Research has shown that office hours or increased interaction with a professor leads to increased retention, engagement, and academic performance. The challenge is getting students to participate in office hours. Students are increasingly involved in more than classroom pursuits. They are also supporting families and working. By incorporating virtual hours into your schedule, you can connect with more students.
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Even if students are in a traditional face-to-face class, they still appreciate an instructor incorporating virtual office hours into the mix. With extremely busy schedules, they are looking for anything that will allow them to achieve all their goals. Virtual office hours will allow them to get the help they need to succeed.
In this episode, we are going to explore why you should incorporate virtual office hours into your classroom, examine points to consider, and look at strategies to make these office hours opportunities more effective.
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Additional Reading
- Making the Most of Virtual Office Hours
- 2,700 Minutes: How to Make the Most of Your Office Hours
- Small Teaching Tip #18: Increasing Students’ Use of Office Hours
- Two Tips to Increase Students’ Use of Office Hours
- Make Your Office Hours a Requirement
- Office Hours Redux
- Virtual office hours
- Zoom: Hold Online Office Hours
- Zoom – How to Setup Virtual Office Hours using Zoom
- 2 Minutes for Pedagogy: Using Zoom for Virtual Office Hours
- 6 Lessons in Moving to Virtual Office Hours
- Re-imagining your online office hours
- Live Synchronous Web Meetings in Asynchronous Online Courses: Reconceptualizing Virtual Office Hours
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