| There are over eighteen million students attending | | | | six-figure range, but they do not sleep at lot. Online |
| community colleges, four-year colleges, state | | | | teaching can be lucrative in a variety of ways not |
| universities and for-profit online post-secondary | | | | directly related to the actual teaching. |
| academic institutions today, and more and more of | | | | For example, online adjunct instruction does not |
| those college students require an online college | | | | require a personal vehicle and there are no public |
| instructor to lead their classes. Distance education | | | | transportation, streetcars and buses, necessary to |
| technology has matured to the point that it would be | | | | manage the online classes. The best way to quantify |
| hard to imagine a school that is not offering online | | | | this economic aspect of online instruction is to add up |
| college classes to its new and returning students. | | | | how much money is spent driving a car to and from |
| In fact, it is almost guaranteed that the lower cost | | | | the various college campuses every day. If a college |
| of offering online college classes will force colleges | | | | instructor teaches at several traditional institutions |
| and universities to move as many of their | | | | that are some distance from each other a pretty |
| undergraduate classes online as possible in the next | | | | penny of the money earned from teaching is eaten |
| few years. The migration from traditional, on-ground | | | | up in sheer transportation costs. An online faculty |
| education to digitally-accessed education represents a | | | | member only needs a computer and an Internet |
| major shift in how a college education will be earned, | | | | connection to function in the classroom. |
| and it concurrently represents a major shift in how | | | | Today, a perfectly serviceable laptop can be had for |
| almost anyone with a graduate degree in a core area | | | | less than four hundred dollars and almost any coffee |
| of academic study such as English, math, history, | | | | shop of public library has free wireless Internet |
| psychology or Information Technology can find ample | | | | service. Now compare that cost of teaching online |
| opportunities to earn a very nice living by teaching in | | | | with the almost endless expense of owning and |
| multiple part time online teaching positions. It should | | | | maintaining an automobile that is sure to break down |
| go without saying that the first step to landing an | | | | from all the miles put on it driving from one campus |
| online teaching position is to become familiar with the | | | | to the next. Another economic benefit to being an |
| needs of the over five thousand institutions of higher | | | | online college adjunct is that of geographic mobility. |
| learning. | | | | This mobility is of paramount importance since it can |
| First and foremost, the schools are almost literally | | | | transcend geography, which means the adjunct can |
| being overrun with new and returning college | | | | move about the globe freely and still earn a living |
| students who have become unemployed or know | | | | wage. This geographic mobility could become very |
| with relative certainty that they stand a very good | | | | important if and when the area I which the adjunct |
| chance of becoming unemployed. These students | | | | lives become too expensive or is prone to natural |
| want to improve their chances of earning a decent | | | | disasters like hurricanes or earthquakes. Thus, the |
| living again when the recession lifts, and they plan on | | | | income potential of online adjunct faculty |
| making that happen by attending college in order to | | | | employment should be measure in more than just the |
| earn a degree or by attending a community college in | | | | payment for teaching an online college class. |
| order to acquire technical training. In either case, it is | | | | Online College Instructor Application Strategy |
| absolutely necessary that they take a certain number | | | | While it is true that teaching online college classes for |
| of core college classes. | | | | a distance learning online college requires a minimum |
| The person with a graduate degree in these core | | | | of a graduate degree, it is also true that one needs |
| areas of study can certainly take advantage of the | | | | to be hired to teach online in order to start earning |
| growing need for instructors who can use a | | | | money from it. Therefore, an application strategy is |
| computer hooked to the Internet to teach college | | | | quite important to the overall process, and the |
| students taking these requisite courses. This growing | | | | application strategy is one that will be ongoing since |
| need for education professionals with technology and | | | | the number of community colleges and other |
| academic skill sets is creating a very definite career | | | | post-secondary institutions offering online classes will |
| path for those seeking to become an online college | | | | only grow over time. |
| instructor. | | | | First, gather all the documentation you will need |
| Online College Instructor Income Potential | | | | during the application process. This includes a cover |
| Obviously, each school will have its own formula for | | | | letter that contains an expressed intent to teach |
| deciding how much to pay an online adjunct instructor | | | | online undergraduate classes since it is these classes |
| to teach a course and anyone who teaches online | | | | that have the most students in them. Along with the |
| for any length of time will realize that there isn't any | | | | cover letter, a resume, not a vita, is a necessary |
| arguing the point with the school's administrators. The | | | | element of the process. A third and very important |
| only real option for an online adjunct teaching math | | | | element is scanned in unofficial copies of all graduate |
| or English, and it is these two core academic subjects | | | | transcripts. All three of these application elements |
| that will have the vast majority of new and returning | | | | should be kept in a handy place on the computer's |
| students, is to decide if a school that pays fifteen | | | | desktop since they need to be in motion, so to |
| hundred dollars to teach an online college class for | | | | speak, at all times. |
| fifteen weeks is a better deal than a school that | | | | The academic job boards are always a good place to |
| pays two thousand two hundred dollars to teach the | | | | search for possible online college course to teach, but |
| same course for eight weeks. | | | | it is a better idea to apply directly to each of the |
| Much of the evaluation process for one or another | | | | over five thousand academic institutions that have |
| school depends on the demands of the course. | | | | web sites on the Internet. Just keep submitting |
| Eventually, the alert online adjunct instructor will learn | | | | applications to teach online as an adjunct and sooner |
| to teach at multiple accredited online degree | | | | or later a positive response will be generated by the |
| programs at once so that if one academic institution | | | | effort to make contact. Keep in mind that the |
| becomes too demanding it can be replaced by | | | | schools have a lot more students than teachers who |
| another school that is more profitable for the adjunct. | | | | can master the digital classroom and teach college |
| In general, it is possible to make fifty to sixty | | | | materials in a professional manner. Sooner or later, it |
| thousand dollars a year through online adjunct faculty | | | | will become easier to see the outstanding |
| employment, and there are those online instructors | | | | opportunities that being an online college instructor |
| who laser-focused time management skills and cutting | | | | for multiple colleges online offers those with graduate |
| edge technology abilities that can earn in the | | | | degrees in need of a decent living. |