"AdjunctNation.com is the on-line component of the Adjunct Advocate magazine. AdjunctNation.com is updated several times each week. Jobs are added daily to the JOB-LIST."
I highly recommend Adjunct Nation as a source for information about an online faculty position. In fact, I found my first lead for online teaching on Adjunct Nation. I've been teaching solely online for the last five years. Believe me, online teaching saved my income after I had to evacuate New Orleans because of Katrina. I landed at my sister-in-law's kitchen with an old laptop and continued to teach my four online courses while almost every teacher in New Orelans was fired and sent to the unemployment line. I still check in on Adjunct Nation today for information about distance education positions.
Goodness gracious, what a very late comment on such an old post. Is onlinefacultyposition.com another one of your blogs?
Don't overlook email discussion groups either ~ another good information source, in addition to mutual support and networking. There's no substitute for thorough research using multiple sources.
Well, I spend some time every day looking around at blogs that discuss adjunct issues. I really did find my way to my first online adjunct gig by reading AN's "Going The Distance" forum. At the time, I was floored by the idea that college teachers were earning a living on the Internet! Yes, I have a number of blogs that promote the idea that traditional (on-ground) adjunct can increasing their incomes by teaching online. I agree with you that email discussion groups can be helpful, but I also think "cold calling" every school with a web site can pay off for any adjunct.
as a fellow blogger (and often on behalf of the blogwisely gormless), I think it would cool if you picked one of your online adjunct blogs and ran with it.
I did the cold calling thing after researching online schools and visiting websites to get a "feel" for the school ~ got lucky unusually early in the process too, but I had a list of job list sites too.
A few groups are now more into building lists and job hunting resources than 5 years or so ago. At least that is my impression.
I'd favor a system that rates jobs posted by a system comparable to "best places to work" or Forbes "top 100 employers."
ReplyDeleteI highly recommend Adjunct Nation as a source for information about an online faculty position. In fact, I found my first lead for online teaching on Adjunct Nation. I've been teaching solely online for the last five years. Believe me, online teaching saved my income after I had to evacuate New Orleans because of Katrina. I landed at my sister-in-law's kitchen with an old laptop and continued to teach my four online courses while almost every teacher in New Orelans was fired and sent to the unemployment line. I still check in on Adjunct Nation today for information about distance education positions.
ReplyDeleteGoodness gracious, what a very late comment on such an old post. Is onlinefacultyposition.com another one of your blogs?
ReplyDeleteDon't overlook email discussion groups either ~ another good information source, in addition to mutual support and networking. There's no substitute for thorough research using multiple sources.
Vanessa,
ReplyDeleteWell, I spend some time every day looking around at blogs that discuss adjunct issues. I really did find my way to my first online adjunct gig by reading AN's "Going The Distance" forum. At the time, I was floored by the idea that college teachers were earning a living on the Internet! Yes, I have a number of blogs that promote the idea that traditional (on-ground) adjunct can increasing their incomes by teaching online. I agree with you that email discussion groups can be helpful, but I also think "cold calling" every school with a web site can pay off for any adjunct.
Thanks for responding to my post.
Dapper Fellow
as a fellow blogger (and often on behalf of the blogwisely gormless), I think it would cool if you picked one of your online adjunct blogs and ran with it.
ReplyDeleteI did the cold calling thing after researching online schools and visiting websites to get a "feel" for the school ~ got lucky unusually early in the process too, but I had a list of job list sites too.
A few groups are now more into building lists and job hunting resources than 5 years or so ago. At least that is my impression.