by Greg Cielec After teaching on the high school level for fifteen years, I found myself in a rut. I still liked teaching, but started to realize…
Author: AdjunctNation Editorial Team
The Boy Scouts of America have a motto that simply says "Be prepared." There is an adage called "Murphy's Law" that says "Anything that can go wrong,…
“C is for competent; it’s good enough for me.” I sometimes sing this little parody of Sesame Street in my head. What this means to me is…
A lot of us laboring in the academic salt mines of adjunctdom tend to just keep grinding on, either content with our lot or hoping things will…
What is the maximum course load that an online instructor should undertake? Does the fact that a person can work at home provide the increased energy and…
How many times have you logged into your college mail accounts only to be overwhelmed by an avalanche of information, and then to realize that none of…
This morning I was standing in an urban classroom teaching the political ramifications of death for Westerners as viewed through a Japanese lens. In a few hours,…
If you have been teaching for at least a semester, you may have noticed that students don’t do the reading we assign them, shocker, I know. So…
The early weeks of a new semester can be a challenge to smile through when an instructor is on a different campus or college each day. At…
Teaching online can provide a great deal of flexibility in a workday. You can teach anywhere and anytime; all you need is a computer and an Internet…