Like it or not, the academy at all levels is undergoing tremendous changes and they have to be confronted by academics still needing to earn a living. Of course, traditional adjunct college instructors are not surprised by these developments since they have been falling further and further behind each semester as a result of the administrators realizing that there is no real reason to pay adjunct professors in physical college and university classrooms anything approaching a living wage. Now, educators at the secondary level and below, many of who have earned graduate degrees, are being let go in massive numbers. In both cases, the bright spot on the academic horizon is that online adjunct instructor positions are up for grabs. This many sound like bold talk to a lot of intellectuals that have depended on a steady public education pay check for decades, but the experienced traditional adjunct college teacher know all too well that the post-secondary level of the academy is populated primarily by low paid, temporarily employed academics that are limited to teaching at the few physical campuses within driving distance of each other. However, distance education technology is being employed by the thousands of colleges, universities, community colleges and for-profit colleges because it is much less expensive to deliver instruction to college and university students from a computer server than it is to deliver the same instruction for college and university students in a physical structure located on a traditional campus.
The presence of online bachelor degree programs and online masters degree programs is both deep and wide today, but while the distribution of online college degree programs such as these by academic administrations is of great benefit to the economic life of the schools themselves and they are a real boon to college and university students that would rather use their personal computers and the Internet to earn an online degree instead of driving a motor vehicle to a remote physical campus for the same purpose, they create a genuine need for trainable, academically and technically prepared online adjunct instructor to fill the growing numbers of online adjunct instructor positions. After all, teachers have to teach the online college classes and the college and university students enrolled in them in order to earn an online masters degree in education, a criminal justice associate degree online or an online bachelor of nursing degree.
The academic with a Ph.D. or master’s degree that want to either return to the classroom or the traditional adjunct instructor that want to begin earning an actual living form the intellectual effort required to teach college and university students should immediately start applying to teach for online bachelor degree programs. The online adjunct psychology jobs, online adjunct English instructor positions and online adjunct criminal justice jobs are really out there and an online teaching portfolio with five to ten online college courses in it can pay handsomely throughout the entire calendar year. Make no mistake that the future of post-secondary teaching is on the Internet in online degree programs and the alert, aggressive instructor can certainly revive a flagging academic career by making as many online faculty applications as possible every day.