![Figure 1. Image of two students in front of the first-place winner poster designed in response to the question of “What is being an educational technologist” in 2009 in collaboration with my classmate Haluk Alp Celik.](https://blogs.iu.edu/mosaiciu/files/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-03-at-10.10.24-AM.png)
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 »