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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."

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.
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rw /blockquote>

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 th...See More
Jan 20, 2008
rw /blockquote>

Oh, and from what I've been hearing the average trajectory is to
apply to 50-60 places, wait 3-9 months to start hearing back,
and get hired by 1 or 2. Teach there for awhile, then apply at
more places if you want more work.

Some people claim to make $70-80K or more, but they "teach"
something about 10 ...See More
Jan 20, 2008
~VP~ /blockquote>

I teach between 6-9 classes every semester including summer. I
make well over 80K a year. The community colleges pay the worst
and my grad courses pay 3000 per 8 weeks per section. I teach as
many of those as I can!!

It's not about how many classes, it's about how many students
you teach at any giv...See More
Mar 14, 2008
bernoulli /blockquote>

On 3/14/08, ~VP~ wrote:
> I teach between 6-9 classes every semester including summer. I
> make well over 80K a year. The community colleges pay the worst
> and my grad courses pay 3000 per 8 weeks per section. I teach as
> many of those as I can!!
>
> It's not about how many classe...See More
Mar 26, 2008
~VP~ /blockquote>

The longer I teach online, the easier it gets. I've been doing this
full time for quite a few years now. Here's the URL for the bl og --
you'll need to close up the spaces and copy/paste into the web
browser to get the webpage:

[link removed]

There are a lot of tips and tricks for managing tim...See More
Apr 4, 2008


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