Lisa Petrides, Ph.D., is president and founder of the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME.org), an independent, non-profit educational research institute located in Half Moon Bay, CA. ISKME’s work includes social science research, research-based innovations, and the facilitation of field-building to improve knowledge collaboration in education. Petrides leads the OER Commons initiative (OERCommons.org), an open source teaching and learning network, which supports teachers and learners in the creation and adaptation of open educational resources (OER). A former professor in the Department of Organization and Leadership at Columbia University, Teachers College, Petrides received her Ph.D. in Education from Stanford University. Petrides is widely published and gives keynote addresses across the globe.
