Paper Title
Myth Busted on Official Hours – An Empirical Study on Technology Enabled Student-Faculty Out-of-Class Communication

Abstract
Studies show that effective out-of-class student-faculty communication helps students engaged in a course and contributes positively to their learning. In addition to the face-to-face office hours, technology advancement has enabled the college professors to interact with their students in using other mediums such as email, social media, communication platforms or virtual classroom, etc. In this paper, the authors propose to investigate students’ preferred ways to interact with their professors and empirically evaluate the effectiveness of different types of communication approaches using a survey-based method. The research design is presented and implication of the study is discussed. Index Terms - Out-of-Class Communication, Office Hours, Student-Faculty Interaction, Technology-Enabled Communication.