Many teachers today are realizing that the traditional academic employment situation requires razor sharp negotiating skills. For example, any educational institution that depends on state revenue for budgetary funds is currently being squeezed in a merciless fashion. This mean that the money required to pay secondary or post-secondary instructors a decent wage is simply not available to administrators. Further, what funds are accessible must be directed to the high costs associated with maintain large physical buildings and campuses. The end result of this economic configuration for the teachers is that it is now necessary to take a hard look at the employment opportunities offered by adjunct teaching jobs online.
An individual with an earned graduate degree, a Ph.D. or master’s degree, can add multiple online adjunct jobs to a teaching portfolio. The way to start investigating the online adjunct income streams that can be earned from teaching online college courses is to use a personal computer to access the websites of the over five thousand state colleges, four-year universities and for-profit colleges.
The for-profit colleges have successfully developed distance education technology to offer their students the chance to earn an online college degree for at least the last ten to twelve years. Now, the traditional post-secondary schools are trying to catch up by deploying their own degree programs, both undergraduate and graduate, at an ever increasing rate.
Of course, each online college class needs a academically qualified and technically savvy online adjunct instructor to teach it, and those online adjunct professor positions will increase as a result. As more post-secondary students enroll in online programs in order to earn their college degrees online, the more need there will be for online college teachers. Since all of the academic course work that occurs between online adjunct professors and college students taking online courses occurs on the Internet, it is possible for an online college professor to teach for online degree programs from almost any spot where access to the online courses is available.
Of course, it will take some time, perhaps as much as a year, to acquire six to eight online college classes simply because more academics are starting to apply for online adjunct college teaching jobs and the schools themselves are just now moving to a digital platform for many of their academic programs. However, the process of employment distance education technology is accelerating every day. The point is that online college teaching jobs are an excellent way for a person with an earned graduate degree to increase teaching income or to completely replace the ever-diminishing teaching income being earned by continuing to teach on a physical community college campus or in a high school.
