Online Colleges

3 Responses to “How To Teach Online”

1. Zev Says:
   September 25th, 2009 at 1:57 am

   I’m a university instructor who has taught some of my campus-based courses on line, and so I had a natural interest in this topic. This book is really for people who would like to make most or all their income from teaching online rather than from the typical routine of driving to part-time jobs at universities all around a region. The author shows that it is possible to have an income superior to most actual tenure-track university positions through teaching at the many online universities that have sprung up in the past decade. She explains how to juggle the demands of online universities [with their intense surveillance procedures] and still have very satisfying teaching engagement with a broad range of students and ability levels. I found this book astonishing and gratifying.

2. Wolfgang Says:
   September 25th, 2009 at 4:52 am

   This book doesn’t waste pages (or your time) with filler. Becky gets right to the meat, explaining how to find schools that are hiring, how to get an interview, how to wow them with a teaching statement, and land that first job.

   She also explains the economics of running your own online teaching consultancy: from building your teaching portfolio, to maximizing your income, figuring out which schools are more profitable and getting more classes from them. That’s the fast track to a six figure income!

   Plus, she gives great tips about how to keep track of all the work week by week, focus on the teaching and not the busywork, connect with students, keep administration happy, and still have time for the family. And she does it all with wry humor and wit.

   This is the online teaching book your colleagues are already reading, a necessity for anyone trying to break into the business or already immersed in the online teaching life.

3. Ull Says:
   September 25th, 2009 at 6:15 am

   For the premium price I paid for this book, I expected to have a comprehesive guide to teaching online. Instead, the book was small, typed in very large font, and did not have much meat to it. In fact, the final third of the book is a list of schools that offer online programs, which any google search will give you (with much more updated information, to boot).

   Not that the author didn’t have something to say, but I think most of the same information can be obtained from free online sources established for online faculty. If the price was less than $10 for the book, I wouldn’t be writing this review. This book is not worth the money.