Virtual Classroom Assistant in rural setting

The virtual classroom has become our reality nowadays

As an executive MBA programme manager I volunteered to become a Virtual Classroom Assistant (VCA), as I thought I could support my students better, I could help my team and, I could help other teams in the wider school.

Managing virtual classroom

“ I am sitting in my rural home, and collaboratively working together with colleagues and students literally from all around the world. ”

For me it is an exciting experience to be a VCA. I have learnt a lot (not just about using technology), I have met a lot of new people from the school, and I have been engaging in “enhanced collaborations”. My experience is that the online course deliveries require huge team effort in a unique way. So far, I have been VCA for course deliveries in my own Team: I supported the last module and the virtual end of course ceremony of an executive MBA cohort and supported the Marketing course for another cohort.

I live in a rural village south of Oxford. When I step out of our door, I can take long walks along the Thames and on the fields. It is a very complex feeling and experience providing online education in these unprecedented times. I am sitting in my rural home, and collaboratively working together with colleagues and students literally from all around the world. I am not going anywhere, only to the nearby fields, but I am still virtually travelling around the world, and I can support our faculty and our students with the online programme deliveries.