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 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 »
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 »
Reconsidering support for fall Since I began working for the Mosaic Initiative in 2015, I’ve focused on helping instructors develop and implement active learning approaches for any Indiana University classroom. In today’s blog, I want to share reflective worksheets that I’ve used to direct and scaffold instructor thinking about the intersections of space and pedagogy… Read more »
The Big Transition Last March, when universities and colleges across the nation moved online, higher ed collectively adjusted to emergency remote instruction. As of today’s writing, many institutions have decided, in some capacity, to return to the classroom to hold in-person classes. Now, in a world of social distancing and mask wearing, going face-to-face in… Read more »
Before we all started working from home, I used to take breaks from work to look out my office window and watch the construction progress on Innovation Hall, on the IUPUI campus. Innovation Hall, located in downtown Indianapolis, will soon support the teaching and research needs for IUPUI’s Schools of Science, Engineering and Technology, and… Read more »
What features do your instructors most like to have in a room? What classroom tools or technologies do they like to use most for teaching? I’m frequently asked these questions at conferences and from colleagues at my own and other institutions. My response: easy-to-use, writable white or glass board surfaces are most often requested by… Read more »
We recently interviewed three instructors who taught in Hine Hall 118 and Hine Hall 231 located on the IUPUI campus, and asked them to share their perspectives on teaching in these unique learning spaces. In this blog, Fawzi BenMessaoud, Andy Harris, and Sarah Johnson, generously share their experiences engaging students in these similarly designed active… Read more »
In the last few years, we have published several blogs devoted to showcasing room arrangements for our configurable classrooms, i.e. our Mosaic classrooms with movable tables and chairs. We compile those blogs and share them on the Classroom Spaces tab under the Resources section on the Mosaic website. Today I’ll add one more example to… Read more »
