AUTHOR=Frey T. Kody TITLE=Overcoming Technological Barriers to Instruction: Situating Gen Z Students as Reverse Mentors JOURNAL=Frontiers in Communication VOLUME=6 YEAR=2021 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/communication/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2021.630899 DOI=10.3389/fcomm.2021.630899 ISSN=2297-900X ABSTRACT=

In response to a changing higher education landscape, this essay presents an argument for utilizing reverse mentoring to solve technological problems in the academy. Specifically, the essay argues that 1) Gen Z students are uniquely positioned to capitalize on reverse mentoring programs and 2) instructional communication is an important framework for future reverse mentoring research.