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EHE Facilities and Resources Available for Conduct of Research

Office of Technology and Enhanced Learning

The Office of Technology and Enhanced Learning (OTEL) is responsible for developing, maintaining, and supporting a wide array of technology services for faculty, staff, and students of OSU's College of Education and Human Ecology. These services include website development, instructional support, network infrastructure maintenance, and desktop support. Our mission is to deliver robust information technology services that support and advance the mission and goals of the college.

OTEL provides the following general services to college faculty and staff:

EHE Research Centers

Schoenbaum Family Center at Weinland Park

At the Schoenbaum Family Center at Weinland Park, the education of young children is based on a combination of caring relationships and the best in early childhood research. Located in Columbus' Weinland Park neighborhood, the center opened to families in autumn 2007.

The Ohio State University collaborates with Columbus City Schools and with the Child Development Council of Franklin County Headstart/Early Head Start to serve a culturally and economically diverse community of children ages birth to five and their families. The unique A. Sophie Rogers Laboratory School, which is within the Schoenbaum Center, overlooks the park and is co-located with the Weinland Park Elementary School, providing opportunities for collaboration across programs as well as sites for teacher training and research.

In 1924, Ohio State was one of the first universities in the country to establish an early childhood laboratory school. Now we're among the first again, perhaps the first to collaborate with public and private partners to build our university child development laboratory in a neighborhood of documented need. Through research, innovative approaches, and best practices, we address the special issues facing families in this and similar neighborhoods worldwide.

Metro High School

Metro Early College High School is a small and intellectually vibrant learning community open to students in Franklin County. Metro Early College High School is designed to serve students who want a personalized and extraordinary learning experience that prepares them for a connected world where math, science and technology are vitally important. All Metro students engage in a personally relevant and academically rigorous curriculum within a safe and trusting environment.

The learning experience is divided into two different phases: preparation and exploration (called CorePrep) and internships and access to college (called College Access). During the Core Prep phase, 9th and 10th grade students experience focuses on learning that promotes performance. To exit the preparatory phase, the students must demonstrate performances in mathematics, science, social studies, and language arts. This performance demonstration includes successfully passing the Ohio Graduation Tests and completing performance tasks that showcase the student's ability to work independently and in-group environments as they investigate solutions to real world problems.

At its heart, Metro is designed to improve student achievement as measured through varied and multiple assessments, including the state-required Ohio Graduation Test. This mission will be accomplished through an environment that combines intellectual vibrancy with personalization. The school was created to serve  average or underperforming students looking to be challenged and to improve themselves in a different environment -- not the "cream of the crop" student. In particular, there will be a focus on urban students.

ColLABoration: the partnership between Ohio State and COSI

Science museums and universities each hold a deep commitment to educating the public in meaningful and impactful ways. Changes in the operations of each institution, indeed in our evolving society, bring an opportunity for these organizations to come together in a new way; one that advances the mission of each of them individually, while collectively creating a new, more effective model for public science education for the 21st century.

The partnership between COSI and The Ohio State University provides for innovative and publicly visible venues for scientists to conduct research that simultaneously provide the public with experiences of science that are meaningful and personally relevant.
While the OSU scientists conduct world-class research in the laboratories at COSI, COSI will have the opportunity to:

The partnership between COSI and The Ohio State University provides for innovative and publicly visible venues for scientists to conduct research that simultaneously provide the public with experiences of science that are meaningful and personally relevant.

While conducting world-class research in the laboratories at COSI, the OSU scientist also will have the opportunity to:

Center for Learning Excellence

The Center for Learning Excellence at the Ohio State University helps agencies and organizations meet the educational, behavioral health, human services and youth work force development needs of the people they serve. The Center helps customers build capacity to make better decisions about child and family serving policies and programs by: conducting research or translating research findings to identify evidence-based practices that lead to positive outcomes, providing training and technical assistance consistent with the evidence-based approach and evaluating or helping customers to perform evaluations to measure the effectiveness of policies and programs.

Center on Education and Training for Employment

The Center on Education and Training for Employment engages with state, national, and international clients from education, governmental agencies, organized labor, and public and private entities to:

As a university-based research and development center, CETE has access to the foremost authorities on workforce development and related fields to fulfill its mission.

Center for Special Needs Populations

Established in 1980, The Center for Special Needs Populations (CSNP) at The Ohio State University provides interdisciplinary professional support for national, regional, state, and local projects. These projects focus on increasing the social and educational opportunities and quality-of-life for special needs children and their families by improving the community systems that help to support them. The Center has also evolved a broad focus in the area of early childhood education. Our staff has experience with systems change, strategic planning, training and technical assistance, as well as computer networking methods and technologies.

The staff at the Center for Special Needs Populations is committed to providing efficient solutions to the needs of our clients. Our areas of expertise include:

Ohio Resource Center for Mathematics, Science, and Reading

The Ohio Resource Center (ORC) enhances teaching and learning by promoting standards-based best practices in mathematics, science, and reading for Ohio schools and universities. ORC serves as a trusted source of easily accessible, peer-reviewed, high-quality, and effective resources.

The Ohio Resource Center for Mathematics, Science, and Reading (ORC), a project of the State University Education Deans, has been funded by the Ohio General Assembly and established by the Ohio Board of Regents to:

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