| Many college instructors teaching on an adjunct basis | | | | and as time goes on and more online college classes |
| for traditional college and universities are having a | | | | are offered to students earning an online nursing |
| tough time earning a decent living these days. If you | | | | degree, an online criminal justice degree or an online |
| are one of these adjunct college teachers or if you | | | | IT degree, the more valuable technically savvy, |
| are an individual with an earned graduate degree who | | | | academically credentialed online college teachers will |
| has recently experienced unemployment after | | | | become to the very schools that are letting them go |
| corporate downsizing, it is time to create your own | | | | from the physical classes right now. |
| college teaching schedule with online college teaching | | | | A forward-looking college teacher can easily manage |
| jobs. Every traditional post-secondary academic | | | | five to eight online college courses once the digital |
| institution is facing huge budget cuts and growing | | | | navigation skills have been mastered to the extent |
| student populations. The convergence of these two | | | | that the online student interaction requirements and |
| opposing forces is forcing college and university | | | | the administrative duties are no longer burdensome in |
| administers to adopt distance education technology | | | | terms of time spent on the computer. On the |
| as did the for profit schools about a decade ago. The | | | | financial side of the online teaching equation, it is |
| simple economic reality is that the colleges and | | | | possible to generate multiple income streams by |
| universities cannot afford to operate the large | | | | teaching online for multiple online degree programs, |
| physical [plants known as college campuses because | | | | and it is possible to choose several university online |
| the money isn't available anymore, and try as they | | | | programs that start their cone courses at different |
| will, they have been unable to fire enough traditional | | | | time and actually receive several paychecks each |
| adjuncts to make up the difference. | | | | week for almost the entire calendar year. |
| These financial problems at the institutional levels are | | | | It is not unreasonable to assert that distance |
| actually creating an outstanding career opportunity | | | | education will save the professoriate as it is |
| for people who are seeking online adjunct jobs with | | | | constituted, with up to seventy percent of all faculty |
| online bachelor degree programs and online master's | | | | members at college and universities teaching on an |
| degree programs. The reason online adjunct | | | | adjunct basis, and will provide income and hope for |
| instructors are in such demand for these online | | | | those who worked so hard to earn a master's |
| college degree programs is that any accredited | | | | degree or Ph.D. in their chosen area of academic |
| academic institution must employ online college | | | | discipline. However, as valuable as home and income |
| teachers with the appropriate academic credentials to | | | | are in these perilous times, online adjunct teaching is |
| teach each and every online college course offered in | | | | creating numerous opportunities to participate at |
| the accredited online degree program, At present, | | | | unprecedented levels in the new economy that is |
| there are not enough academically and technically | | | | paving the path to a brighter tomorrow. |
| qualified individual to teach all of the online classes, | | | | |