There are still many questions about distance education and its effectiveness in terms of actually educating college and university students, and there are even more questions from traditional academics about the sustainability of an online teaching schedule in terms of a professional career. It is evident that new and returning post-secondary students are more than satisfied with the academic experience they encounter when they enroll in an online bachelor degree programs or online master degree programs because they enroll online in these online degree programs in ever increasing numbers each semester. At the same time, the number of new online adjunct jobs that the growing number of online college degree programs produces are beginning to appear to be quite attractive to traditional academics because the budget cuts to public education are making traditional faculty position quite scarce. It is these circumstances that should inspire an open mind about online teaching on the part of prospective online instructors. Plus, the continuation of teacher layoffs will ultimately reveal that the root cause of the decrease in employment prospects for educators on the traditional campus is the result of the increasing cost of maintaining the physical plants known as campus and classrooms. However, since student populations at community colleges, technical schools, state universities and for-profit colleges continue to enlarge each academic year the need for academically qualified and technically adroit online adjunct instructors will increase and offer open minded teachers a viable alternative to remaining in the physical classroom and waiting for the next round of layoffs.

Many educators are unsure if they have the ability to transition out of the physical classroom and into an online teaching schedule filled with multiple online college courses that can taught and coordinated from a personal computer. Those teachers should search for the online adjunct instructor inside themselves because even a recently graduated academic contains the intellectual skills necessary to build a successful online teaching schedule. Primarily, the reason there are so many available online adjunct jobs is because academic administrators recognize the cost-efficiency of offering post-secondary instruction on the internet instead of using a physical classroom for the same purpose. Of course, any analysis of the career opportunities offered to teachers must also address the number of college and university students enrolling in online classes in order to earn an academic degree from their personal computers at home and at work, and there is no longer any debate as to the enthusiasm students have for online degree programs. The administrators deployment of online college degree programs in practically every academic discipline, the rising student enrollment in online college courses and the need for online college professors willing to learn how to locate and apply for online adjunct faculty jobs combine to create a viable academic career path that can be accessed on the Internet provided academics dig down and locate the online instructor inside them that wants to escape the diminishing prospects on the traditional college and university campus by teaching online.

The focus and determination required to successfully build a viable online teaching schedule populated with up to a dozen online college courses can cause a traditional academic to quail before the prospect because such an undertaking may take as long as a year to complete. Plus, it will be necessary to continually evaluate the acquired online courses in terms of the online adjunct income derived from them when measured against the teaching requirement and the associated administrative duties. This additional activity is necessary because each community college, state university, for-profit college and technical school is free to pay its online adjunct instructors according to what they think is a fair amount and this individuality requires an online search for higher paying post-secondary academic institutions if the online adjunct instructor expects to earn a decent living from teaching online. Fortunately, the growth of online bachelor degree programs and online master degree programs means that are more available online adjunct professor jobs each semester, so the evaluation process is well worth the effort to employment it since there is every reason to think there is a more lucrative online college degree program to teach for at one or more of the thousands of schools offering distance learning to their enrolled college and university students. Ultimately, the right amount of enthusiasm on the part of prospective online adjunct college professor can generate a satisfying online teaching career.