Name: Office Hours: An Index of COVID’s Impact upon Teaching
Start: 2022-11-19T11:15:00-0800
End: 2022-11-19T12:00:00-0800

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Office Hours: An Index of COVID’s Impact upon Teaching

It is a commonplace belief that COVID-19 will forever change how institutions of higher education approach teaching and learning. But how much do we really know about the pandemic’s lasting impact on the ways that instructors teach their students? In this session we will invite participants to generate some tentative answers to this question on the basis of data we have collected about how instructors at our institution evolved their office hours policies in response to (1) a campus-wide shift to remote teaching in AY 2020–21, and (2) the return to fully in-person instruction in AY 2021–22.

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Eleanor Finnegan

Adam Beaver

Director of Pedagogy, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University

As Director of Pedagogy, Adam Beaver provides leadership and strategic direction for the Bok Center's faculty programming, while working closely with faculty and graduate students in the humanities, social sciences, and General Education. Trained as a Renaissance historian, Adam is especially attuned to what we can learn from the deep history of universities, including the different kinds of intellectual practices and communities which have inhabited them. Rather than see recent trends in higher education, from the digital revolution to the shift towards active... Read More →