Student Technology Consultant Program 2023 Landscape Analysis Report
“We need student representatives for feedback and support and their viewpoint."
Report Summary
The ASSETT Student Technology Consultant (STC) program is a team of undergraduate student staff members who partner with faculty, graduate instructors, and teaching assistants in the College of Arts & Sciences to determine when and how technology can be used in their classrooms. STCs provide suggestions and/or recommendations about technologies that support faculty members' teaching goals, students' learning styles, and course structures. The goal of the STC program is to ultimately enhance the undergraduate student experience with using innovative technologies and support faculty members' use of innovative pedagogies.
In spring 2023, the Student Services Portfolio Manager and Student Technology Consultant (STC) Program Manager, Jacie Moriyama, sought to align the teaching and learning with technology needs and trends of the College of Arts & Sciences with the STC program. To achieve this goal, she worked with researcher Irfanul Alam to design a Landscape Analysis.
The results of this assessment will be used to inform how the STC program might better align with the needs of the college. A final report and recommendation will be presented to the ASSETT manager to provide them with information and a rationale for programmatic decisions. Finally the report will be distributed to those who participated in the study, ASSETT staff and Advisory board members, and members of the Center for Teaching and Learning.
Overview of Findings
The results presented in this Landscape Analysis report were synthesized from interviews with faculty members, graduate students, and staff from ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder. A brief overview of findings are outlined below. The expanded version of these themes can be found under the Findings section in the full report.
Instructors can use input from the Student Technology Consultants to integrate technology into their curriculum, ask them to provide support in and out of class, and provide a unique outlook based on their own experience as undergraduate students.
Instructors can use input from the Student Technology Consultants to integrate technology into their curriculum, ask them to provide support in and out of class, and provide a unique outlook based on their own experience as undergraduate students.
The services and benefits of working with Student Technology Consultants should be advertised often to create and sustain an awareness and interest. ‘Awareness campaigns’ could be accomplished through workshops, presentations during faculty meetings, and graduate student training sessions. It would also be helpful to create a handout of tools supported by the STCs.
Faculty members who participate in ASSETT services, programs, and initiatives can include these efforts in their Faculty Report of Professional Activities, or FRPA. ASSETT developed general guidelines to support this procedure.