Spring has officially sprung, which means it’s time to step outside and enjoy the fresh blooms of the season, especially on our campuses. I’m outdoors more often across our seven Indiana University campuses, as I’m sure you are too! When I’m outside, I’m not just enjoying the sun, I’m also thinking about how outdoor campus… Read more »
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. This spring, the Mosaic Initiative hosted three webinars highlighting new approaches to researching classroom behavior, new trends in classroom design and faculty support, and faculty’s perspectives on teaching in active learning classrooms…. Read more »
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… Read more »
Today we welcome to the Mosaic Blog our Mosaic Initiative Post-Doc Researcher, Merve Basdogan. Merve recently defended her PhD in Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University. In this first blog of the new year, Merve shares her personal academic journey to becoming an Educational Technologist who researches the importance of space design. An Academic Origin… Read more »
Today we welcome to the Mosaic Blog our Mosaic Research Intern, Tripp Harris. Tripp is currently a Learning Sciences PhD student at Indiana University. Typically, the Mosaic blog discusses issues related to classroom space and active learning in higher ed settings. This month, Tripp writes about the growing conversation around space in K-12 settings. “Over… Read more »
In today’s blog, we want to share our updated version of a Mosaic reflective portfolio. The reflective portfolio is an artifact that each Mosaic Fellow creates, piece by piece, through their tenure in the Mosaic Fellows Program. In a previous blog, we shared an anonymized example of our first version of the portfolio. Since then,… Read more »
Today we welcome to the Mosaic Blog our Mosaic Research Assistant, Merve Basdogan. Merve is currently an Instructional Systems Technology PhD candidate at Indiana University. In this first blog of the summer, Merve shares a synthesis of the literature of the growing trend of biophilia in classrooms. Biophiplia “The Greek word biophilia etymologically comes… Read more »
Last October, the Mosaic Initiative’s marked its five-year anniversary. To celebrate a productive five years, we put together the The Mosaic Report_2021, which highlights the impacts of the Mosaic Initiative across Indiana University since its start. In today’s blog, I want to share the report, highlight a few key outcomes of the past few years,… Read more »
In today’s blog, I want to share with our readers the latest from the Mosaic Initiative: the Learning-Space-Feedback-Guide. Recently, Merve Basdogan and I developed the Learning Space Feedback Guide (or LSF Guide) to “guide” our many stakeholders through the multi-step process of gathering and sharing faculty and student feedback (or data) on our learning… Read more »
Today we welcome to the Mosaic Blog our Mosaic Research Intern, Tripp Harris. Tripp is currently a Learning Sciences PhD student at Indiana University. In this blog, Tripp shares his take on the future outdoor learning spaces in Higher Ed. “Over the past twelve months, the COVID-19 pandemic has presented a range of challenges to… Read more »