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In these difficult economic times, many traditional college instructors teaching on an adjunct basis for a physical college or university and, for that matter, almost any teacher at any level of education now are looking for a change. While it sounds like a cliché, the simple fact of the matter is that you have to create the change you want, and the best way for a person with an earned graduate degree, a Ph. D. or master’s degree, to make change happen in the college teaching business change is to become an online college adjunct for multiple online bachelor degree programs and online master’s degree programs.
An online adjunct instructor can teach and coordinate as many as ten to twelve online college classes a day, and there are some online adjunct teacher who can manage up to fifteen online courses per day. Of course, to reach this level of online teaching competency requires a extremely polished set of time management skills and virtuoso-level digital navigation abilities. Still, half that many online college courses would provide an online college teacher with a very nice stream of multiple paychecks. Further, since all the online classroom activities such as interacting with students in the discussion forums, answering student questions about specific assignments and posting online class announcements and the administrative duties such as reports about student absences and problems with the software interface that represents the digital college campus take place on the Internet, the primary physical tool is an inexpensive laptop computer with wireless access.
In the past, a college adjunct teacher’s earning power was severely limited by his or her geographic location in terms of how many community colleges, colleges and universities were actually within physical driving distance. For those college instructors living in densely populated urban areas there might have been three or four school for which to teach. For those individuals living in sparsely populated rural areas there might be only one or two schools within driving distance and most of the money earned from teaching college students would be spent on transportation costs.
With the maturation of distance education technology over the last ten years it has become possible to use the Internet instead of a physical highway or freeway to arrive at the digital college campus that contains the online college campus. It is this non-physical method of going to college that is so attractive to new and returning college students who want to earn an associate degree in nursing online, an online accounting degree or one of several online elementary teaching degrees. It is this geographical freedom that is so beneficial to online adjunct instructors.
Imagine having the freedom to pick up your faculty office, your laptop, tuck it under your arm and sail out the door to an entirely different location from which to teach your online classes. Imagine teaching seven or ten online college classes for three or four online degree programs from the lobby of a beachfront hotel or from a café on a Paris boulevard or at the friendly coffeeshop across town. The possibilities are limitless when you create the change you want as an online college adjunct.