EdLab was an education research organization located at Columbia University's Teachers College in New York City. The EdLab was established to create effective and efficient methods of education and education research through communication and advancements in technology, and served as both a university and community resource center. The mission of EdLab is to engage in conceptual development, demonstration projects, and new educational research to explore and document diverse possibilities for the future of education.Founded in 2004, it started under the leadership of Professor Gary Natriello, Edlab was a unit of the Gottesman Libraries at Teachers College. EdLab housed both library administration and an interdisciplinary team of developers, designers and content creators. Their work was divided into five foundational areas: Reimagining Schooling, Innovations for Online Learning, New Directions for Online Publishing, Efficiencies in Educational Research, and Charting the Future of Libraries. EdLab was organized in small flexible multi-disciplinary teams that collaborate to develop and deliver products and services of distinction. Projects EdLab Seminar (2005 - 2019) EdLab hosted seminars at the Gottesman Libraries at Teachers College (almost) every Wednesday. Vialogues (2011 - 2019) Vialogues was a free, online video discussion platform. It was created and developed by a dedicated team of educators, researchers, and engineers from EdLab at Teachers College Columbia University. As well as uploading original content, vialogues also allows users to "borrow" content from YouTube & Vimeo in order to create a discussions. Vialogues also allows users to embed video discussion on other websites, and allows videos to be private or public, as well as include interactive features like polls. Research has shown that the use of cognitive words within vialogues discussions contributes positively to user engagement, in addition to the number of views, the number of moderator comments, and the number of time-code clicks, which also correlate positively with user engagement. New Learning Times (2013 - 2019) The New Learning Times (NLT) was an online publication created and hosted by EdLab, centered on developing innovations in the education sector. It publishes articles daily, and aims to provide "coverage of the transformation of learning opportunities in the information age for those shaping the future of education". NLT publishes a number of regular features including: EdLab Review NL Sector Research Digest Seen in NY VisualizED Between January and March 2019, NLT had 18,770 user visits. Seen in NY Seen in NY was a weekly web series produced by EdLab Studios