Supports an exploratory study on student feedback during an LMS transition. Responsibilities include synthesizing academic literature, organizing research artifacts, transcribing interviews, analyzing institutional materials, conducting thematic coding, compiling descriptive statistics, and preparing research summaries, tables, manuscripts, and presentations. The role is a flexible hybrid student position requiring independent work, strong communication, and attention to detail.
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Project Name: Student Feedback on Institutional Direction and Faculty Professional Development during LMS Transition
Desired Start Date: October 1, 2026
Position End Date: March 31, 2027
Salary range: $18.42 - $23.51
Bargaining Unit: BCGEU Support
Classification: Research Assistant
Type of appointment: Non-regular student
Closing date: September 30, 2026
Your Opportunity
- Literature Syntheses: assist in gathering, organizing, and summarizing academic literature on educational technology adoption, faculty workload, and LMS design.
- Data Collection & Organization: help administer organize research artifacts, assist with transcribing interview audio.
- Data Analysis: assist in systematic analyzing institutional artifacts, perform thematic coding, and compile descriptive statistics.
- Knowledge Dissemination: Contribute to drafting research summaries, preparing summary tables, and formatting manuscripts and presentations.
This exploratory study seeks to explore student perceptions on specific LMS design choices they find helpful and challenging to their learning. By capturing student feedback during a technical migration audit, this research will identify design standards to inform institutional faculty development and improve online instructional quality. A descriptive research question is guiding this research, as it asks what is going on in terms of actual observable events and behaviour: How can student perceptions and feedback of effective course design captured during an LMS migration audit inform institution-wide design standards and the development professional learning for faculty and instructors?
The Research Assistant (RA) will support the research team across several key stages of the project:
Location/Schedule of Work
This is a flexible hybrid position, with bi-weekly in-person check-in with the project supervisor at the Kelowna campus. The project is funded for 100 hours; RA can expect to work between 5-8 hours per weekend, depending on project need between October 1, 2026 and March 31, 2027.
Skills/Qualities Sought
Must be a current student at Okanagan College (this is a requirement of the funding source); have strong communication skills; high attention to detail; ability to work independently.
Previous research experience is an asset.
Previous research experience is an asset.
Our Values
Students first: Creating meaningful life-long educational opportunities of the highest quality for alumni, current, and future students is at the heart of everything we do.
Community: We are one College. We enthusiastically embrace the opportunity to work with, learn from, and support everyone we encounter collaboratively and collegially.
Respect: We welcome, embrace, and celebrate that which make us unique in creating an environment in which every individual is valued, affirming our commitment to human dignity for all.
Courage: We are courageous in our actions in areas that contribute to positive change in our communities and beyond. We have the courage to be vulnerable. We are truthful, sincere, and act ethically with honesty and fairness.
Relationships: We steward meaningful relationships built on a foundation of reciprocity. We are compassionate, empathic, and care for the holistic well-being of students, employees, community members, and the land.
Distinction: We choose activities in which we can achieve excellence and positively impact society.
Okanagan College is committed to increasing the equitable and inclusive participation of marginalized people in all aspects of college life. We welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, Black People, members of racialized groups/visible minorities, people with disabilities and people with diverse gender identities or expressions. People with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may contact, in confidence, [email protected].
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