Online faculty positions really are out there for the taking, but in order to find them, it is vitally important to have a search strategy. First and foremost, it is always a good idea to become convinced that there really are online faculty positions you can apply for every hour of the day. From a psychological perspective, a search strategy, which by its very nature is time consuming and labor intensive, is much more effective if the searcher knows in advance that there will be a definite payoff at some point in the search. Surprisingly, one of the online faculty positions out there can fall into your lap in an unexpected fashion. In one search the instructor was offered several online adjunct employment opportunities because the instructor had applied online to group of online schools and there was an opening in one of the school’s online master’s degree programs. The instructor literally had no idea the group of schools had programs that offered online masters degrees to their students. This is an example [Read more...]