Learn strategies and tools to secure online teaching positions at colleges and universities, balancing work and personal responsibilities effectively.
This course teaches you how to navigate the world of online teaching jobs, equipping you with strategies and resources to find positions across various educational institutions. It’s all about making online teaching work for you!
This course will provide strategies, best practices, and creative approaches to finding online Instructor positions.
Over the past decade, community colleges, major public universities, and private universities around the country have embraced and operationalized robust online and distance education programs, to meet the needs of the twenty-first century student. This is the largest growth area, within higher education, and all signs indicate that this trend will continue. However, finding online teaching jobs can be a little tricky and confusing. Relying on traditional job-seeking methods can make one miss the ideal online teaching opportunity, because not all higher education institutions recruit in the same way. The objective of this course, then, is to provide you with a comprehensive strategy and tools to effectively hunt for both academic and vocational online teaching jobs, at the college level.
The course will include links to both mainstream and underutilized websites, current articles about legislation designed to promote and fund online education, and how to find jobs with out-of-state institutions.
This course is concise and to the point. Each lecture is between five and ten minutes, allowing subscriber the flexibility to either finish quickly or to take their time.
The structure of this course will consist of an informative introduction, three main sections, and a conclusion that will discuss how to maintain online employment in other, related ways. I will introduce the various types of online jobs, similarities and differences between types of institutions (public community college, public university, private university, online "mostly" programs). Then the class will explore how to best prepare yourself for job hunting online teaching jobs, at the college level, while discussing when colleges tend to hire faculty. The next section will explore the various strategies and tools to finding an online teaching job within your field (academic, vocational). Next, we will review the various learning software (Learning Management Systems) employed by institutions (Blackboard, Angel, Moodle, eCollege, etc.) and how to leverage them to effectively teach online. Finally, the course will cover how to maintain online employment into the future.
This course is for anyone with Bachelor's degree and vocational trade or a Master's or terminal degree in an academic field who wishes to teach online. Online teaching allows many people with the experience or education to better balance responsibilities at home, while earning money as an educator.
About me:
I am a firm believer in online education, because I have been both a online learner and an online instructor. Having returned to school in my thirties, I appreciated the flexibility of a distance education program and learned that they can be wonderful vehicles for achieving educational goals. After I completed grad school, I was hired to design and teach an online geography course, for the University of New Mexico. This course was so successful, I was nominated for the "2009-2010 Outstanding Online Instructor of the Year Award." I taught this course from my home in California. At the same time, I found a great position with Hutchinson Community College, in Kansas. In total, I taught about twenty classes for them, over four years. To this day, I have never set foot in Kansas. In California, I started teaching online for California State University, along with live courses. The benefit of teaching this way could hardly be measured. I was able to teach from home (remotely), which gave me both valuable teaching experience and the opportunity to better balance my responsibilities at home. So many of my friends and colleagues have and continue to ask me how I find these jobs around the country. In this class, I will teach you!
Understand how various segments of higher education recruit and hire.
Understand the nature and culture of online instruction.
Possess the ability to effectively search for online jobs, by using key tools.
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Greetings. My name is Brian McCabe and I am Lecturer at California State University, Fullerton in the Department of Geography and the Environment. Although I mainly teach live classes now, I have extensive experience teaching online courses. My first teaching job was with the University of New Mexico, where I was nominated for the 2009-2010 Outstanding Online Instructor of the...
Good information. No surprises so far.
Helpful and information.
It took a while for me to really understand the instructor's monotone, but the information was really good.
This introductory course was useful but very light weight. It did not go into enough depth. It would have been helpful to provide information about preparing a CV, letters of recommendation, links to more adjunct job sites (there are many), preparing for the interview, information about your first job, teaching philosophy, etc. Again, the presenter was good, spoke clearly, and the information useful, just not enough of it.
I learned a lot of the basics of finding and keeping stable online teaching employment through this course. Thank you!
This is a perfect example of a course which cannot be provided by some person who just read a book or took a course and regurgitated it with no soul or true understandin (a personal pet leeve so far on Udemy! lol) This is fantastic information from a persona who has been through the process, developed methods and shared here.
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Ronda O.
This is a very informative class. I wish there were some handouts, but I did take notes.