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Over the last ten to twelve years distance education has grown from a mere curiosity to major force in the delivery of college-level instruction. Not so parenthetically, the numbers of online college jobs has grown in direct proportion to the online bachelor degree programs and online masters degree programs. The reason for this growth in online adjunct jobs is the cost effectiveness of online college classes for both the new and returning students and the college and university administrators. It is much cheaper for post-secondary academic institutions to offer their students, many of who are non-traditional students with family and job obligations outside school, a chance to earn an online bachelor degree or online master degree than it is for them to offer the same degree at a traditional college campus.
Of course, a qualified online adjunct instructor is need to teach each and every online college course, so as the schools provided more and more accredited online college degrees for the students to earn, they also immediately created a huge demand for people with graduate degrees to fill the ensuing online adjunct faculty positions. With practically free Internet access in most public places like coffee shops, hotel lobbies and public libraries plus inexpensive personal computers, it is possible for the individual with a strong sense of time management and a willingness to learn the successful navigation of various digital interfaces to teach a plethora of online college classes practically on the fly.
Although this will sound amazing to traditional college adjuncts stuck in one geographic location because it is necessary to travel in a personal vehicle from college campus to college campus in order to actually reach the classroom, an aggressive, alert online college teacher can coordinate online classrooms at eight to ten different colleges, universities, community colleges and for profit schools from a cheap laptop. Further, the online adjunct is welcome to move from place to place over a twenty four hour period provided each online course is attended to during that time period.
Online college jobs can provide a person with a graduate degree with a very healthy income. For example, imagine teaching eight online college courses full of students earning an online marketing degree, an online psychology degree or an online masters degree in school counseling, and each of the eight classes pays two thousand dollars. Since each course is eleven weeks in length, and many online courses provided by for-profit academic institutions run as little as five weeks in length, this means an online adjunct would earn sixteen thousand dollars over the eleven weeks. Since there are four quarters during the year, and some classes run end-to-end, this represents about sixty four thousand dollars in income from online teaching every year from a laptop.
Granted, teaching this many online courses at once would require a great deal of attention to detail, and it would necessitate a commitment of ten or eleven hours a day, but the financial potential from such an income is available for those who want to make the effort to acquire that many online college jobs.