With mass layoffs of educators at every level of the academy on the immediate horizon, it is time to start developing a full time online teaching portfolio in order to continue earning a living as a teacher. Fortunately, distance education technology will allow many individuals with earned graduate degrees to teach online college classes from the convenience of a personal computer, and if the correct mindset is acquired, the adjunct college instructor can easily earn a decent living from any geographical location that offers Internet access. The reality is that the administrators of the physical college and university campuses are unable to continue financing the maintenance of the physical plants (the campuses) that are home to the brick and mortar university classrooms. With the expected budgetary shortfalls for education expected to grow exponentially into the future, and the move against paying traditional college adjunct a living wage gathering strength with each passing semester, the alert academic will make online adjunct faculty positions a career priority.
The primary advantage online teaching has over teaching in a physical classroom concerns the availability of the online college classes in various online bachelor degree programs and online masters degree programs. For example, all that is required to apply for and be offered an online adjunct position with any of over five thousand post-secondary academic institutions is a laptop computer and access to the Internet. On the other hand, college adjunct that continue teaching college and university students in a physical classroom are severely limited as to the numbers of courses they can teach by the driving distance between campuses. In other words, if a college instructor cannot physically show up in the physical classroom, the administration will not pay them for the instruction they deliver there. Obviously, if a college teacher simply can’t reach the next campus by driving an automobile or truck, they cannot increase their income. On the other hand, an online adjunct instructor with well-honed computer skills and an understanding of how the academic labor market has moved to the Internet can acquire ten to twelve online college classes which can be managed in all of their aspects from practically any location on the globe.
In order to discover the online adjunct teaching opportunities available now it is necessary to learn as much about the cost-efficiency of distance education technology for the academic institutions themselves, and how this educational technology can be harnessed in an entrepreneurial fashion by academics that want the freedom to control their own online adjunct incomes. Of course, along with the ability to increase the online adjunct income streams by simply applying to additional online bachelor degree programs, which, after all, have the largest numbers of college and university students, the online faculty member can literally move about at will during the year since it is not necessary to be physically in any one location every day to teach multiple online college classes. As the academic landscape continues to undergo startling changes, with many teachers losing their jobs outright or having their salaries reduced sharply, it will become more important than ever to learn how to find and apply for online adjunct jobs.
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