It is well worth the time of any individual with an earned graduate degree to examine the multiple online teaching opportunities available today as a result of the explosion in online bachelor degree programs and online masters degree programs. Physical public educational institutions are taking a real hit in their budgetary funds now, and the result of this lack of money is forcing administrators to implement distance education technology at an ever rapid pace. The reason there are many new online degree programs being introduced in the academy is that it is simply much cheaper for the schools to offer post-secondary instruction on computer servers than it is to build and maintain physical college, community college and university classrooms. The for-profit colleges realized the economic efficiency of online college degree programs over a decade ago and they have certainly benefited from the popularity of online college courses with new and returning college and university students. Now, a traditional adjunct college professor trying desperately to find enough physical campuses to work on in order to earn a decent living can easily double or triple the teaching portfolio by applying for online faculty positions with online business schools, online accounting schools and online criminal justice schools from an inexpensive laptop computer.
There is also the added benefit of mobility inherent in teaching online as an online adjunct instructor. For example, all of the online college degree programs and the online college classes in them are located on the Internet. This means that they can be accessed by the online instructor from any place on the globe that offers Internet connections. An alert academic can teach five to ten online college courses from any city, town, state or country. The location the online adjunct instructor chooses to teach from has no impact on the online instructor’s ability to teach online for a particular school. On the other hand, a traditional adjunct instructor teaching on physical college or university campuses has but a few schools available to teach at even in a densely populated urban area. The obvious difference between teaching online for online college degree programs and teaching in a few physical college classrooms is the amount of income that the online adjunct instructor can generate throughout the calendar year.
Of course, a prospective online instructor needs a strategy for locating potential online classes to teach. The best idea is to determine if an individual school offers a variety of academic disciplines online to its students. For example, can new and returning college and university students earn an electrical engineering bachelor degree online, an online business management degree or a library science degree online? If so, these schools are good candidates for making applications for online faculty positions. Even the community colleges that have been hesitant to explore the benefits of distance education technology are now speeding towards them and are starting to offer online college classes to their students. In the end, every post-secondary academic institution, and there are over five thousand of them, will be a prospective employer for the alert online adjunct instructor wanting to explore online teaching opportunities.
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