The amount of income that can be earned from teaching a single online college class or even three or four online college courses is important to consider, but what is even more interesting is that there are so many online degree programs now in place on the internet that it is possible to add or subtract online classes form the online teaching schedule based solely on the amount the pay the online adjunct instructor. For example, every post-secondary academic institution is now fully committed to employing distance education technology as a way replace expensive college and university classrooms. The result of this adoption of distance learning by academic administrators will be an infinitely expanding number of online faculty positions that must be filled by academically qualified and technically proficient online adjunct instructors. The alert educators will take advantage of this growing academic employment market by learning how to offer an intellectual and technical set of skills to the thousands of college and universities that need them.

The best approach to building an income from online adjunct instruction is to collect all the appropriate documents, graduate transcripts, letters of recommendation and a philosophy of teaching, in an electronic form so that they can be quickly and effortlessly submitted to the digital interface located in the application section of each academic website. Of course, given the bureaucratic hesitancy inherent in any state school such as university or community college, a delay can be expected when anticipating a positive response in the form of an invitation for a voice interview and inclusion in the mandatory training every new online instructor must complete. These delays should not slow down the application activities of an online college professor because it only after hundreds of applications for online teaching positions have been completed that there will be any online classes offered by one school or another.

After a few online classes are being taught, it will be time to evaluate each one in the light of the amount of money the college or university pays for the individual class and how much administrative activity is expected by the program leaders. For example, a traditional sixteen week class that pays fifteen hundred dollars will produce less weekly online adjunct income than a similar online class that lasts only six week. The best arrangement for the online instructor is to submit online faculty applications is to schools that offer six week online courses and replace the online classes that do not pay as well. There is also the issue of how much time the administrative tasks take each day. Some online degree programs requires constant interaction online with the enrolled students and some schools are satisfied to just have the online instructor answer the students’ questions about the individual assignments. The perfect mix for teaching online from the perspective of actually earning a living is a short time span for the class and a minimum of administrative tasks. Frankly, the intellectual requirements on both students and educators involved in distance learning programs is the same as that encountered in the physical classroom, but the control an online college professor has over the size of the online teaching schedule and the online adjunct income it generates is a far cry from the stress caused by waiting on the traditional campus for the next round of educator layoffs.

The search strategy for discovering available online adjunct jobs is to use a personal computer to navigate the Internet to the websites of the thousands of community colleges, state universities, technical schools, for-profit colleges and four-year state colleges. Each of these academic institutions already offers their students an opportunity to participate in distance learning. In the case of community college and technical schools there are numerous online classes being offered to student populations and these courses must be taught by an online instructor with at least a master degree. An unemployed teacher with an earned graduate degree will be able to construct an online teaching schedule populated with multiple online classes simply by continually making applications in the faculty application section of each school’s website.

While it will be extremely easy for a career academic seeking to transition out of the physical classroom to fall into a state of hopeless resignation over the current budget battles being conducted at the expense of teachers, there is every reason not to view the emergence of online college courses with intellectual distaste and an emotional attitude of avoidance. To be blunt in an effort to illuminate reality, there probably isn’t any time in the foreseeable future when teachers in public education will regain their financial status on the traditional campus. However, it is possible to earn a full time online adjunct income that can equal or even surpass the income lost in the traditional academic setting. The vast network of community colleges, and there are thousands of them today with the majority being in states such as Texas and California, is an excellent market for prospective online adjunct college professors. The way to apply for online teaching positions with a community college is to first locate website of the individual schools, identify the link on the first page and follow it to the application section. It will take some time to learn how to quickly spot the links, but after a week or so of constantly looking they will start appearing easily with each visit. The more important aspect of this process of submitting evidence of academic achievement and classroom experience is gaining a level of mastery over the actual interfaces that accommodate the submission of academic credentials in the faculty sections. This is far more difficult to standardize because each community college can have a different way of permitting prospective online instructors to enter application information for online teaching jobs, and many of these sections are not well maintained by the staff that manages the website.

In an effort to provide examples of these faculty application sections the following three examples are offered to readers.

Barstow Community College

Butte College

Cabrillo College

As can be seen the interaction with each interface needs rapid assessment and a willingness to endure new actions with each application. However, the observant online adjunct instructor will recognize that the majority of the time the same materials are requested for the application process. Simply by pushing forward the invitations to attend the mandatory training session every newly-hired online adjunct must complete before being put in an online college courses will begin arriving in the e-mail inbox. Granted, it may take some schools as long as a year before responding and there is every reason for the academic wishing to teach online full time to repeatedly apply to the same community college until some response is made by the academic institution, but the time and focus is well worth it since online learning programs and online teaching positions will continue to appear with the end of each academic semester.

The it should be easy for an intellectual with a sense of the educational trends to observe that these non-traditional college and university students would prefer to earn a college degree from their personal computers at home or at work simply because it is less stressful on their time and physical energy than having to drive a motor vehicle to a remote college or university campus and sit for long periods of time listening to a lecture in a drafty physical classroom, and then having to retrace their steps in order to return home to prepare meals and wash clothes or go back to work at a job. Further, the advantages students perceive online college degree programs provide them can also benefit academics wishing to discover a way to develop a hedge against the distinct possibility of additional reductions in the traditional teacher workforce. In fact, an investigation of the evolving application of distance education technology might lead a teacher to decide that teaching college students from a personal computer in practically any spot in the world is preferable to remaining in what appears to be a failing physical educational environment. It could be that it occurs to an academic with a graduate degree or an academic with a bachelor degree willing to complete the course work required to earn a master degree that online teaching positions are actually a very attractive alternative to continuing to teaching in a physical classroom on a traditional campus.

Overall, the primary benefit of teaching online is the ability to work in any geographic location that affords the online adjunct instructor access to the Internet. The reason for this enhanced mobility is that all the academic interaction between the students enrolled in online college courses and the online adjunct instructors that teach them takes place on the Internet. Further, it is possible today for an online degree programs to pay the online instructors regardless of the physical location of the online teaching professional. It is also quite important for prospective online instructors to note that it is not necessary to drive to and from a physical college or university campus every day in order to earn a living from teaching. Given the rise in prices for fuel and the decline in salaries for educators in public schools this lack of any need to spend money on transportation is significant in many ways.

It may be difficult for an educators anchored in one town or city to imagine exactly how online teaching can provide mobility. After all, it is difficult envision a new lifestyle since decades of repetition often blur the vision of a different way of teaching. It is possible for an online college professor to tuck an inexpensive laptop computer under the arm, fly to another country and resume teaching upon landing in the new destination. This travel can be engaged in on any day of the week, and with the availability of wireless networks in airport lounges and waiting area it is even possible to teach online courses during layovers. This is an unprecedented state of affairs for teachers. However, as each academic year ends and another begins the opportunity to earn a full time living or a part time living from teaching online becomes more viable.

The amount that can be earned from online teaching for post-secondary academic institutions varies according to the online adjunct instructor’s technical skills and the commitment to finding the online college courses that generate the greatest amount of online adjunct income for the effort required by the community college or for-profit college. The optimal formula for determining the income value of a given online class is the length of the class and how much the school pays the online adjunct to teach the class. For example, an online courses that lasts only eight weeks and pay eighteen hundred dollars will generate more weekly online teaching income than an online course that pay the same amount for sixteen weeks of instruction. This may seem obvious at first, but it very important to evaluate each online course in the online teaching schedule by the same measurements. After all, an educators needs to earn a living to survive and in this day and age that living needs to be worth the time and intellectual effort required to obtain it. Ultimately, teaching online is more about academic entrepreneurship than it is about having a teaching job.

Unfortunately, this entrepreneurial aspect of online teaching for online college degree programs is simply not part of the course of study in graduate school. This lack of information about how to actually earn a living from teaching leaves many academic today without any direction to turn once the income the traditional academic work goes missing after a massive layoff. To remedy this lack of knowledge it is necessary to come to grips with the current academic employment landscape and to understand how the changes in academic labor are now impact the reconfiguration of the academic labor model. First, there is no genuine will to continue funding traditional academic positions at any level of the academy. In the past, a competent educator could expect to work on one campus for decades and then retire with a healthy pension. That is no long the case for the most part. Today, college and university administrators want to hire academics on a part time basis to teach for a fixed sum of money for each individual online class, and these administrators are quite sure that distance education technology is much less expensive to use as a primary vehicle for the delivery of educational instruction than the physical classroom that has been in use for many years. To put a fine point on it, the online adjunct instructor coordinating an online teaching schedule populated with a variety of carefully chosen online faculty positions is the academic labor model that is now being presented to academics with graduate degrees as the academic labor model of the moment and of the future.

Fortunately, distance education technology has matured to the point that it is possible to supply college and university students with a wide variety of online bachelor degree programs and online master degree programs that they can participate in from their personal computers at home and at work. The speed at which online college classes are appearing each academic semester is almost impossible to measure simply because the drive to create them is being fueled by the need to meet the educational needs of swelling students populations with fewer budgetary dollars, and the administrators at community colleges, state universities, four-year state colleges, technical schools and four-profit colleges know full well that their incomes depend on figuring out how to provide online college degree programs in practically every academic discipline as soon as possible without asking for additional physical space in which to teach them. The alternative, therefore, of directing enrolled students into online degree programs is extremely attractive because there is literally no limit to how many online college classes can be fielded every semester and eventually the cost of these online programs is substantially less than the traditional classroom since computer servers do not need the level of maintenance a physical building and the grounds around them need every day.

Even with this emerging shift in the academic labor model, which is occurring as a direct result of the same economic issues that are changing how college and university students earn an academic degree, in the faces of educators with decades of classroom experience, there is still far too little recognition of just how to harness distance education as a way to make a real living. Basically, if an educator with a modest level of computer skill can learn to navigate the Internet efficiently enough to quickly locate the faculty application section of the thousands of post-secondary academic websites it is possible to submit evidence of classroom experience and academic achievement. Of course, it will be necessary to submit online faculty application materials dozens of times a day for weeks on end, but this activity will eventually generate at least a few invitations to participate in a telephone interview and the mandatory training every new online adjunct instructor must successfully complete before being placed in an online class. While making all of these applications for online faculty positions may seem like an enormous amount of work in the beginning, it will bear fruit later as the online teaching schedule begins to fill out and the analysis period begins to become a significant part of an online teaching career.

An online teaching schedule can be populated with multiple online adjunct jobs. It is possible for a technically adroit online adjunct instructor to manage a dozen online college classes at one time. Alternately, it is possible to teach online part time for one or two online bachelor degree programs while continuing to teach in a physical classroom. In both cases, the online adjunct instructor needs to learn how to analyze the individual online university classes from the perspective of the educators, not the community college or for-profit college. The individual online courses should be examined in terms of how much it pays and how much administrative work is required by the online degree program. For example, a six week course that pays the online instructor a flat fee of two thousand dollars is more profitable than a similar course that last the traditional sixteen weeks and pays the same amount. The goal any online college professor should pursue is to acquire any many online classes as possible that pay the most money for the teaching involved and the associated administrative tasks required for each student. This analysis should begin with the first online courses an academic teaches from a computer.

Naturally, before an educator can teach online for online bachelor degree programs or online master degree programs, it is first necessary to find the place to make applications for online adjunct instructor jobs with the thousands of post-secondary academic institutions. While there are several academic employment websites that daily provide information about available online teaching jobs, a more efficient and effective approach is to contact he schools directly and make an application in the faculty application section of the site. It is fairly easy to locate the faculty application section because each academic website has an identifiable link on the first page that leads to the section that will accept academic credentials. Once the link named employment, jobs or faculty position has been accessed the application sections will be gained, and there will be considerable information about the different areas of study in the school schedule that are already being offered in the form of online degree programs. It is important to understand that every academic discipline that can be offered in the form of an online college degree programs will eventually be deployed by academic administrators.

The alert, prospective online adjunct instructor will continue to submit online faculty applications to community colleges, state universities and for-profit colleges until an invitation is received to attend the training program. Then, after a few online classes are in the online teaching schedule the online college professor should continue to submit applications to teach online to additional colleges and universities. After all, the best way to analyze an ongoing class in an online college degree program is to have several more to use as a system of comparison.

The budgetary funds needed to pay traditional faculty salaries seem to continue to decrease with each passing academic year. The academic with a master degree or Ph.D. needs to recognize the benefits of being able to continue teaching at the post-secondary level of the academy in the event that the salary earned from teaching in the physical classroom on the traditional campus disappears during the next round of budget cuts.

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.

The college students have demonstrated an overwhelming enthusiasm for online college courses that they can participate in from their laptops at home or at work. This makes sense in this day and age because it is much more cost efficient to earn an online law degree, an online nursing degree or an online engineering degree from a computer accessing online classes than it is to travel in a costly vehicle to a remote community college, state college or four year university campus and sit for hours, then use the same expensive car or truck to return home or work. As more online college degree programs become available the more students will enroll in them, and eventually it should be expected that earning an online college degree will become the normal route for matriculation to an online bachelor degree or online master’s degree.

The alert academic with a graduate degree, a Ph.D. or master’s degree, will quickly recognize the lay of the academic landscape given their emerging educational circumstances. For example, there really isn’t any intelligent expectation of returning to the physical classroom for secondary and elementary public school teachers, and there is any realistic expectation of a traditional tenure-track college positions on the part of current adjunct college professors barely earning a living form teaching college and university students on a physical campus. Therefore, it is entirely reasonable to view teaching online college courses as a viable alternative to not teaching at all or teaching for so little in compensation that it is hardly worth the effort.

In order to do this it is necessary to learn how to use a personal computer effectively in the search for online degree programs that offer online adjunct jobs to qualified college teachers. While the numbers of online adjunct jobs grows daily, the competition for those jobs increases in tandem. As more and more traditional college teachers come to the realization that they will continue to live in poverty if they do not start teaching online the individual college teachers who do not understand that academic entrepreneurship is absolutely necessary we left behind to join the long gray line of the unemployed.

If that sounds harsh, it is because the reality of employment at the postsecondary level is changing in ways that simply could not be imagined a decade ago. The simple economic fact is that traditional colleges and universities are broke, and the college and university administrators have no hesitation in engaging in mass layoffs of adjunct faculty members in order to retain the little cash that is left in the budget to operate the physical plants known as college and university campuses. Therefore, it is wise for a college instructor to strike while the iron is hot, so to speak, and start immediately applying for online faculty positions at the thousands of colleges, universities and community colleges that offer their student populations and opportunity to learn an online degree.

On a positive note, new and returning college students are more than happy to have the opportunity to earn an online accounting degree, a online registered nurse degree or an online social work degree from their personal computers at home and work. This means that online adjunct instructors who pursue the application process on a daily basis will have a growing marketplace to which they can sell their academic and technical expertise. The bottom line is that the colleges and universities actually need individuals with earned graduate degrees, a master’s degree or PhD, to teach the multiple online college classes they offer their students.

One of the major benefits of teaching online is that it is possible to carry the online college classes and the various online college degree programs to any geographic location because all the academic work required to earn an online degree in to teach the course material in the online college classes is on the Internet. The time is now to start earning a healthy online adjunct income by teaching online college courses for online university degree programs.

The reason this is necessary is that there has been a sea change in how higher education material is delivered college students. The traditional college adjunct instructor is a relic of the past, and the academic future belongs to online adjunct instructors teaching online for three or four accredited online university degree programs. This means that in addition to the academic credentials a person must earn before being allowed to teach college students earning an online college nursing degree or an online degree in business management, it is mandatory for a person with a graduate degree to master the computer skills necessary to move smoothly in and out of many online college courses each and every day.

Many college teachers are dismayed at the idea of teaching online, but a few have come to understand that the benefits of distance education technology for college teachers are far superior to those available to adjunct instructors who continue to teach in the physical college classroom. For example, an aggressive online adjunct instructor can easily earn a full-time income, fifty thousand dollars a year to ninety thousand dollars a year, from multiple online faculty positions by controlling the teaching schedule so it incorporates ten to fifteen online college courses.

Granted, it takes laser-like focus and a commitment to learning how to improve digital navigation skills to earn this level of online adjunct income, but is easy to demonstrate that if a college instructor has control over how many classes were taught at one time the online adjunct income can increase on an exponential basis.

One of the first things that you need prospected online adjunct instructor must grasp is that he or she is selling a complex skill set to a huge market. This means that the online adjunct instructor is actually an academic entrepreneur as opposed to a faculty employee. Since online college courses are available at any time of the day or night is entirely the prerogative of the online adjunct college teacher when to teach.

Further, since access to the online college degree programs is acquired with inexpensive personal computers such as a laptop, there is no need for an online adjunct instructor teaching for an online bachelor degree program or an online master degree program to spend any money at all on a personal vehicle. The traditional college teacher, however, needs to physically travel between college and university campuses, which mean it is necessary to stand a good portion of the low pay for teaching at a traditional academic institution on an automobile or truck just to arrive at the door of the college classroom.

The combination of increased opportunity to earn more online adjunct income by adding more online college courses to the teaching schedule and the lack of need to spend any part of that online adjunct income on mechanical transportation combines to make online teaching for a variety of online degree programs a very smart financial move on the part of individual with an earned graduate degree who wants to teach college students for a living.

In fact, even tenured college professors are being shown the door because their benefits packages cannot be fully funded and sustained under the current economic circumstances. As a result, traditional colleges and universities are making great strides to deploy accredited online college degree programs in an attempt to enjoy the financial success realized over the last decade by for-profit colleges that confer the bachelors degree online and the online masters degree.

As time goes on, more and more online degree programs will appear and more opportunities for online adjunct instructors will be available to those individuals who have mastered tested time management techniques and who possess superior computer skills. While it is possible to acquire eight to ten online faculty positions, it is necessary to have the digital navigation skills required to move in and out of that many online college courses every day. However, it is not absolutely necessary to abandon traditional college teaching in order to teach online. A college instructor who understands the development of online degree programs can create what would be a blend teaching schedule that incorporates both physical classes and online classes.

In this case there would be a geographic restriction due to the requirement of actually appearing physically in the physical university classroom. This geographic anchor represented by the traditional college campus is a serious consideration for any college teacher who wishes to harness the total mobility of online teaching. Since all teaching duties and administrative tasks required by accredited online college degree programs exist on the Internet, it is possible for a online adjunct instructor to simply pick up the online teaching schedule and transport it to a new physical location. This means that the online college teacher can travel to a beach in Mexico or a coffee shop in London without losing any of the online adjunct income.

This also means that it is not necessary to remain an isolated rural location. Traditional college teachers genuinely are stuck in a geographic area occupied by the college or university. This mobility offer online teaching or online degree programs may become very important in the future. After all, control over the cost of living is very important these days, and the ability to move physically from an expensive city to a less expensive and more is not to be ignored in these parlous economic times.

The vast majority of college teachers now working on adjunct basis did not participate in online degree programs in order to earn their academic credentials. It is important for a prospective online adjunct instructor to become very familiar with how accredited online college degree programs function in terms of their benefits for the online instructor. For example, an aggressive online college teacher can scale the online faculty positions in a teaching schedule up or down at will, which means online college courses can be added or subtracted to the online teaching schedule according to how much online adjunct income the college instructor wants to earn at any given time.

This scalability of the teaching schedule is of great value to the person with an earned graduate degree because it is a simple matter to either accept or decline offered online college courses in order to increase the amount of income or decrease the teaching load. Further, the online adjunct teacher does not have to wait or a department head or Dean to offer or not offer classes to teach.

This ownership of the teaching schedule, so to speak, transforms the college teacher from a college or university employee into an academic entrepreneur with the power to control the teaching career arc. The availability of inexpensive personal computers and the widespread wireless access to the Internet makes it possible for an online adjunct instructor to teach eight to ten online classes every day. This many physical college classes would be impossible to acquire at a physical postsecondary institution at this time because the current trend is to limit the number of classes a traditional adjunct has access to on a daily basis. What is more, college students of every stripe actually want to earn an online mathematics degree, an online bachelor degree in accounting or an electrical engineering bachelor degree online from their personal computers.

The simple case with online teaching is that there is plenty of it. If an online adjunct instructor wants to add online courses to the teaching schedule, and thereby add online adjunct income to the budget, it is simply a matter of applying to additional online college degree programs. This can be accomplished by visiting the thousands of websites maintained by colleges, community colleges, universities, technical schools and for-profit colleges that confer the online degree.