OER research revealed how teachers’ exposure to OER, tools and professional development cultivates collaboration among teachers, as well as new conversations and reflection about teaching practices and roles. Petrides et al., 2011 Furthermore, research conducted on

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624-593: A student senate, headed by the Senate president, followed by the vice-president, parliamentarian, communications officer, and treasurer. Two senators, a master's candidate, and a PhD candidate are elected each year to represent each academic department at Teachers College to advocate on behalf of current students and alumni. The TC Senate meets bi-weekly to determine what issues need to be investigated. For 2024, U.S. News & World Report ranked Teachers College, Columbia University #1 among all graduate schools of education in

676-652: A successor to an earlier publication by the Program in Mathematics and Education at Teachers College. Following is a selct list of notable alumni. 40°48′36″N 73°57′40″W  /  40.8101°N 73.96107°W  / 40.8101; -73.96107 OER Commons OER Commons (OER for open educational resources ) is a freely accessible online library that allows teachers and others to search and discover open educational resources (OER) and other freely available instructional materials. OER Commons, created by

728-523: Is UNESCO OER Dynamic Coalition Chair for the Working Group on Sustainability. Petrides has a BS from University of California, Berkeley, an MBA from Sonoma State University, and a Ph.D. in education from Stanford University. Petrides is a former professor in the Department of Organization and Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University . In 2002, Petrides founded ISKME. In 2002, Petrides organized

780-681: Is accessible using a broad range of assistive technology devices such as screen readers. To support user contributions, in 2010 ISKME released the OER-Connector browser plug-in on GitHub that enables users to add resources to OER Commons. To support interoperability, OER Commons is an experimental node in the Learning Registry, a joint US Department of Education and US Department of Defense initiative to support educational content and platform interoperability. The OER Commons contains custom curated resource collections, or microsites. Within

832-706: Is on the advisory group for UNESCO's OER Dynamic Coalition, supporting the implementation of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Educational Resources adopted by UNESCO's General Conference at its 40th session in 2019. In November, 2020, Petrides was elected to the San Mateo County Community College District Board of Trustees, an independent, policy-making body charged by California Education Code with responsibility for establishing academic standards, approving courses of instruction and educational programs, and determining and controlling

884-624: The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education , was developed to serve curriculum experts and educators in discovering open educational resources (OER) and collaborating around the use, evaluation, and improvement of those materials. Resources on the site can be searched and filtered using an expanded set of descriptive data, including conditions of use. Teachers, students, and others enrich this " metadata " when they tag, rate, and review materials, and share what works for them. In 2007, with

936-614: The Juilliard School ), Lee Huan (former Premier of the Republic of China ), Shirley Chisholm (first black woman elected to the United States Congress ), Hafizullah Amin (former leader of Afghanistan), Hamden L. Forkner (founder of Future Business Leaders of America ), and E. Gordon Gee (has held more university presidencies than any other American including Brown University and Vanderbilt University ). Teachers College

988-727: The Monterey Institute of Technology , Connexions , Teachers Domain, Free High School Science Texts , Siyavula in South Africa and Training Commons in India. In 2005, ISKME engaged in research partnerships with schools of education and training programs for school principals, including work with the San Francisco School Alliance and the University of California's Principal Leadership Institute. In 2007, ISKME launched OER Commons ,

1040-473: The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). In 2018, ISKME was selected to partner with the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology (OET) on its #GoOpen initiative. OET has since sunsetted its federal leadership of the #GoOpen initiative and passed the baton to ISKME to foster ongoing national engagement in K-12 open education. San Francisco public television station KQED and Roadtrip Nation have been co-sponsors of

1092-761: The Big Ideas Fest. ISKME was named an Education Laureate by the San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation in 2007 for OER Commons. In December 2010, ISKME was named a finalist in the Qatar Foundation World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Awards for its OER Commons teacher professional development programs. In 2011, ISKME won the Award for Bodies which Influence Policy from the Open Educational Quality Initiative (OPAL),

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1144-703: The Department of Education of Columbia University since 1898. It is the oldest and largest graduate school of education in the United States. Teachers College alumni and faculty have held prominent positions in academia, government, music, non-profit, healthcare, and social science research. Overall, Teachers College has over 90,000 alumni in more than 30 countries. Notable alumni and former faculty include John Dewey , Art Garfunkel , Dr. Ruth Westheimer , Carl Rogers , Margaret Mead , Bill Campbell , Georgia O'Keeffe , Edward Thorndike , Rollo May , Donna Shalala , Albert Ellis , William Schuman (former president of

1196-652: The Dodge Fitness Center. During COVID-19, the Ivy League allowed Columbia fourth-year senior student-athletes, who lost playing time due to pandemic-related cancellations in their final year of eligibility, to continue playing their varsity sport for the 2021–22 season if they were accepted to and enrolled at Teachers College. The Columbia University Senate includes faculty and student representatives from Teachers College who serve two-year terms; all senators are accorded full voting privileges regarding matters impacting

1248-648: The Inclusive Design Research Centre since 2010 to incorporate FLOE components into the OER Commons platform, ISKME's efforts combine OER discovery and enhancement tools and processes with FLOE's personalized network-delivered accessibility standards and tools. In 2012, ISKME released Open Author, an authoring and remixing environment to support the creation and adaption of multi-media accessible OER and enable collaborative workflows of content reviewers and creators. The authoring environment produces OER that

1300-632: The KEA was rebranded to the Industrial Education Association (IEA), in the spirit of widening its mission to boys and parents. Three years later, it moved to the former Union Theological Seminary building on University Place , as well as founded a coeducational private school called the Horace Mann School . In 1887, William Vanderbilt Jr. offered a substantial financial sum to the IEA. With

1352-523: The Organizational Psychology M.A. program to become tactical officers (TAC) at West Point. The college also houses programs in anthropology . It was foundational in the development of the field of anthropology and education. By the 1930s, Teachers College had begun to offer courses in anthropology as part of the foundations of education. By 1948 Margaret Mead started what would be a long association with Teachers College where she taught until

1404-509: The United States. In 2008, 2002, 1998, 1997, and 1996 Teachers College, Columbia University was also ranked #1 in the category of graduate schools of education in the United States by U.S. News. Teachers College serves as Columbia University's graduate school of education and psychology, and while Teachers College holds its own corporate status, an independent administrative structure, board of trustees and endowment, Teachers College graduates are awarded Columbia University degrees according to

1456-770: The alumni medal and membership to the Columbia University Club of New York . While Teachers College faculty appointments are approved by Teachers College's board of trustees at the discretion of the president of Columbia University, "Columbia University [has] no responsibility for salaries, tenure, or retirement allowances" of officers of Teachers College. Teachers College shares academic and institutional resources with greater Columbia University including courses of instruction (Teachers College students may take courses at any other Columbia University graduate school and vice versa.), libraries, health service systems, research centers, classrooms, special event facilities and

1508-743: The benefits of OER with colleagues and supporting the knowledge sharing, collaboration, and use of OER in online OER communities (ISKME, 2008; Petrides & Jimes, 2010; Petrides et al., 2011 ). ISKME's OER research also explored OER as a vehicle for disseminating adaptable curricula that support learner-centric approaches to pedagogy. ISKME's evaluation of the Community College Open Textbook Project revealed that study habits improved when learners were able to interact with open course material, and that students’ use of open textbooks cultivated new, self-directed learning behaviors (Petrides et al., 2011 ). Finally, ISKME's research revealed

1560-681: The broadening mission of education beyond the original philanthropic intent set forth by Dodge, the IEA changed its name to the New York School for the Training of Teachers, and received its temporary charter from the New York State Board of Regents . By October 1890, the school's trustees were looking for a new campus, as the University Place campus was considered too small. After discussion with Columbia University president Seth Low ,

1612-524: The campus of the college were designed by William Appleton Potter . The first structure in the original complex, Main Hall, was completed in late 1894; the last, Milbank Memorial Hall, was finished three years later. The curriculum combined a humanitarian concern to help others with a scientific approach to human development. The college was affiliated with Columbia University in 1898 as the university's Graduate School of Education. A new building for Horace Mann

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1664-557: The classroom, developing new teaching software and keeping teachers abreast of new developments. Teachers College also houses a wide range of applied psychology degrees, including one of the nation's leading programs in organizational psychology. Every year captains from the United States Military Academy at West Point are selected for the Eisenhower Leader Development Program (ELDP) and complete

1716-468: The college continuously since 1900. In 1997 a group of doctoral students from Teachers College established the journal Current Issues in Comparative Education (CICE), a leading open-access online academic journal . Teachers College Press , founded in 1904, is the national and international book publishing arm of Teachers College and is dedicated to deepening the understanding and improving

1768-475: The college's name, less than one-third of students are preparing to become teachers. Graduates pursue careers, for example, in the social sciences, health and health promotion, educational policy, technology, international and comparative education, as well as educational leadership. According to former Teachers College president Susan Fuhrman , the school provides solutions to the difficult problems of urban education, reaffirming its original mission in providing

1820-429: The conditions under which children learn most effectively. As a result, the college's program from the start included such fundamental subjects as educational psychology and educational sociology . The founders also insisted that education must be combined with clear ideas about ethics and the nature of a good society; consequently, programs were developed in the history of education and in comparative education . As

1872-539: The early 1970s. In 1953 Solon Kimball joined the faculty. In 1954 nine professors (including Mead and Solon Kimball) came together to discuss the topic. In the 1960s, these people formed the Council on Anthropology and Education within the American Anthropological Association , and it is still considered as the leading organization in the field. The student experience at Teachers College is governed by

1924-641: The entire University. The president of Teachers College is a dean in the university's governance structure. The college has three residence halls for single students. They are 517 West 121st, Grant Hall, and Whittier Hall. The college has three residence halls for family housing. They are Bancroft Hall, Grant Hall, and Sarasota Hall. One bedroom apartments are available for childless students and students who have one child. Two and three-bedroom apartments are available for students who have more than one child. Lowell Hall and Seth Low Hall have faculty housing units. The Teachers College Record has been published by

1976-448: The impact of teachers’ participation in ISKME's own OER training network revealed that engagement with OER reduced teacher isolation (Petrides & Jimes, 2010 ), as well as expanded the role of teachers in becoming more active innovators as they shared, collaborated and learned from one another (Petrides et al., 2011 ). This work also revealed the role that OER teacher champions play in sharing

2028-607: The nation's best websites for teaching and learning. Lisa Petrides is the CEO and founder of the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME). She created ISKME's OER Commons , a digital public library of open educational resources and a platform for collaboration. She holds an elected position as President of the board of trustees for the San Mateo County Community College District . She

2080-563: The number of school children increased during the twentieth century, the problems of managing the schools became ever more complex. The college took on the challenge and instituted programs of study in areas of administration , economics, and politics. Other programs developed in such emerging fields as clinical and counseling psychology , organizational psychology , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , curriculum development , instructional technology , media studies , and school health care. Teachers College, Columbia University,

2132-577: The operating and capital budgets of the District. In December 2022, Petrides was elected as President of the Board. Teachers College, Columbia University Teachers College, Columbia University ( TC ) is the graduate school of education under Columbia University , a private research university in New York City . Founded in 1887, Teachers College has served as one of the official Faculties and

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2184-443: The philanthropic sector. In 2002, ISKME conducted a study for grantmakers in education on the sharing of data and information among foundations. In 2003, ISKME published a monograph on knowledge management in education. In 2004, with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation , ISKME expanded to include research and training in the development of open educational resources, conducted in partnership with organizations including

2236-578: The practice of education. Teachers College also publishes The Hechinger Report, a non-profit, non-partisan education news outlet focused on inequality and innovation in education that launched in May 2010. The Journal of Mathematics Education at Teachers College (JMETC with ISSN   2156-1397 , 2156-1400 ) is affiliated with the Teachers College Program in Mathematics Education. It is

2288-537: The role that collaboration plays in supporting the creation of open educational resources. Specifically, ISKME's study of authors who created content within the open repository Connexions revealed how as content creation group size increased beyond one author, the probability that users stayed with Connexions (and continued to create content) increased with it (Petrides et al., 2008). ISKME's technology platform, tools, and metadata enhancement in its work with OER Commons are designed to support an open platform that serves as

2340-664: The statutes of Columbia University, [1] Although the college houses PhD programs, these degrees are conferred by Columbia University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in a manner analogous to the PhD programs of the university's other professional schools. Teachers College's graduating class participates in the Columbia University Commencement ceremony. TC graduates are Columbia University alumni, may attend Columbia Alumni Association events, retain their @columbia.edu email for life, and are eligible for nomination of

2392-424: The support of Dodge, Vanderbilt appointed Nicholas Murray Butler , the future longest-serving president of Columbia University and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, as new president of the IEA. The IEA decided to provide schooling for the teachers of the poor children of New York City. Thus, in 1887–1888, it employed six instructors and enrolled 36 juniors in its inaugural class as well as 86 special students. To reflect

2444-634: The support of ISKME, by UNESCO's General Conference at its 40th session in 2019. In 2009, ISKME hosted its inaugural Big Ideas Fest, held in Half Moon Bay, California. In 2014, OER Commons was rebranded as a curated, public digital library, and ISKME developed one of its first microsites when it began managing the National Science Digital Library. ISKME also developed hubs, customizable, branded resource centers on OER Commons. ISKME currently supports states, nations, and other entities through

2496-526: The trustees settled on a site in Morningside Heights , near where Columbia's campus was being built. In 1892, the name of the New York School for the Training of Teachers was again changed to Teachers College. The next year, Teachers College and Columbia University were affiliated with each other, and the trustees acquired land for the new college campus in Morningside Heights. The buildings for

2548-626: Was also associated with philosopher and public intellectual John Dewey , who served as president of the American Psychological Association and the American Philosophical Association, and was a professor at Teachers College from 1904 until his retirement in 1930. The school offers Master of Arts (M.A.), Master of Education (Ed.M.), Master of Science (M.S.), Doctor of Education (Ed.D.), and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees in over sixty programs of study. Despite

2600-501: Was erected in 1899, followed by the Frederick Ferris Thompson Memorial Hall in 1902–1904. Additionally, a four-wing dormitory building, called Whittier Hall, was built in 1900–1901. Enrollment increased quickly: the graduating class of 1911 contained 686 students, as opposed to the 26 students in the first graduating class. The founders early recognized that professional teachers need reliable knowledge about

2652-619: Was named an Education Laureate by the San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation in 2007 for OER Commons. In December 2010, ISKME was named a finalist in the Qatar Foundation World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Awards for its OER Commons teacher professional development programs. In 2011, ISKME won the Award for Bodies which Influence Policy from the Open Educational Quality Initiative (OPAL) ,

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2704-605: Was the first graduate school in the United States whose curriculum focused specifically on teacher education. In 1880, the Kitchen Education Association (KEA), also known as the Kitchen Garden Association , was founded by philanthropist Grace Hoadley Dodge , the daughter of wealthy businessman William Dodge . The association's focus was to replace miniature kitchen utensils for other toys that were age-appropriate for kindergarten-aged girls. In 1884,

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