A Noteworthy Online Teaching Blog

Teach Online (http://virtualprof.wordpress.com/) is a blog that directly addresses such online teaching issues as “Why Teach Online” and “Finding That First Job”.

The author, virtualprof, writes in a clear, concise voice that will certainly make any online teacher think a little deeper about the issues surrounding online teaching.

Of special interest is “Who teaches for $$ and who teaches for the love of the job?” Virtualprof details the sometimes demanding requirements of the training insisted on by online schools, and makes the important point that online teaching requires a serious commitment of time and energy.

Here is a direct quote from the “Who teaches for $$ and who teaches for the love of the job?” post:


So you wanna make a lot of money teaching online? You can do it if you’re willing to spend the time. You’ll have to take on second and third jobs, and maybe even fourth and fifth and sixth jobs. No school is going to give an adjunct a full time course load. So you need to work for more schools. But see, here’s the newest thing now with these schools. They are starting to figure out (thanks to these listserves) that most adjuncts are sending out CVs to the tune of 100’s a month to try to get “one more school” where they can teach. And all of a sudden, adjuncts are teaching for 5-10 different schools throughout the year. This causes some reasonable concern on the part of the schools that are hiring these online adjuncts.

Not only does EVERYONE want to teach online now, but everyone also wants to make a living teaching online full time. The truth is, doing that means working 50-60 hours a week or more to provide a quality learning experience for each student in all those classes. The question is, are you willing to give up that much of your time every week and do nothing else BUT teach? That’s not for me. I’d rather not shoot for the over-100K salary, working 60 or more hours a week.


Every prospective online teacher should visit Teach Online (http://virtualprof.wordpress.com/) and contemplate the sage advice and clear insights offered by the author.

I hope I can talk virtualprof into writing an exclusive article for onlineteachingsearch.