Since it is impossible for any academic currently teaching in a public education setting to determine when the teacher layoffs will end, it is prudent for any educator with an earned graduate degree, a doctorate or master's degree, to not delay searching for online adjunct college teaching jobs. Distance education technology is now being implemented by state college, community college and four-year universities at a rate seen only at for-profit colleges until now. This means that there are more online adjunct positions being created literally every semester. An academic with modest computer skills can easily apply for multiple online teaching jobs every day, and an online teaching schedule containing multiple online college courses can provide a considerable financial buffer should another round of layoffs occur in the near future. Of course, student populations at public post-secondary academic institutions are swelling each academic year as a result of the deteriorating job market, and as these students enroll in online courses in order to earn an online bachelor degree as a way to improve their chances to land a better career upon graduation, the need for online adjunct instructors with computer skills will continue to increase. The alert educator will see the benefits of being able to earn multiple online adjunct income streams and take action immediately to apply for online teaching opportunities by accessing the faculty application sections located on the websites of the thousands of colleges and universities.
There is a distinct absence of positive advice for teacher working in public education since there are fewer dollars in academic budgets available to pay traditional faculty salaries. This shift in the use of the available academic labor market is towards distance education, so currently the best recommendation for professional educators, those with earned graduate degrees, is online college instructor positions with online college degree programs. Every community college, state university, four-year college, for-profit college and technical school, the entire host of post-secondary academic institutions, already offer some form of online learning to their enrolled students. Each of the online college classes must have an online adjunct instructor in possession of an earned graduate degree, a doctorate or master's degree, teaching the college and university students enrolled in the online degree programs. Further, the necessary growth of online bachelor degree programs and online master's degree programs is generating far more online adjunct teaching positions than can be filled at this time. This shortage of qualified academics needed to teach online means that he educators with a graduate degree and a little confidence in the ability to learn how to use a personal computer to navigate the Internet and locate available online teaching jobs can build a solid career in distance education.
Many educators wanting to transition out of the physical classroom and into online teaching are finding the journey rough at times. This is primarily because of unreasonable expectations on the part of the prospective online adjunct instructor. First and foremost, the online teaching opportunities with online college degree programs are growing every academic year, but there is an inherent bureaucratic hesitancy in the processing of online faculty applications. This means that it will be necessary to make multiple applications for online adjunct jobs with the thousand of community colleges, state colleges and four-year universities every day. While there will be a development curve as a rotational submission process in set in place, but this submission system will make the path to online instructor jobs smooth and productive. The reason this search strategy will generate enough online college courses to fully fill or partially fill an online teaching schedule is that the deployment of online degree programs, and, thus, the numbers of available online teaching positions, will continue to increase at an exponential rate far into the future.
The best way for teachers with graduate degrees, master's degrees or doctorate degrees, to consider faculty positions teaching online classes is as an academic activity that will last. The simple truth is that distance education technology is not a passing fancy because of the economic considerations inherent in the cost differences between delivering instruction from a computer server and delivering the same instruction from a physical classroom. It is much less expensive for academic administrators with state colleges, four-year universities, community colleges and technical schools to embrace accredited online learning programs that to build and maintain physical campuses. Of course, distance learning impacts the academic labor model by creating a multitude of part time teaching positions instead of the traditional decades-long academic jobs in one physical classroom on one traditional campus, but in the final analysis this change actually empowers the online adjunct instructors that participate in it because it creates multiple online adjunct income streams. This means that if there is some difficulty with one online degree program it is possible to replace it simply be applying to another of many online bachelor degree programs and online master degree programs. In terms of the benefits for academics that learn how to use a personal computer to teach online for a living the real value of online teaching positions resides in the longevity that derives from becoming an academic entrepreneur instead of remaining a state employee subject to academic layoffs that completely evaporate the single income received from a single source.
Since there seems to be no discernible end to the budget cuts in public education the fortunate rise of adjunct jobs online is certainly a trend worthy of an academic's attention. The maturation of distance education technology over the last ten years or so is making it very easy for academic administrators at community colleges, stare colleges, four-year universities and technical schools to offer their enrolled students online classes that can be accessed from a personal computer. The college and university students view online learning as a very logical approach to earning an academic degree because computer are so ubiquitous now that using them to pursue an online bachelor degree or online master degree seems very reasonable. This attitude about accredited distance learning programs on the part of administrators and students is quite beneficial to educators seeking online faculty positions to replace the lost physical classrooms on traditional campuses. The alert academics seeking to replace or supplement an income from teaching will take note of the prevailing attitude about distance education and start building an online teaching schedule as soon as possible.
The practical reason to cultivate online adjunct jobs with accredited online college degree programs is the income they can produce all year long. The online adjunct instructor teaching even a few online college courses from a personal computer can enjoy the additional online adjunct income without the usual summer break experienced by traditional adjunct instructors on physical campuses. The three months between the two sixteen-week Fall and Spring semesters are the financial bane of adjunct college faculty members working on a physical campus because there are usually few or no classes to teach, so the traditional adjunct college professor ends up making shoelace soup by the end of the summer because there is no money coming in from teaching college students. Fortunately, these same traditional adjunct professors can generate income all three of the summer months by acquiring multiple online faculty positions in an online teaching schedule. The best way to go about finding online teaching opportunities is to start making applications at the faculty applications sections of the thousand of community colleges, for-profit, technical school and state university websites.
In order to be successful as an online adjunct instructor teaching for online bachelor degree programs and online master degree programs an educator must focus on building the foundations of a massive search process. The most productive organization of the search for online adjunct positions is rotational in nature. For example, every post-secondary academic institution now has distance learning available to their student populations. In some instances, a rural community college for example, the school may have several dozen online courses they offer their students. In other cases, a four-year state university for example, full scale online bachelor degree programs and online master degree programs are available to new and returning university students. The educator with an earned graduate degree, a master degree or Ph.D., can maximize the effort to locate the faculty application section on each school's website and move through the relatively easy steps to submit the needed evidence of academic achievement and classroom experience by repeatedly submitting the required information until a positive response is forthcoming from the individual college or university. Granted, it will take focus and determination to continually make applications for online adjunct positions, but the effort is certainly worth it in the face of growing academic unemployment and underemployment.
The primary hesitancy evidenced by educators curious about teaching online for online college degree programs is the validity of the academic activity, which generally means that the teachers are not sure the online professor jobs are real. In an honest attempt to banish these misgivings it is important to point out to academics with graduate degrees, a doctorate or master degree, that the validity of online teaching positions is confirmed by their presence. This means that all an interested teacher has to do to confirm that there are multiple openings teaching online college courses is to visit the websites of community colleges, state colleges, for-profit colleges and four-year universities. Of course, visiting the academic websites will require knowledge of how to use a personal computer to navigate the Internet, but any educator that can earn a graduate degree can become very agile on the Internet in a short period of time. This agility can permit the easy identification of the link on the first page of every community college, state university, for-profit college and four-year college website that leads to the faculty application section. Once an interested academic is in the application section the amount of information about online adjunct teaching openings will be more than sufficient to satisfy any concerns as to the availability of online teaching.
Far too many educators with the appropriate level of academic achievement required to teach college and university students enrolled in online college classes think teaching online is too complex since it involves computer mediated interaction. The truth of the matter is that the supposed complexity of online teaching dissipates upon close examination. For example, a quick look inside the faculty application section of a community college, state college or four-year university website will uncover an abundance of information about the online degree programs the school already offers its enrolled students. Further, in this section will be information concern the area of academic study that have open online adjunct jobs needing qualified online adjunct instructors to fill them. The end result of this exercise of analysis of the online teaching market will be a qualified assurance that distance education technology as it is applied to the educational needs of college and university students is actually generating a new academic career path of teachers needing an alternative to the physical classroom. The inquisitive educator with an earned graduate degree, a doctorate or master degree, can start applying for multiple online adjunct instructor positions immediately upon arrival at any college or university website.
