Most teachers really like to teach despite the problems surrounding the profession right now, and one of the biggest problems is income. Not being sure about having an income or having one’s current income reduced or eliminated completely can drive a teacher to distraction or worse. It doesn’t have to be this way, however, and distance education technology is the tool that can permit individuals with earned graduate degrees, a Ph.D. or a master’s degree, to add momentum to their teaching schedules with online adjunct professor positions. A large portion of the new and returning college students currently swelling student populations are termed non-traditional college students.
These students have many family and employment obligations that often interfere with class schedules, and this is especially true if the non-traditional students have to drive a personal vehicle to a remote location such as a college campus on the edge of the community at odd hours of the day and night in order to attend a lecture or take a test. These students appreciate the opportunity to earn an online masters degree or bachelors degree online from their computers at home. As every college teacher knows, every accredited college class must be lead by a academically qualified instructor, and online college courses are no different in this regard since the online classes are part of accredited online college degree programs.
These seeming isolated circumstances can work together to the benefit of teachers with earned graduate degree because they mean that the community colleges, state-colleges, four-year universities and for-profit schools that confer an online degree need people with the appropriate academic credentials and the technical know-how to teach the growing numbers of online classes that lead to an online social work degree, a health administration degree online or an online psychology degree. Simply put, colleges and universities that are promoting online college degree programs do not have as many online adjunct instructors as they need now, and the shortage will only grow greater in the future because student populations will continue to grow at a rapid pace.
As a result of this shortage of adept online college teachers, an individual already teaching college classes at a traditional post-secondary institution can propel his or her teaching career by acquiring online adjunct jobs. Teaching online for schools that offer fully accredited online degrees can produce a nice additional income even if the college instructor only teach two or three online college courses at a time. For example, many for-profit schools online offer online classes that run only six week, and there are many that offer the eleven-week quarter online classes to their students. Additionally, these shorter classes are offered to students throughout the year, so there is no dreaded summer break that leaves so many traditional college adjuncts without an income for almost three months.
A year-long way of earning money from teaching multiple online college classes will certainly energize the flagging enthusiasm of any college adjunct instructor, and after a period of time during which a decent living is made from an inexpensive laptop access the Internet from practically any geographic location, the person with an earned graduate degree may decided that enough online faculty positions actually constitute a new teaching career.
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