Do Instructors’ Choice of Virtual Background in Online Classes Matter? Effects of Personal vs. Professional Virtual Background Use on Instructor Credibility and Student Learning

Student impressions of instructors based on Zoom backgrounds: investigating perceived technology skills of instructors and affective learning of students

“…In another study on video-based learning found that male students reported higher self-efficacy for learning the material with technology than female students (Hoogerheide et al, 2016). A recent study on students' reactions to an instructor's professional or personal virtual background choices in the online classroom found that female and male students perceive credibility of the instructor differently (Kelly et al, 2023). While male students found instructors who used personal virtual backgrounds in teaching to be less credible than those who used professional backgrounds (e.g., official university backgrounds), female students did not respond differently.…”