Posts Categorized: AdjunctWorld Resources

In our 4-week course OnRamp: A Practical Guide to Landing an Online Teaching Job, we discuss the idea of developing multiple remote income streams. A lot of our job-seeking online adjuncts are looking for ways to spend the “wait time” – the time between applying, applying, applying and eventually landing that online teaching position, and one… Read more »

An AdjunctWorld member emailed me recently about the frustration I’m sure many of us feel when we consider the time and effort we put into our classes along with the amount of money paid-per-class, especially when paid adjunct rates. We’ve been chatting back and forth about ways to help adjuncts calculate time spent vs. money… Read more »

This week, a member of our AdjunctWorld community asked this question, “How can I learn the different learning management systems online or where can I find a tutorial application for the online environment?” It is a great question and I was tempted to answer it by researching web trainings for each of the popular LMSs… Read more »

This week finds me restructuring a traditional 14-week semester-based online course into a 5-week accelerated summer session (also online). What to do, what to do? Keep the tests but make them worth more points? Cram three discussion board questions into each week? Or two, because three would be too much? If I cut back from… Read more »

I took a parenting class a couple of years ago and whenever one of us students asked a tough question to the teacher (you know, posed one of those impossible-to-solve parenting dilemmas) the teacher always responded with an empathetic shake of the head and by saying “Parenting is not for the faint of heart!” It… Read more »

Several times a month, and three times this week alone, I receive emails from frustrated members of our community who apply to online teaching job after online teaching job and rarely -if at all – receive any acknowledgement from the school let alone opportunities to interview. I hear you loud and clear. I myself am… Read more »

Hope everyone is enjoying their summer! The fall semester is right around the corner and that finds a lot of us opening our computers and wiping the dust off of our syllabi. As I dust mine, I find myself wanting to update what I’ve decided is a rather weak netiquette section. Netiquette rules are the… Read more »

This week I was excited by an opportunity to teach online for my alma mater! With that excitement came a little trepidation – this online class has 50 students enrolled. I typically teach classes with, at the most, 18-20 students. Something tells me that this might be quite a different ballgame. My strategy? Research!  What… Read more »

Learning styles are one of the most discussed pedagogical concepts. Theories of learning style posit that individual differences in learning can be accounted for by preferred modes of learning that vary from person to person. Perhaps the most common theory of learning style is the VAK theory proposed by Neil Fleming. He believed that individuals… Read more »

Hello fellow Adjuncts! Last week I was alerted to an excellent resource for adjunct instructors – CollegeClassroom.net. This website is a completely free file-sharing platform for college teaching materials. What you can find here are full sets of teaching materials (syllabi, assignments, lecture content, visual aids, etc.) uploaded by adjuncts just like yourself (as well… Read more »