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Rat
Race Rebellion Book Review
Make
Money Teaching Online: How to Land Your First Academic Job, Build
Credibility, and Earn a Six-Figure Salary , by Danielle Babb,
PhD, and Jim Mirabella, DBA
(Wiley, ISBN
978-0-470-10087-5, Hardback, $24.95)
Reviewed by Michael
Haaren
Online teaching has
become a popular work-at-home option,
but there are few books to tell you how to go about it. Fortunately, Make Money Teaching
Online
admirably
fills the gap.
Experienced adjunct
professors and online teachers, the
authors take readers by the hand and, putting the horse before the
cart, introduce
them to the world of online education, where the prospective home-based
teacher’s
students are coming in the (virtual) door. Indeed, the authors point
out,
online learning is growing so rapidly that “[o]ver 50 percent of the
academic
leaders in higher education now see [it] as a critical long-term
strategy.”
The authors go on to
show how online degrees have finally
won proper weight in the hiring marketplace, and how an aspiring
teacher
seeking advanced degrees can follow the same path as his or her
students,
upgrading credentials with more flexibility (and in less time) than an
onsite
setting would allow. (Having earned my own degrees at older,
traditional institutions
before online courses were available -- complete with long, tiring
public bus
trips into campus from the cheaper suburbs where I lived -- I enjoyed
at least
six credits of vicarious thrills imagining the home-based learning
option.)
From there, we’re
shown why schools love adjunct teachers
(in a word, teaching has been outsourced to a labor pool far cheaper
than even
the greenest tenured prof could ever be, with infrastructure costs
shaved in
the bargain), and how, even on scaled-down pay, the online teacher can
still
make a good living.
The book hews
appropriately to a “rubber-meets-the-road”
approach (lovers of theory will have to retreat to the university
library), with
chapters covering such essentials as the types of online teaching jobs
available
(including a few pages on high-school jobs), earning potential,
jobhunting
tips, and what the schools are looking for in prospective hires.
“Day-in-the-life”
advice, and tech explanations and tips, round out the picture.
My only quibble with
the book is that some readers may come
searching for information on ESL opportunities. But that arena -- like
the
online teaching world generally -- has grown so that it undoubtedly
merits
separate coverage, as I’m sure ESL experts will agree.
To conclude, the
authors’ comprehensive grasp of their
subject -- and their obvious love of teaching -- make for a warm and
informative book, well worth the price.
For more information,
see the authors’ website, at http://www.teachonlinebook.com/
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Work
From Home Scams
There
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our press release on this statistic.]
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Japan...............25
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Great
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