2022 Mosaic Initiative Webinar Series for Inclusive Learning Spaces

Each year, the Mosaic Initiative at Indiana University invites speakers to talk about topics related to active learning classrooms, often on research and classroom design. Last month, the Mosaic Initiative hosted three webinars highlighting new approaches to inclusive and flexible classroom designs. Our guest speakers for the 2022 webinar series represented higher ed institutions from across the United States.

In today’s blog, I want to share all three webinar recordings with you.

Webinar One

In the first session, which was recorded on February 3, 2022, Richard Holeton, Assistant Vice Provost for Learning Environments, Emeritus, at Stanford University and Crystal Ramsay, Director (interim), Teaching and Learning with Technology, at Penn State University discussed the recent creation of a section dedicated to inclusion (including physical, cultural, and cognitive) in Version 3 of the Learning Space Rating System (LSRS).

Here’s the link for their talk, “Best Practices for Designing Inclusive Learning Spaces”: https://iu.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/1_362chhcp

Webinar Two

In our second session, which was recorded on February 11, 2022, Shannon Dowling, 2020-21 SCUP Fellow and Associate Principal of Learning Environments Strategy + Design at Ayers Saint Gross shared her research on more than two dozen institutions on the topic of welcoming and inclusive physical campus environments.

Here’s the link for Shannon’s talk, “Planning + Designing for Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Campus Learning Environments”:  https://iu.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/t/1_o3y95qj1

Webinar Three

In our final session, which was recorded on February 15, 2022, Jess Staggs, a research assistant in the ND Learning Research Lab at the University of Notre Dame and G. Alex Ambrose, Director of Learning Research at the Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence (both at the University of Notre Dame) spoke about how changes made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic affected the Learning Space Rating System (LSRS) scores of various classrooms at Notre Dame and how this information might inform the design of future learning spaces.

Here’s the link for their talk, “Building, Evaluating & Understanding the Flexible Classroom pre and post COVID”: https://iu.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/t/1_cp42obui

We hope you enjoy the webinars. If you want more, please explore previous webinars here: https://mosaic.iu.edu/research/research-webinar.html

Watch out Twitter for announcements of future webinars: @MosaicIU