Giving Compass' Take:

• In this post from EdSurge, Sydney Johnson highlights the changes that students want to see on their campuses.

• How do student's desires for improvements in education compare to those of faculty and the public? How can we empower students to realize their visions?

• For more on improvement areas in higher education, click here

There’s a lot that goes into innovation efforts on campus—think curriculum design, technology training for instructors, and bureaucracy. But too often, a critical element is left out of the process: student voice.

EdSurge Independent was created in 2016 as a way to change that by providing college and university students a platform to share their ideas, concerns, excitement and frustrations with the way technology shapes teaching and learning in higher education. Each semester a new group of fellows, made up of students from across the globe, is selected and meets weekly via video chat to talk through their ideas, and later publishes those thoughts on an independently-run student blog hosted on Medium.

After two years, nine student cohorts have together created a library of articles and resources about what students are thinking about when it comes to innovation in higher education. So to help faculty, instructional designers and college leaders better understand what students have said since the program launched, a former cohort leader Rory Foulger, recently completed a comprehensive report highlighting the most popular topics and trends that have come up.

Read the full article about higher education by Sydney Johnson at EdSurge.