It’s time for unemployed or underemployed educators with a earned graduate degree to join an online faculty and start teaching again in order to earn a decent living while gaining the bonus of geographic mobility. Distance education technology is now an accepted vehicle for the delivery of post-secondary instruction on the Internet. Fortunately for prospective college and university instructors each online college class within an online bachelor degree program or online master degree programs requires an academically qualified and technically adept online adjunct instructor to teach it. The employment opportunities for teaching jobs online are growing by leaps and bounds as a result of the adoption of distance education technology by both college and university students and the individuals that administer the budget funds on campuses. The academic administrators, deans, department heads and boards of regents, are desperate for a less expensive way to provide instruction than the physical classroom. Simply stated, it is far less financially onerous to provide students with online courses that lead to a health administration degree online, an online accounting degree or an electrical engineering bachelor degree online. The students are so familiar with the internet in general and with personal computers in particular that they are quite agreeable about enrolling in online college degree programs.

The educators with a Ph.D. or master’s degree and computer skills that allow them to easily move about the Internet can learn how to build an online teaching portfolio filled with multiple online teaching opportunities. The number of online adjunct jobs in the online teaching schedule can be scaled up and down according to the online adjunct instructor’s need for additional online adjunct income streams or extra free time to pursue personal business. The point is that as long as the deadlines of the online college classes are met the online adjunct is free to live anywhere he or she wishes to live as long as access to the Internet is available. This mobility is distinctly different than the strict geographic boundaries that must be observed by traditional adjunct college faculty members. In this way it is possible for an online instructor to continue to college a variety of online adjunct income streams while traveling or between destinations because today even airport lobbies have wireless connections available to the public.

The best way to begin acquiring online college classes to teach is to use a personal computer to visit the websites of the over five thousand community colleges, universities and for-profit colleges. All post-secondary academic institutions now offer some form of distance education to their enrolled students. Granted, the publicly funded schools are slightly behind the for-profit colleges in the deployment of online degree programs in almost every area of study, but they will soon catch up and will probably exceed the offerings of the for-profit universities. Eventually, every school will need large numbers of experienced online adjunct instructor. The academics that take advantage of the growth in accredited distance learning programs now will certainly benefit from having significant amounts of online faculty experience on their applications.