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The office hours idea sounds crazy to me, and that is despite the fact that I actually had a professor's attention for an hour for each sheet. (2/3 on 1 tutoria

The office hours idea sounds crazy to me, and that is despite the fact that I actually had a professor's attention for an hour for each sheet. (2/3 on 1 tutorials). Some place doing mass lectures is going to inundate the professor's office, surely? Or perhaps in modern unis the students themselves share solutions on an online board? There's just so much self-learning involved it can be quite hard to narrow down your questions to where it can be discussed in an hour. That's especially if you actually tried to dig deeply into the concepts. You might have gotten stuck for days on a single problem, which is made much worse if there's no hints about how to find the solution. Another problem seems to be the opposite: you come in for the tutorial, you solve all the problems, and you're no wiser about the issues, despite having learned a mechanism for solving each problem on the sheet.

tomcat27 5y ago
> There's just so much self-learning involved it can be quite hard to narrow down your questions to where it can be discussed in an hour. I had this problem while taking grad courses. I needed time to produce follow up questions and office hours are just a misfit especially when I know there are a bunch of people waiting in line for time. What we ended up with is a Piazza where TAs mostly do the ritual. In popular areas, I wonder why I am paying when its no better than an internet forum, probably worse. I feel learning experience is just poorly structured. Teachers get away from the feedback received by invalidating it instead of introspecting it. I can't imagine any other field where feedback is just thrown out no matter how noisy it is.