A lot of people like the idea of a real job that can be done from a laptop accessing the Internet anywhere in the world, but it is actually possible to do so an online adjunct instructor teaching new and returning college students taking online college classes. Assuming that someone has a graduate degree in English, history or math, perhaps, psychology, and a fairly high level of technical expertise with computers and Internet navigation, he or she can teach at as many as five or six different online college degree programs. These different academic institutions can be a mix of for-profit schools, community colleges, state-funded colleges and universities and private post-secondary institutions. Further, it is very possible and quite common to have two online college classes to teach for each academic institution. Thus, an aggressive intellectual with razor-sharp time management skills and excellent technical abilities could conceivably teach as many as eight to ten online college courses at a time. Understandably, this many classes would require ten and twelve hour stretches in from of a computer monitor, but it can be done with the right motivation. That motivation just might be the money that results from such a great amount of online teaching work.
With the current economic landscape in turmoil, money is pretty good source of motivation. With that in mind, a quick look at the economics of being an online adjunct instructor reveals that there is money in not spending money, and that multiple income streams from online education courses, for example, or online nursing programs can certainly add up to a spendable sum. Instructing students enrolled in an online teaching masters degree program doesn’t have to cost the online adjunct a cent in physical transportation to a traditional campus. On the contrary, what with the availability of free access to the Internet in a majority of public places such as coffee shops, hotel and public libraries, a cheap laptop with minimal software serves as both college classroom and personal vehicle. In this instance, the money saved by not spending cash on all the necessary things entailed with using a vehicle is money you keep as an additional income stream by teaching online business courses, for example, or for an online bachelor degree program.
While each online college class may not pay what seems to be a lot for the level of expertise and education required to be hired by an accredited online degree program, when teaching for several online programs the income starts to mount in a serious way. For example, if an online school pays one thousand eight hundred dollars for one online college course that runs six weeks, and there are any number of classes online that are only six weeks long, and an online adjunct is teaching two such classes, then the income would be thirty six hundred dollars for the five weeks teaching online. That’s six hundred dollars a week in income from just two on line college courses, and it would not take but a moment to calculate how much four or six such courses would pay each week. With this kind of economic potential, especially when it can be earned from a laptop accessing free Internet at a coffee shop, there is a lot of motivation to become an online adjunct instructor.
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