Student Experience Lab Student-Inspired Innovation in Education

Welcome to BIF’s Student Experience Lab. As champions for audacious change, our mission is to channel the voice of the student into action by building a real-world, collaborative innovation platform to help education transform itself. We invite you to join us on this epic adventure.

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Portfolio of Lab Work

Check out some of the activities going on in the lab.

  • Blended Learning Model Experimentation

    The Student Experience Lab is working with Pleasant View Elementary School to help facilitate the school's transformation into a blended learning environment. With our expertise in educational transformation that draws heavily on engagement, human-centered design, and digital storytelling, the Lab will be working with Pleasant View to put their whole school model into action and use our tools and capabilities to facilitate the process.

  • Participatory Design Experiment: If I Could Make A School

    To accelerate the understanding of the secondary school experience, the Lab, in partnership with the Rhode Island Department of Education, brought forty students, ages 13 -22, together to share their experiences and brainstorm novel ideas for innovation in education.

  • Participatory Design Experiment: Re-creating the Student Experience at USU

    What if we put students in the driver’s seat of a new kind of R&D to transform higher education? One that provided a platform for engaging students more fully in a real world effort that also involved faculty, and university administrators? Could we improve a student’s education experience? Yes. Could we take it a step further and transform higher education itself? Yes.

  • Capturing the Experiences of Young Men of Color

    The Student Experience Lab partnered with the College Board to better understand and develop opportunities to enhance the educational experiences of young men of color. By engaging young male Asian American/Pacific Islanders, African Americans, Hispanic/Latinos, and Native Americans directly to understand how they view their experiences, we add their important voice to the innovation discussion of how to better meet their needs, improve their experience and lead them toward degree attainment.

  • Illuminating the U.S. College Student Experience

    In 2009, the Lab conducted primary research to understand and digitally document the educational experiences of students nationwide. Nine major themes were revealed that affect student performance. These themes span demographics, geography, school and student-type and serve as a catalyst of opportunity identification and experimentation to improve student outcome.

Perspectives

News, views, and student voices from the Student Experience Lab

Design Together, Transform Together: Student Experience Lab Teams Up With Pleasant View Elementary School

The Student Experience Lab is thrilled to announce we'll be working with Pleasant View Elementary School who is the winning school from the Rhode Island Department of Education's "Innovation Powered by Technology Model" School Grant. Pleasant View was one of a dozen schools to apply for the $470,000 grant which will be used to train teachers, open three computer labs, purchase equipment and extend the school day. Beginning in September, students will spend at least half of their school day engaged in online learning, letting them learn at their own pace under the supervision of their classroom teacher.

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Why shouldn't students play a designer role in the creation of new (and better!) school experiences?

What if we put students in the driver’s seat of a new kind of R&D to transform education? One that provided a platform for engaging students more fully in a real world effort that also involved faculty, administrators, support services and more? Could we improve a student’s education experience? Could we take it a step further and transform higher education itself?

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