Most of us remember March, 2020 as being the month where—as far as education goes—pretty much most brick-and-mortar classrooms were empty. Classes, as we knew them, transitioned nearly entirely online. How did history classes fare? Here’s what the American Historical Association said in their news magazine: “History classes, in particular, are generally more adaptable to… Read more »
Monthly Archives:: December 2021
Teach Psychology Online – Becoming an Online Psychology Professor
It may seem counterintuitive, but teaching psychology online is a rapidly growing field. You’d think that psychology constitutes teaching some pretty extensive information, including interpersonal soft skills —and it does—but this in no way limits it from being taught as an online course. In fact, teaching psychology online may even be ideal. No wonder so… Read more »
How Do You Land an Online Teaching Job?
So you have what it takes to teach online college courses. You have the right college degrees in your discipline. You have some teaching experience. You’re pretty good at using the technology that the courses will require. Maybe you even have some experience with learning management systems, like Blackboard or Brightspace or Canvas. You’re as… Read more »
This Week’s Online Teaching Job Listings – 12/26/2021
Each week we will summarize all the online adjunct jobs we’ve added to AdjunctWorld during the week for easy reference. If you’d like to be notified right after we post a new online teaching job in your discipline area, giving your application a jump start, consider becoming a Premium Member! In addition to online teaching job alerts, you will… Read more »
Do Online Adjunct Instructors Get Benefits?
Over the past decade (at least) there has been, and continues to be, a great deal of controversy in the case of the employee benefits that an adjunct instructor is often denied. Benefits, as defined in the lives of the adjunct faculty, revolve largely around health benefits—health insurance—and pensions. In either case, benefits are far too… Read more »
What are the Pros and Cons of Teaching Online?
When considering becoming an online adjunct teacher as opposed to a traditional adjunct teacher—which is to say, teaching in an online forum versus teaching in a regular classroom—it’s obvious that there are notable differences in the two approaches. Is one better than the other? Not necessarily. But online teaching has its share of perks, though… Read more »
This Week’s Online Teaching Job Listings – 12/19/2021
Each week we will summarize all the online adjunct jobs we’ve added to AdjunctWorld during the week for easy reference. If you’d like to be notified right after we post a new online teaching job in your discipline area, giving your application a jump start, consider becoming a Premium Member! This week we posted 38 Online Adjunct jobs from 24 schools. We at… Read more »
What is an Example of an Asynchronous Discussion?
By now, you have a good idea of what an asynchronous discussion is. You’ve read about the benefits of these online discussions, and you probably have an idea as to how to facilitate them. So far, so good. Now comes the next question: what does the asynchronous discussion actually look like? Or, to put it… Read more »
This Week’s Online Teaching Job Listings – 12/12/2021
Each week we will summarize all the online adjunct jobs we’ve added to AdjunctWorld during the week for easy reference. If you’d like to be notified right after we post a new online teaching job in your discipline area, giving your application a jump start, consider becoming a Premium Member! This week we posted 49 Online Adjunct jobs from 27 schools. We at… Read more »
How Do You Facilitate Asynchronous Discussions?
By now, as someone interested in becoming an online adjunct professor, you are aware of the many things that need to go into doing that job well. One of the things you’ll have to do is to lead discussions, and those discussions will be led entirely online, in cyberspace. So how do you do that?… Read more »