There are any number of very good reasons why an academic, a traditional adjunct college faculty member, for example, or unemployed secondary teacher with an earned a graduate degree, a Ph.D. or masters degree, should search for an accredited distance learning program or two or three to teach for now that distance education technology is in full swing at most colleges, universities and community colleges. The numbers of college and university students enrolling in online college courses they can access from the personal computers is exploding every semester, and the academic administrators responsible for figuring out how to continue running the various postsecondary academic institutions on diminishing budget funds could not be more delighted with this turn of events. This is all very good news for educators seeking a way to earn extra money or completely replace a lost income from the delivery of educational instruction. The layoffs are reaching a fever pitch and there does not seem to be any real alternative for an intellectual with a graduate degree if he or she wishes to continue teaching for a living. Granted, many educators with the appropriate academic credentials, a graduate degree, are trying to produce a living wage by being traditional college faculty members, but the vast majority of them soon find out this is an exercise in futility. The reason for this is that the administrators are not willing to pay more than a pittance to a traditional college adjunct professor to teach an individual college course. This situation is made worse by the fact that in order to gain an additional income from teaching college and university students on an adjunct basis the adjunct instructor must physically drive a vehicle to another available local college or university campus. In many rural areas this is impossible because there may not be another community college, state college or four-year university within driving distance. The solution to this problem is to learn how to teach online for the various online college degree programs and online master degree programs.

The effort to locate potential online faculty positions with online college degree programs is well worth ii since the only piece of equipment an prospective online adjunct instructor needs to do this is a personal computer and access to the Internet. Every post-secondary academic institution now has a website on the Internet, and on each school’s website is a link located on the front page that will lead the prospective online adjunct instructor to the faculty application section of the school’s site. Since there are over five thousand for-profit colleges, community colleges, state universities, four-year colleges and technical schools with distance education technology running right now, it would be very difficult if the right amount of effort is made to not acquire several online college courses to teach every day. The well-organized online adjunct instructor can easily coordinate an online teaching portfolio of eight to twelve online college courses with several online degree programs. After all, college students today find it very reasonable to use their computers to earn an online MBA degree, an online criminal Justice degree or an online master in teaching. Given these realities and the changes in the academic labor model, there really is no reason for any academic with a Ph.D. or masters degree in hand not to make the effort to find at least one accredited distance learning program to teach online for right now.