Staying Connected Through a Pandemic – 15 minutes at a time
The Value of Virtual Office Hours
An academic shares strategies for organising virtual office hours to connect with students...and how energising an experience just 15 minutes can be!
In this article, Noah Askin considers how the digital shift has changed student interaction and offers a range of suggestions on how to make the most of virtual office hours – for both you and your students. In their approach, Askin explored the following steps;
- UtiIsing social media to spread the word
- consult your calendar
- Digitise scheduling
- Send a reminder
- Set up meeting rooms, and
- Keeping the connection going.
For BEL+T's current resources and advice on effective student interaction, please view our Interaction + Collaboration for Learning page.