The current academic landscape is ragged enough to give any traditional college instructor pause. Physical postsecondary academic institutions are currently suffering under tremendous budgetary pressures due to the shortfall in funding sources. As a result of the shortfall, traditional colleges and universities have to pare back the numbers of adjunct college instructors on the faculty. The result is that adjunct college teachers who are losing what little income they have from teaching in the physical college classroom are making every effort to recoup the investment they made in their graduate education. Since the non-academic economy is in such tatters the best option for individual with an earned graduate degree, a PhD or Masters degree, is to search for and acquire online faculty positions with various online bachelor degree programs and online master degree programs. Distance education technology has matured to the point that any academic institution, college, university or for-profit college, can offer bearer student populations online college classes at a very low cost when compared to what it cost to maintain and repair a physical college classroom.

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.