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The academic writing is on the wall, so to speak, and as wave after wave of teacher layoffs emerge it is now time to stop procrastinating about adjunct online teaching positions. The numbers of college degrees online grow semester after semester, and there is every reason to believe that as distance education technology become more available to the thousands of colleges, university and community colleges the need for online adjunct instructors academically qualified and technically adept will expand exponentially in the next decade. As schools offer a greater variety of the accredited distance learning degree there will be a migration out of the physical college and university classroom and into online accredited degree programs simply because it is much more cost-effective to deliver post-secondary instruction materials from a computer server. Of course, along with the change in the academic labor market there are several elements commonly associated with traditional adjunct college teaching that will change. For example, an online adjunct instructor is in business for herself. That means it will be necessary to constantly apply for new online teaching opportunities instead of assuming that once hired as a state employee, a faculty member at a state university or community college that has the college classes assigned to them by administrators. Instead, the online adjunct instructor must actually seek out additional online college courses.
It is important to have a rotational application strategy in place at the beginning of the search for online faculty positions with online bachelor degree programs and online masters degree programs. The best way to go about this task is to build out a spread sheet containing the web addresses of as many schools as possible. Keep in mind that there are over five thousand schools at the post-secondary level and every one of them now has some online accredited degree programs and it is certain that they will add additional online elementary teaching degrees, online business management degrees and online paralegal programs, to name but a few academic area of study, practically every day. To be frank, the academic administrators have no choice about deploying a wide range of accredited distance education programs since there is not now nor will there be enough budget funds to continue maintaining the costs of the campuses.
Of course, this transition from the physical campus to the online degree program can benefit the adjunct professor wishing to continue delivering post-secondary instruction for a living. In fact, it can be successfully argued that it is possible to considerably more online adjunct income than it is to possible to earn from teaching in a physical college or university classroom. The reason for this is that all of the online college courses are located on the Internet. This means it possible to teach for schools that are far distant in terms of physical distance. The traditional adjunct instructor can only teach classes for schools that are within driving distance of each other. Since there is no longer any doubt that distance education technology better serves academic administrators, new and return college and university students and prospective online adjunct instructors quite well, it is high time to start seeking adjunct online teaching positions and the prosperity they bring to the educator.