As we begin the new year, I’m excited to share that the call for 2020 – 2021 Mosaic Faculty Fellows is out for the IU Bloomington campus! The Mosaic Initiative will be accepting applications for the 10th cohort of Mosaic Fellows until March 23, 2020. Like previous cohorts of Mosaic Fellows, the next round of… Read more »
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Teaching Tips: Hine Hall 118 and Hine Hall 231
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 »
Configuring your classroom: ES 1117
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 »
Scaling and Customizing Faculty Support for Mosaic Classrooms
As the Mosaic Initiative approaches is five-year anniversary, I’ve begun to reflect on how far we’ve come in supporting innovative classroom design, research, and active learning in all Indiana University (IU) classrooms. In the early days of the Mosaic Initiative, we led a lot of workshops focused on helping faculty become acquainted with Indiana University’s… Read more »
The Blueprint Walk
Teaching in a new classroom this semester? Is it a large lecture hall? A lab? A small seminar space? No matter what your classroom design or size, I’d like to share an activity to help you think about how classroom space can directly support your teaching. I like to call it the “Blueprint Walk”. Step… Read more »
The Mosaic Fellows’ Reflective Portfolio
In this blog I want to highlight a key artifact that our Mosaic Fellows produce during their tenure in the Mosaic Fellows program: the Mosaic Fellows’ Reflective portfolio. At each Fellows session, and based on prompts we provide, the Fellows are asked to reflect (in writing) on the meeting activities and readings. Then, after the… Read more »
Teaching Tips: GISB West Wing Edition
We recently interviewed four instructors who taught in the west wing large classrooms of the Global and International Studies building — (GISB) rooms 1100, 1106, 1112, 1118, 1122, 1128, and 1134, on the Bloomington campus. We asked instructors to share their perspectives on, and experiences with, teaching in the building’s larger classrooms, which seat around… Read more »
Make a Participation Rainbow
When Dan Richert, Senior Lecturer of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, asks his students to work in groups at their whiteboards, he gives each student a different color marker. Before they begin their group assignment, Dan tells students that he expects them to “make a rainbow” on the board by the time they are finished. In… Read more »
Teaching Tips: University Hall AD 1000 Edition
We recently interviewed three instructors who taught in University Hall AD 1000, located on the IUPUI campus, and asked them to share their perspectives on, and experiences with, teaching in this unique learning space. In this blog, Andy Buchenot, Tyrone Freeman, and Gina Gibau generously share their experiences engaging students in this active learning classroom…. Read more »
Teaching Tips: IUPUI’s Lecture Hall LE104 Edition
We recently interviewed five instructors who taught in Lecture Hall LE104, located on the IUPUI campus, and asked them to give their perspectives on, and experiences with, teaching in this unique learning space. In this blog, Pat Clark, Lisa Contino, Modupe Labode, Gina Londino, and Kathy Marrs generously share their experiences with engaging students in LE104… Read more »