Virtual Office Hours

Virtual Office Hours

TFs, working as PITFs, conducted live online office hours. Using the web conferencing software, they could talk and text chat, share a program or a view of their computer desktop, and illustrate concepts on a whiteboard.

 

 

 


 

Teaching Challenge:

Students in statistics courses typically require more one-on-one help then they do in other courses. Often, students require help in the evenings when the teaching fellows are at home.

Faculty/Instructor(s):

Professor Judy Singer

Fellow(s):

Tom Tomberlin

School, Library, Museum:

Education

Project Deliverable:

Through web conferencing, teaching fellows are able to meet with and coach students at times when it's difficult for people to meet on campus.

Tools and/or Technologies:

Elluminate and Bamboo pen tool

Course(s)/Discipline(s):

S-030: Intermediate Statistics: Applied Regression and Data Analysis

Year Created:

2007

Supported by the Harvard Initiative for Learning & Teaching (HILT)