Has anyone used MURAL for collecting feedback for a scientific thesis?

Ward

Our MURAL friend, Stefanie Deissler, asked on LinkedIn --- does anyone have an idea how to create an improvement and feedback #MURAL board for a scientific thesis?

Additional detail: "It should help to creatively support the individual processing phases and to visualize the ideas, implementations and results. At the end of the written elaboration we could use the #MURAL board as a visual representation."

If you have some experiences, ideas or examples, please share in the comments below so we can help.

Thank you!

Finnalli

We have used Mural for several research projects in our school, mostly as planning and bracketing (bias checking) exercises. I have used it for qualitative data collection as we developed a policy around student-centeredness as well. I would be happy to share, although I'm not sure if it will be helpful for any sort of quantitative data collection.

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I think qualitative data collection is very important as well - not just quant! MURAL lends itself well to qualitative data collection. It would be great to see your mural around student-centeredness @Finnalli!

Finnalli

Of course! I have a ton of quant data collection murals. I'm linking them here:

This student-centeredness one I used with department heads at our school to capture data about what student-centered learning looks like and I used it to write a policy for the school:

https://app.mural.co/t/lp3literatureclass0360/m/lp3literatureclass0360/1600322817043/1c26596e80112f964e425086ac8c9e1efaabaecd?sender=afinn8989

As you can see, I used one of your existing templates and modified it for a frayer model capture sheet.

I have two brackets to account for bias in two different projects: one is from a group of students and teachers and it is in relation to a research project focused on feedback:

https://app.mural.co/t/lp3literatureclass0360/m/lp3literatureclass0360/1609307713599/380b4cc598c8c7f10b2c5a59b5df0f4edd5018b7?sender=afinn8989

and one is from a teacher design team as we began research in the empathy stage of the design process. We were charged with designing a new teacher evaluation system:

https://app.mural.co/t/lp3literatureclass0360/m/lp3literatureclass0360/1614694554169/1872ec85ba81d3825f9bdb665d90ba63617e41c9?sender=afinn8989

In this same teacher evaluation project, I used Mural to facilitate a collaborative mind map to help us make sense of the data we collected from academic journals as well as specific empathy interviews, surveys, and focus groups:

https://app.mural.co/t/lp3literatureclass0360/m/lp3literatureclass0360/1622480271510/88598f5c502c954505aa28bb1d6e659b1506e4d2?sender=afinn8989

More than you asked for, I know, and happy to share more if you would like.

Christina

@Finnalli Thank you for sharing the above murals, they are very inspiring! This is a great way to introduce colleagues that are nervous about trying new things to the benefits of online collaboration of this type quickly and easily too.