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Re: Speed Grading/ how does one get online jobs?
Posted by rw on 1/20/08
I'm not sure what the students think. Hmmm. To get the job I did some internet research on places that hire online teachers (at the college level) and started sending out resumes. A lot of those places have a somewhat permanent "job ad" at their university website-- as universities sometimes do when they frequently need adjuncts in certain areas. One contacted me back about four months later. They go by quarters, so if I can keep it I should be able to make $4K a year if I teach one class at a time. So far I'm actually liking it pretty well for the most part. They offered me two classes for the next quarter but I'm sticking with one for now since I work another full-time job. On 1/17/08, sm wrote: > On 1/05/08, rw wrote: >> I teach an online class with 29 students and the university >> expects me to grade papers within 24 hours. Since they only >> hire part-timers at $1100 a course, they know this is a >> "second job." > > Great question. It would seem so, wouldn't it but likely if one asked they'd say > no, of course we expect you to give all of these papers a thorough reading and > write equally though comments on them. But since they give you 24 hours that > rather contradicts their expectations so what's the underlying message to you? > Do enough that the students feel the money they spent is validated - why are > they taking this course? > And how did you get your online job? >> >> Do you think this is the university's way of saying that I >> should mostly just give A's? I don't see how I can grade >> under these conditions except perhaps to write one sentence >> commentary per student and maybe two sentences when I'm not >> giving an A.
Posts on this thread, including this one
- Speed Grading, 1/05/08, by rw.
- Re: Speed Grading, 1/05/08, by no you are expected to write substantive comments.
- Re: Speed Grading, 1/13/08, by rw.
- Re: Speed Grading, 1/14/08, by LOL I know what you mean! .
- Re: Speed Grading/ how does one get online jobs?, 1/17/08, by sm.
- Re: Speed Grading/ how does one get online jobs?, 1/20/08, by rw.
- Re: Speed Grading/ how does one get online jobs?, 1/20/08, by rw.
- Re: how many classes , 3/14/08, by ~VP~.
- Re: how many classes , 3/26/08, by bernoulli.
- Re: how many classes , 4/04/08, by ~VP~.
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