The problem facing most public school educators now is one of an economic nature. The numbers of adjunct college faculty members and outright unemployed secondary school teachers is almost beyond imagination. The reality is that the academic labor model is in the process of changing from one that is based in a physical classroom and into one that is located on the Internet in the form of online bachelor degree programs and online master’s degree programs, at least as post-secondary education is concerned and for underemployed and unemployed academics with a graduate degree the community college and university level of the academy is where the majority of online adjunct jobs are located right now. Those academics in need of a real living that possess a master’s degree or Ph.D. should know that teaching students earning a masters degree online or a bachelors degree online can go a long way to recover lost income from teaching. In fact, it is entirely possible to generate enough online adjunct income streams to produce a handsome sum of money each month, and in the process of earn a living by teaching online it is possible to pick and choose which geographic location to be in each day.
Frankly, it isn’t possible to make too much of a big deal out of the mobility offered by teaching online for a variety of online college degree programs. As more students enroll in online college courses that lead to an online masters degree in education, an online masters degree psychology or an online rn nursing degree the more need there will be for academically prepared and technically proficient online adjunct instructors that understand how to be academic entrepreneurs rather than mere state employees subject to the whims of state budget cuts. The public school teacher that grasps the full impact of technology on the education profession will immediately understand why online teaching is the future of teaching in general. After all, the current layoffs are a direct result of academic administrators’ desire to retain their own salaries by deciding that teachers are less of a positive investment, so to speak, than the physical plants, the college, community college and university campuses and the high school and elementary schools, are in the long term. In fact, the administrators may be forced to defund the faculty by the reality of the economy and its developing dynamic that insists that physical structures must be services over the intellectual capital represented by the classroom experience and educational achievements of the teachers. That said, the other issue that the academic administrators must face on a daily basis, and this is especially worrisome for post-secondary administrators, is the ballooning student bodies as more and more individual return to college in order to earn a degree. The way that teaching at the post-secondary level will be accomplished is to hire many online adjunct instructors qualified to teach students earning a masters degree online, for example, pay them a small amount of income to teach an individual class from their personal computers. However, the adjunct instructors will be free to teach online college classes from any place on the globe that offers access to the Internet, and they will be free to teach for multiple online college degree programs with a variety of colleges and community colleges, which will allow the online adjuncts to recover lost income.