Any academic at the post-secondary level or the secondary level considering online teaching a career choice should immediately act on that consideration. The full scale deployment of distance education technology by community colleges, for-profit colleges, state universities and four-year colleges, which means all academic institutions that fall under the heading of public education, means there are multiple online teaching openings for eager academics. Accredited distance learning programs such as online bachelor degree programs and online master’s degree programs are sprouting up all over the internet and college and university students are delighted with the opportunity to enroll in online college courses using their personal computers. This arrangement is very positive for unemployed and underemployed educators at all levels of the academy since every online college class must be taught by a qualified online adjunct instructor with an earned graduate degree. Further, the administrators of the academic institutions are forced into using the Internet as a vehicle with which they adequately address the educational needs and demands of the student populations that are growing larger each passing day as result of the declining economy and the resulting intractable unemployment. As a result of all these individual yet interconnected circumstances the teachers that need either to entirely replace incomes lost to the evaporation of public funds required to finance public education or to supplement a income from low paid teaching in physical college and university classrooms can significantly improve their economic lives by beginning a systematic application strategy for online college faculty positions with online college degree programs.
The most effective approach by far to landing as many online adjunct jobs as possible is to seek out online teaching openings at the websites of the over five thousand colleges, universities and community colleges. Every post-secondary academic institution today offers at least some online college courses to their students today. These schools will offer even more online college degree programs each semester each academic year. There is now no avoiding the economic efficacy of distance education technology when comparing the cost of it to the cost of maintaining the physical plant known as the campus. Of course, this means that administrators will do everything in their power to create more online bachelor degree programs and online master’s degree programs that allow students to use their personal computers to earn an online finance degree, an online nursing degree and an online masters in education. Obviously, each new online degree programs means more employment opportunities for teaching jobs online and thus more possible online adjunct income for online adjunct instructors. In addition to the income possibilities of a full time online teaching schedule there is the additional benefit of mobility. An online adjunct college professor can teach six to eight online courses from practically any place on the globe as a result of the ready access to the Internet. This means that the persistent accumulation of online teaching openings can result in the freedom to live where the online adjunct instructor likes for as long as the online teacher likes and still earn a very decent living from teaching college and university students.