The Plan
The resources used in my Literature Review surmise that the unfamiliarity of the benefits educational technology can provide in engaging students is not a new problem in student services. With the important role student services and academic advisors plays in students lives, the use of technology by students, the shifting missions of student recruitment and retention
professionals, significant changes in communication with students are required. Social media is widely used by students, and the functions social networking sites provide can be used to better connect and communicate with the new face of the student population, the Net Generation.
Action Research is learning while doing, it is solving problems while working in the
trenches. A more succinct definition would be to say that Action Research takes an individual in
a place of practice and provides methods to conduct research used to solve problems. It measures
the success of methods and allows for the individual to reflect on what worked and what didn’t.
As an action researcher I asked how I could integrate social media and other Internet
tools into student services in order to engage community college students, for the purpose of
increasing student knowledge of STEM majors, STEM transfer requirements and the desire to
attend UC Riverside Bourns College of Engineering.
professionals, significant changes in communication with students are required. Social media is widely used by students, and the functions social networking sites provide can be used to better connect and communicate with the new face of the student population, the Net Generation.
Action Research is learning while doing, it is solving problems while working in the
trenches. A more succinct definition would be to say that Action Research takes an individual in
a place of practice and provides methods to conduct research used to solve problems. It measures
the success of methods and allows for the individual to reflect on what worked and what didn’t.
As an action researcher I asked how I could integrate social media and other Internet
tools into student services in order to engage community college students, for the purpose of
increasing student knowledge of STEM majors, STEM transfer requirements and the desire to
attend UC Riverside Bourns College of Engineering.