Educators that still teach in physical classrooms on traditional campuses wonder if it is possible to commingle traditional teaching and online teaching to the financial benefit of the teacher. This is understandable since the threat of additional teacher layoffs is very real as there seems to be no end to the budget cuts to public education. The traditional academic can locate and apply for two or three online adjunct positions without taking away from the effort required to manage the teaching duties and administrative responsibilities demanded on the physical campus. In fact, learning how to locate and then manage a part time online teaching schedule while teaching in a physical classroom is very productive because there is little doubt that distance education technology is a reality that academics wishing to continue to earning a decent living from working in public education must confront and master in the very immediate future. The best way to start commingling traditional teaching and online teaching is to make as many applications as possible each day in the faculty application section of community college, state university and for-profit school websites. While the application process for online teaching positions will require extra effort on the part of the prospective online adjunct instructor, the result will be well worth it in the event more teacher layoffs make access to the physical campus more difficult over time.

Academics with earned graduate degrees can now safely assume that applying for online teaching jobs is assuredly positive in terms of career objectives and financial health. The availability of distanced education technology is causing academic administrators to deploy more online bachelor degree programs and online master degree programs every academic semester. This should come as no surprise to any alert educator since the expense associated with maintaining the physical classroom on the traditional campus is no longer attractive in the face of continual decrease in budget funds assigned to public education. It is possible for an aggressive online adjunct instructor with a earned master degree or doctorate to apply for a dozen online faculty openings each day because every one of the thousands of post-secondary academic institutions now offer their enrolled students some form of distance learning. Of course, as more online college courses are offered to new and returning college students the more online adjunct instructors will be needed to the classes. It will take some time to actually build an online teaching schedule that generates enough online adjunct income each calendar year to replace a salary earned from providing instruction in the physical classroom, but the effort will be well worth it since distance learning programs are becoming the engine that pulls post-secondary education into the future.

The shadow of teacher layoffs on the traditional campus is creating a need for academics to take a fresh look at jobs teaching online college courses. Obviously, the authority derived from taking control of the teaching schedule can have a very positive effect on an educator feeling threatened by budget cuts, and online teaching provides a teacher with an earned graduate degree the opportunity to increase the number of online classes in an online teaching schedule or decrease them according to financial goals. The best way to start acquiring online teaching positions is to apply for any many online adjunct faculty openings as possible each day in the faculty application sections of post-secondary websites. Every community college, state university, four-year state college, technical school and for-profit college offers its enrolled students online college courses, and there are more online bachelor degree programs and online master degree programs every academic year. This means there is every reason to believe that an aggressive application strategy can eventually produce an online teaching schedule that will generate as much online adjunct income as can be earned by continuing to teaching in a traditional academic environment.

There is nothing esoteric about teaching online, but too many academics seem to think that logic is misplaced in the effort to transition out of the physical classroom and into a variety of online college classes that can be taught from a personal computer. The current thinking about distance education technology on the part of academic administrators is located in the economic impact the budget cuts to public education are making on the traditional academic industry and the skyrocketing cost of maintain the physical plants known as campuses. The logic of distance learning is that it is far less expensive to distribute post-secondary academic instruction on the Internet from a computer server than it is to continue offering the same academic instruction in a physical classroom. The new and returning college students understand the logic inherent in the convenience of earning an academic degree from work and at home from their laptop computers instead of driving a vehicle at odd hours of the day and evening to remote physical location. These two logic’s combine to produce many online adjunct openings that must be filled by academics with earned graduate degrees, a master degree or doctorate, as more online bachelor degree programs and online master degree programs as deployed in an attempt to satisfy the education needs of swelling post-secondary student populations with less costly alternatives to the physical classroom. Additionally, these circumstances make it possible for a prospective online adjunct instructor to use logic to construct a sustainable online teaching schedule.