Many public school educators are facing economic uncertainty as state budgets previously dedicated to public educational pursuits dry up and lave academics in the proverbial career ditch. It is not necessary for a high school or elementary school teacher with a graduate degree to remain without employment, and the traditional college adjunct professor teaching in a physical college classroom on a traditional post-secondary campus can certainly improve his or her financial condition by recognizing that teaching online college courses is a viable alternative in these parlous days for educators of all stripes. The welcome issued by academic administrators and new and returning college students alike to distance education technology has a real grounding in the technology’s ability to solve myriad problems. For example, the administrators responsible for maintaining the physical plants known as college and university campuses and paying faculty salaries are currently in a real dither because the expense of building out and maintaining physical college and university classrooms with ever diminishing budgetary funds precludes actually paying faculty members a living wage. There is only so much to go around, and the academic administrators know all too well that they will be unemployed if they do not find an alternative for the delivery of post-secondary instruction since the student populations are swelling larger than at any time since the middle of the last century. Fortunately, the ease of implementing and offering college students enrollment in online bachelor degree programs and online masters degree programs is a genuine solution that essentially saves the administrators, engages the college and university students and provide outstanding employment opportunities for academics willing to learn how to navigate the Internet with a personal computer.
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.
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