When Most Fields Are Firing, Get Your Degree in a Field That is Hiring

The U.S. economy has been badly disturbed by the actions leading up to the recession and a lot of jobs have been given up in this traumatic process. Through these hard times, several individuals from different fields and industries have been badly influenced - from business to retail to communication and food; it appears that nothing and not a single soul has been secured from the ruthless lane of damage taken by this long-lasting recession.

But wait, there are fields that are still booming and hiring more workers. Yes, these certainly are the fields of health care, technology and particularly, education.

For instructors who have been in this field for a long time and think themselves veterans, it is without any doubt a favorable time to take huge career measures in an industry that still hires even in the miserable economic outlook. Now, coming to the aspiring teachers, those who are standing at the edge of crossing over from high school and are looking to take up education as their major in college or for those who are in other fields but are keen to undertake teaching as a career, the decision to engage in teaching as a profession might be one of the most sensible choices you can make in light of the hindered growth of various other fields of work.

A good number of teaching positions, now though, ask for at least a college degree, even teacher's assistant positions. Therefore, the road to your teaching career, quite decently, goes through additional education.

Reasonably, you would wish to plunge yourself straight away into the work and start earning an income instead of wasting your time and money sitting in a classroom studying, surely this doesn't have to be the case. Luckily, technology has paved the way to allow distance education in the form of online degree programs that offers students the convenience to work and study at the comfort of their home. Receiving such an education online will enable you work when you want, without even leaving your home. The best part certainly is that you can keep your job while acquiring a teaching degree.

Sheila Danzig is founder of Degree.com, http://www.degree.com and Career Consulting International, http://www.TheDegreePeople.com and BG Publishing International. Danzig holds a Bachelor's degree from Hunter College of the City University of New York, a Masters degree from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, and a Doctorate from Universidad San Juan de la Cruz where he is currently a professor. Danzig has co-authored a paper on the acceptance of the 3-Year Indian degree which has been published at IMMIGRATION DAILY among other publications worldwide. The books she has written include, One Year to Your College Degree, The Big Book of College Scholarship and others.

Online Teaching Colleges Rocket Personal Income

The number of online teaching colleges, which includes all state-funded and for-profit academic institutions that offer accredited online degree programs, can hardly be counted anymore because the technology required to offer new and returning college students an online bachelor degree, an online master degree or an elementary education degree online has finally reached a level of maturity that would have been unimaginable a decade ago. Necessarily, the demand for qualified online academic administrators with graduate degrees in the technology-heavy subject areas that involve expertise in supervisory and administrative tasks is also ballooning at an unprecedented rate.

Along with the growing need for actual instructors that can navigate a digital college classroom, there is a need for educators who have degrees such as an Ed.S. Educational Technology, a Master's in Instructional Technology, a Master in Education with a Concentration in Technology in Education, and for those that want to teach online instead of administer school educational objectives to a group of online adjuncts there is the Master of Arts degree in Teaching and Learning with Technology. Thus, the two levels of academic labor, instructors and administrators, are in very high demand, and those who earn these advanced college degrees will be placing themselves at the head of the economic line as the sheer demand for online distance education grows exponentially over the next ten years. Many people today who already have a bachelor degree are in the market for a master degree or a doctorate degree because they see the acquisition of an advanced degree as a way to greatly improve their economic and professional positions once the economy recovers from its recent fall. In any layered organization with a strictly defined, position-oriented chain of authority, and college administrations are very strictly defined by salary and duties, there is a need for leadership skills, and these leadership skills can be acquired by attending and successfully matriculating through one of the various online teaching colleges.

Online Teaching Colleges Have Jobs

As more and more college students find their way to an online college course, it will become more and more necessary to have administrators with, for example, a Master's in Instructional Technology on board the academic hierarchy. The tasks of writing core curriculum for the many English, math and history online classes will fall to the administrative leaders with expertise in curriculum strategies that are functional and worthy of accreditation, and this one area of leadership is considered extremely valuable to the school because if the class materials do not pass muster then it is difficult to maintain accreditation, and accreditation is the brass ring, so to speak, of any legitimate academic institution that offers an online education college degree. Another area of academic expertise that is very desirable is group training online. Just because a college teacher has a master degree in math does not mean that they can utilize a digital grade book for sixty or ninety students. It also does not mean that the online adjunct knows how to upload graphics and video to the online college classroom. These skill sets are learned, and it is the task of the administrators of the online school to teach them to the adjunct faculty.

Therefore, the administrator who can, for example, teach online college instructors the particulars of the copyright laws that apply to the utilization of external multimedia teaching components is likely to find themselves in high demand by online bachelor degree programs that have hundreds of online adjuncts teaching thousands of college students earning online degree. Similarly, the academic who adds a graduate degree in the area of technology integration specialization, which mean incorporating additional digital educational features into an existing academic platform to a graduate degree in a core curriculum area is doubly valuable to community colleges, colleges and universities that are in the process of building out their online education platforms to meet the growing student need for more online university programs.

Online Teaching Colleges Double Duty

Anyone who is prepared academically to apply to an online teaching program in order to earn a Doctor of Education in Instructional Technology should already possess an earned Master degree, which means that while the doctorate is being earned it would be feasible to actually teach online and thus reduce or possible eliminate the tuition costs associated with earn a terminal degree. This is very often the case at traditional on-ground colleges and universities since the schools, students and teachers all benefit from the instructional involvement of doctoral students in the undergraduate online college classes. So, it is entire possible for a doctoral student to teach at online college teaching jobs while enrolled in an online teaching college. Every day more and more post-secondary experts that spend decades studying academic evolutionary trends insist that the community college, college and university of the immediate future will be found online and that new and returning college students will be offered more opportunity to earn their college degrees online.

As a matter of course, everyone who has earned a graduate degree owes it to themselves to investigate the career opportunities offered by both online adjunct faculty jobs and administrative distance education technology and curriculum openings because online teaching and the support it needs to be truly valuable to college students trying to improve their lives by earning a college education is now an industry of global proportions. The role that online teaching colleges are playing and will play in this academic industry cannot be overstated and there will be strong, well-paid opportunities for those who follow its lead into the future.

Michael Greene teaches full time online for online teaching colleges. He is convinced that the next leap forward for post-secondary education will take place on the Internet, and this leap will result in unprecedented opportunities for online teacher education.