It is past time for traditional college teachers to make a point of connecting with online adjunct positions. It appears as if the faculty budgets at physical college and universities will simply not recover to their former economic glory in the foreseeable future, so the need to examine alternative college teaching avenues is greater than it has ever been in the last decade. Online bachelor degree programs and online masters degree programs are becoming very common on the post-secondary academic landscape as a result of the maturation of distance education technology over the last ten or fifteen years. New and returning college students, many of whom are non-traditional students with a multitude of family and employment obligations, are so eager to earn an elementary education degree online, an online bachelor degree in accounting or an online masters degree in school counseling that they flocked to the for-profit college that confer the bachelor online degree and the accredited online master degree in literal droves, and the traditional community colleges, state universities and four-year colleges are now seeking to emulate that academic and financial success.
The efforts on the part of traditional academic institutions will create many online adjunct faculty positions, which will need qualified individuals with the educational credentials appropriate to the level of post-secondary education and the technical skills to navigate a variety of digital interfaces each day. The online adjunct instructors who can master the time management skills and the digital navigation and computer skills required to teach just ten online college courses each day can prosper in ways that are interesting and challenging when compared to the poorly-paid, anxiety-ridden experience of teaching colleges students attending physical colleges and universities.
An online college teacher with ten online classes will probably earn about eighteen hundred dollars to two thousand dollars for each class. Many for-profit colleges have eleven-week quarters instead of the longer sixteen-week traditional college semester. Many community colleges that offer their students accredited online college degree programs have adopted the quarter system, or eleven-week semester. Even with various holidays, it is possible to hold four quarters during the calendar year. This means that if an online adjunct instructor is careful to work for online degree programs that operate on the quarter, eleven-week system and teaches a total of ten online courses for these schools, and each course pays two thousand dollars on average, the annual income from teaching these online college courses would be about eighty thousand dollars.
That may seem like an incredible income from online teaching and it is when compared to the practically insignificant opportunities available to college instructors at physical college instructors. However, it is possible to generate this level of online adjunct income, but it takes a very high level of attention and computer skill to complete the online teaching duties and associated administrative tasks. What is more, it possible to move from one geographic location to another when teaching online for online degree programs and take the online adjunct income at the same time.
August 15, 2010
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