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http://dx.doi.org/10.3837/tiis.2021.08.002

Integrated Media Platform-based Virtual Office Hours Implementation for Online Teaching in Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Era  

Chen, Mingzi (College of Telecommunication and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
Wei, Xin (College of Telecommunication and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
Zhou, Liang (College of Telecommunication and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
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KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS) / v.15, no.8, 2021 , pp. 2732-2748 More about this Journal
Abstract
In post-COVID-19 pandemic era, students' learning effects and experience may sharply decrease when teaching is transferred from offline to online. Several tools suitable for online teaching have been developed to guarantee and promote students' learning effects. However, they cannot fully consider teacher-student interaction in online teaching. To figure out this issue, this paper proposes integrated media platform-based virtual office hours implementation for online teaching. Specifically, an integrated media platform (IMP) is first constructed. Then, virtual office hours (VOH) is implemented based on the IMP, aiming at increasing student-teacher interactions. For evaluating the effectiveness of this scheme, 140 undergraduate students using IMP are divided into one control group and three experimental groups that respectively contain text, voice and video modes. The experiment results indicate that applying VOH in the IMP can improve students' online presence and test scores. Furthermore, students' participating modes during VOH implementation can largely affect their degree of presence, which can be well classified by using principal component analysis. The implication of this work is that IMP-based VOH is an effective and sustainable tool to be continuously implemented even when the COVID-19 pandemic period ends.
Keywords
Integrated media platform; virtual office hours; online teaching; presence;
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