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. 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 »
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 »
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 »
Today we welcome to the Mosaic Blog two faculty from The Instituto Cumbres and Prepa Anahuac, a private, K-12 school in Oaxaca, Mexico. In this blog, Diego González and Jorge Méndez write about their school’s journey to designing and building active learning classrooms for their students. Diego and Jorge also write our first bilingual Mosaic… Read more »
Today we welcome to the Mosaic Blog two faculty from The Instituto Cumbres and Prepa Anahuac, a private, K-12 school in Oaxaca, Mexico. In this blog, Diego González and Jorge Méndez write about their school’s journey to designing and building active learning classrooms for their students. Diego and Jorge also write our first bilingual Mosaic… 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. Tripp shares his take on the affordances of outdoor learning spaces at the University of Miami, and how other schools could innovate to make use of on-campus outdoor space for… Read more »
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 »