Too many conversations about education reflect the perspective, needs and agenda of institutions and not the needs of the students they serve. Despite our best intentions to give students what (we think) they want and need, we often miss the mark. The Business Innovation Factory's Student Experience Lab was created to put the student and the student experience back at the center of our country's efforts to transform education.
Learn more Get involvedIn its first phase of work, the BIF Student Experience Lab team worked with students at schools across the country to gather thousands of data points about the college student experience.
While every student experience is in many ways unique, the Lab's design researchers identified nine experiential themes that span demographics, geography, school and student-type.
In mapping the student experience, the Lab team used video, audio, photography and narrative to bring new visibility to the human, environmental and systems-level factors that have the most significant impact on student success.