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Each week we will summarize all the adjunct jobs we’ve added to AdjunctWorld during the week for easy reference.  If you’d like to be notified moments after we post new jobs, please LIKE our facebook page or follow us on twitter.

So, without further ado, this week we posted 26 new Online Adjunct jobs on AdjunctWorld from 14 different schools. Currently there are a total of 2,006 Adjunct jobs listed there.  Click below to see a selection of these recently posted jobs:

 

11 Online positions – Concordia University – Irvine

2 Online positions – Western Governors University

2 Online positions – International University Bad Honnef – Bonn

 

AdjunctWorld’s latest 10 Online Adjunct positions

 

…as well as online adjunct positions at AIU OnlineColorado Technical University – Online, Concordia College of New York, Georgia Military College, Grantham University, Lesley University, Miami University, Northcentral University, Saint Josephs College, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and University of Maryland University College.

 

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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 can be categorized as visual, auditory, or kinesthetic learners – meaning that some folks will learn better if the information is presented visually, others if the information is auditory, and others if they can physically manipulate something to learn.

The implication for pedagogy is that teachers, from kindergarten through graduate school, should assess the learning styles of each student and attempt to reach them via that mode. In recent years, theories of learning style have come under attack. For example, in Ben Ambridge’s TED talk called “10 Myths of Psychology Debunked”, he argues that the mode of learning is better associated with what is being taught rather than the individual learner. Some information is better presented in some ways than others. To illustrate, he says that you cannot tell someone how to drive a car. Driving is something that must be learned kinesthetically. You can’t hear a mathematical proof and understand it. You must see it written out.

Perhaps the most heated criticism of learning style theory comes from neurosocience. Neuroscientists believe that the human brain is designed to understand information in a variety of ways and it is indeed that variety that helps neurons connect across brain areas and facilitate deep learning. They fear that this ubiquitous classroom habit of “assessing” individual learning style and tailoring the teaching approach to that one “preferred” channel directly contradicts what we know in neuroscience. The more ways we learn information, the more neural connections we can make and the better, deeper, and more critically we learn. To subscribe to learning style theory, particularly in childhood education, is to cheat children out of the practice of depth of processing that is needed for adult success.

Susan Greenfield (2007) said it plainly when she said:

“Humans have evolved to build a picture of the world through our senses working in unison, exploiting the immense interconnectivity that exists in the brain. It is when the senses are activated together – the sound of a voice is synchronisation with the movement of a person’s lips – that brain cells fire more strongly than when stimuli are received apart” (Henry, 2007, para. 7).

She and her colleagues also call attention to the weak validity of learning style theory itself as well as the assessments used to classify them. As of my last graduate class on human development and learning, learning style theories are still being taught as a preferred method of organizing one’s teaching approach. Some online teacher training courses still emphasize the value of taking the time to assess student learning style at the beginning of class.

What is your experience with learning style? Your opinion on its usefulness in the classroom? What do you think about neuroscientists’ argument? Please leave a comment below!

Henry, J. (2007).  Professor pans learning style teaching method. The Telegraph (Online). Retrieved from:  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1558822/Professor-pans-learning-style-teaching-method.html.

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Each week we will summarize all the adjunct jobs we’ve added to AdjunctWorld during the week for easy reference.  If you’d like to be notified moments after we post new jobs, please LIKE our facebook page or follow us on twitter.

So, without further ado, this week we posted 35 new Online Adjunct jobs on AdjunctWorld from 12 different schools. Currently there are a total of 1,995 Adjunct jobs listed there.  Click below to see a selection of these recently posted jobs:

 

11 Online positions – Southern New Hampshire University

7 Online positions – Henley-Putnam University

5 Online positions – Northwestern University

 

AdjunctWorld’s latest 10 Online Adjunct positions

 

…as well as online adjunct positions at AIU Online, American Public University System, Ashford University, Grantham University, Kaplan University, Siena Heights University, Study.com, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, University of Northwestern Ohio, and Walden University.

 

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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 as lecturers, assistant professors, graduate students, etc.) for the purpose of sharing those materials with other teachers in the discipline. After sharing your own set of content, you will have full access to their searchable database of class materials that will help you get a jump start on teaching your next class.

According to CollegeClassroom.net,

Research, teaching, and service compete for the time of most higher education professionals. While teaching is one of the most rewarding aspects of the profession, class preparation often consumes a disproportionate amount of time.  We provide a solution to this time allocation challenge: A free file-sharing platform for teaching materials. The opportunity to access hundreds of peer-reviewed higher education teaching materials allows educators to substantially reduce class preparation time, while continuing to provide highest-quality instruction to their students.

Before a set of teaching materials is made available on this site, the materials are reviewed by peer educators who teach in the same or similar field. Thus, all materials available on CollegeClassroom.net are peer-reviewed, implying usefulness, utility, and effectiveness in the classroom. Users gain access to the site once the materials they’ve submitted have been approved.

Why the requirement to upload one’s own materials before having access to others? There are several reasons:

  1. To keep the website rich with reliable content, to grow its usefulness for the adjunct community, and to provide material for adjuncts in more and more disciplines.
  2. To prevent, what the authors of the site refer to as, “free riding.”
  3. To keep in the spirit of community and sharing in higher education.

The authors of the site are careful to keep their website and the materials within it free from copyright infringement. Users of the site are encouraged to copyright or license their materials in a way they so choose (with the default setting being the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License). Users are also asked to make sure they fully own any content they are uploading. This would be particularly important for online adjuncts, as much of the content we use in teaching those courses is provided by the school we teach for and are therefore not ours to share.

Right now, seven disciplines are represented and we at AdjunctWorld would like to help this site grow to include more disciplines. In addition to the course materials, CollegeClassroom.net also provides resources for college adjunct instructors in the form of monthly newsletters, a resources page (with news, events, advice & support, job and career information, research & stats, and links to academic social media), and an active presence on social media.

To learn more about CollegeClassroom.net, subscribe to their free newsletter by clicking here. Their social media links are located on this page as well.

Hope you find this resource as helpful as we do! I myself find creating classes to be time consuming, yet incredibly fun. Usually, once I have a frame of reference to riff from, I stop “working” and start “creating”. It is in this spirit that I find a site like this so useful.

What do you all think of the course creation process? Chore? Or Art? What helps you in this process? Where and how do you begin? Please feel free to comment below!

 

 

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Each week we will summarize all the adjunct jobs we’ve added to AdjunctWorld during the week for easy reference.  If you’d like to be notified moments after we post new jobs, please LIKE our facebook page or follow us on twitter.

So, without further ado, this week we posted 42 new Online Adjunct jobs on AdjunctWorld from 10 different schools. Currently there are a total of 2,007 Adjunct jobs listed there.  Click below to see a selection of these recently posted jobs:

 

20 Online positions – New England College (SME Positions)

5 Online positions – Caldwell University

5 Online positions – University of the People

 

AdjunctWorld’s latest 10 Online Adjunct positions

 

…as well as online adjunct positions at Ashford University, Berkeley College, Dipont Education, Florida Institute of Technology, Samuel Merritt University, South University Online, and Walden University.

 

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Would you like to be alerted to the jobs in your discipline(s) right after they are posted on AdjunctWorld, rather than waiting for this weekly summary, or watching for our facebook & twitter posts?  Over the past week we’ve sent out hundreds of daily job alert emails to Premium AdjunctWorld Members.  Click here for a description of all of the Premium Membership benefits and how to subscribe.

 

Thanks! for being a part of the AdjunctWorld Community.

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Each week we will summarize all the adjunct jobs we’ve added to AdjunctWorld during the week for easy reference.  If you’d like to be notified moments after we post new jobs, please LIKE our facebook page or follow us on twitter.

So, without further ado, this week we posted 23 new Online Adjunct jobs on AdjunctWorld from 12 different schools. Currently there are a total of 1,996 Adjunct jobs listed there.  Click below to see a selection of these recently posted jobs:

 

7 Online positions – Western Governors University

2 Online positions – Rasmussen College

2 Online positions – University of Roehampton

 

AdjunctWorld’s latest 10 Online Adjunct positions

 

…as well as online adjunct positions at Ashford University, Bay Path University, Colorado Technical University, Idaho Digital Learning Academy, Profhire, Inc., Seton Hall Law, Simmons College, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and Walden University.

 

Personalized Daily Job Alerts

Would you like to be alerted to the jobs in your discipline(s) right after they are posted on AdjunctWorld, rather than waiting for this weekly summary, or watching for our facebook & twitter posts?  Over the past week we’ve sent out hundreds of daily job alert emails to Premium AdjunctWorld Members.  Click here for a description of all of the Premium Membership benefits and how to subscribe.

 

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This week, we got an email from an online job-seeking adjunct asking the following question:

I’m looking to begin online teaching to supplement my retirement income. I would like to give your site a try.  How do I register as a new member? Is there a cost for membership?

Great questions and ones I can definitely answer. I’ll answer the second question first.

No, there is no cost to sign up as a Basic Member of AdjunctWorld. As a Basic Member you have full use of our website, including a searchable database of available online jobs and the home page which lists the most recently added online jobs. As a Basic Member you will also have access to our AdjunctWorld blog, which provides resources helpful to the online teacher.  We send out a weekly summary email to all of our members as well, informing you of all the jobs added to our database that week. We offer additional resources in our weekly emails as well.

However, if you’d like to upgrade to a Premium Membership there is a small fee per month. With Premium Membership you will receive automated email alerts whenever we upload a job in your discipline. So, you are immediately and automatically informed of the new jobs in your specific discipline being added to our database without having to come to our site and check yourself. You are able to sign up for three disciplines, which we strongly encourage you do because it increases the number of relevant alerts you will get. Right now, the email alerts are perhaps the biggest perk of premium membership. There are other benefits of Premium Membership with new benefits being added soon. See our full description of Premium Benefits and how to sign up for them here.

Right now, when you sign up as a Basic Member, you get a free trial of Premium Membership. You will not be charged any money when your Premium Trial ends, you will have to self-select to continue if you’d like.

Now on to your second question! To sign up for Basic Membership (and your free Premium trial), do the following:

1)  Go to AdjunctWorld.com.

2)  Scroll down to where you see “Adjuncts: Free Membership”

3)  Click on the “Sign Up” button under the “Adjuncts: Free Membership” title.

4)  Enter your email address and a password you will use to access our database. Make sure the email address is one you check, so that your free trial Premium Alerts go to a working email address.

5)  Continue the process and begin enjoying our site!

Best of luck to you as you search for online teaching work. Please free free to comment below with any questions or email me. Thanks for the questions! Keep ’em comin’!

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Each week we will summarize all the adjunct jobs we’ve added to AdjunctWorld during the week for easy reference.  If you’d like to be notified moments after we post new jobs, please LIKE our facebook page or follow us on twitter.

So, without further ado, this week we posted 26 new Online Adjunct jobs on AdjunctWorld from 13 different schools. Currently there are a total of 1,952 Adjunct jobs listed there.  Click below to see a selection of these recently posted jobs:

 

5 Online positions – Patrick Henry College

5 Online positions – Western Governors University

2 Online positions – AIU Online

 

AdjunctWorld’s latest 10 Online Adjunct positions

 

…as well as online adjunct positions at Ashford University, Colorado Community College, Franklin University, Great Basin College, Herzing University, Savannah College of Art and Design, Southern New Hampshire University, Study.com, Tarrant County College, and The Chicago School of Professional Psychology.

 

Personalized Daily Job Alerts

Would you like to be alerted to the jobs in your discipline(s) right after they are posted on AdjunctWorld, rather than waiting for this weekly summary, or watching for our facebook & twitter posts?  Over the past week we’ve sent out hundreds of daily job alert emails to Premium AdjunctWorld Members.  Click here for a description of all of the Premium Membership benefits and how to subscribe.

 

Thanks! for being a part of the AdjunctWorld Community.

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Happy Valentines Day fellow Adjuncts!

Hope everyone is enjoying peaceful day with those you love.  Its cold and snowy here in Kentucky, so today finds my family and I snuggled around the fireplace (its electric, but hey, it works) drinking coffee and cocoa.

Love is on my mind as I sit down to write this blog post and I got to wondering what all of you love about online teaching (or the prospect of online teaching). Its something we are all looking for, but why are we pursuing it? Ideally because there is something we find appealing or dare I say “attractive” about it, huh? I’ll list a few of the things I love about online teaching here and I welcome you to share yours in the comment section below!

What I Love About Online Teaching

  1. Obviously, the flexibility. Working from home on a self-paced schedule is perhaps the biggest allure of a career in online teaching. I’ve worked from the beach, while camping, in various pairs of comfy pjs, and in just about every Starbucks and Panera in the city of Louisville, Ky. While working on vacation doesn’t necessarily sound like a perk, the fact that I was able to schedule a vacation when I wanted to without having to find a sub or working around the semester schedule is certainly nice.
  2. Its something I choose to do. I’ve worked with a lot of instructors who feel “forced” by their universities to teach online. There seems to be resentment there. I try to help them find the silver lining, but at the end of the conversation I’m more appreciative of my choice in the matter.
  3. Adult Distance Learners are hungry for knowledge. Most online learners are adults who’ve already had varied careers and have had a life experience that has inspired them to return to school and pursue a degree in psychology. These students are interesting, interested, motivated, and ever-willing to engage in sidebar conversations. It’s an inspiring population to work with.
  4. It helps keep my career varied and interesting. In addition to teaching online, I’m also a licensed clinical psychologist with a small psychotherapy practice, community manager for AdjunctWorld, and a professional development trainer. I also do subject matter expert work. No day is ever the same as the next and, after working as a full time clinician for several years, the variety is welcome and keeps me energized. Sitting for 8 hours a day in one chair, even though I love doing psychotherapy, is something I’d like not to do again.
  5. I’m part of a community of distance educators. We are an interesting crew, right? I’d also go as far as to say that, as an online instructor, you are a part of a community of remote employees in a more general sense.
  6. It gives me one more thing in common with my husband. I’m a clinical psychologist and he’s an information technology exec. You wouldn’t think our careers would overlap too much, would you? But because I am an online teacher and he works for a higher education start up, we share an industry and I’m thankful for that.

What about you? What do you love about online teaching? Or, if you haven’t taught online yet, what about the idea of online teaching pulls you toward it? Please comment below! I’d love to hear from you.

And, as always, best of luck in your job search.

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Each week we will summarize all the adjunct jobs we’ve added to AdjunctWorld during the week for easy reference.  If you’d like to be notified moments after we post new jobs, please LIKE our facebook page or follow us on twitter.

So, without further ado, this week we posted 25 new Online Adjunct jobs on AdjunctWorld from 13 different schools. Currently there are a total of 1,950  Adjunct jobs listed there.  Click below to see a selection of these recently posted jobs:

 

6 Online positions – Geneva College

4 Online positions – Walden University

3 Online positions – Career Education Corporation

 

AdjunctWorld’s latest 10 Online Adjunct positions

 

…as well as online adjunct positions at Antioch University, Argosy University, Colorado Technical University, Delta College, Eastern Kentucky University, Education Futures Management, Herzing College, La Roche College, Nevada State College, and Study.com.

 

Personalized Daily Job Alerts

Would you like to be alerted to the jobs in your discipline(s) right after they are posted on AdjunctWorld, rather than waiting for this weekly summary, or watching for our facebook & twitter posts?  Over the past week we’ve sent out hundreds of daily job alert emails to Premium AdjunctWorld Members.  Click here for a description of all of the Premium Membership benefits and how to subscribe.

 

Thanks! for being a part of the AdjunctWorld Community.