Make Money Teaching Online: How To Land Your First Academic Job, Build Credibility, and Earn a Six-Figure Income

Length-34 minutes, 52 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of  Psychjourney, interviews Danielle Babb, Ph.D, MBA , co-author of Make Money Teaching Online: How To Land Your First Academic Job, Build Credibility, and Earn a Six-Figure Income written by Danielle Babb, Ph.D., MBA, and Jim Mirabella, DBA, published by Wiley.

Danielle Babb, Ph.D., MBA

Danielle Babb is an accomplished faculty member working for many online universities. She teaches courses in technology management, information systems, statistics, research, and management. She is also technology professional with years of experience in the real estate industry and now consults for real estate organizations. She has worked as an IT Leader for over ten years at several Fortune 500 companies, and currently teaches a full load of courses while consulting and writing.

Dani has a PhD and an MBA in Organization and Management with a Technology emphasis. Dr. Babb has written and presented numerous papers on technology and business, and has become a specialist in the field of technology's impact on business. She is a faculty lead at schools and mentors doctoral learners through their comprehensive and dissertation process.

Dani has helped numerous individuals break into the field of online teaching. She's an expert in the process of finding schools, maintaining and increasing workload, and providing quality instruction to students. She regularly helps individuals both break into the field of online teaching and build their careers. She currently resides in Newport Beach, CA. Visit her website.

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[Make Money]

Teaching online is one of the areas I've considered pursuing after college. It would be a perfect job to be able to mix internet marketing with teaching. :P

[Ryan G]

Excellent post. Even those that feel they don't have any teaching ability to offer will probably know of someone who does, but does not know how to online. So collaboration can also work very well.

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[Melissa Davis]

For several years, I have worked as an online "instructor" with 4 international and well known (publicized and attended) universities and have found that none of the administrations actually promotes or requires teaching. Essentially, professionals who have limited or no real teaching experience but a minimum of 3-5 years of professioal experience in their related areas and a Masters level degree (minimum of 18 credit hours in the related area) are recruited to serve as facilitators, not teachers. In fact, in all of my 3 years, I have never been allowed to actually teach, rather to grade papers, respond to students' within the traditional discussion forum and their emails and questions. I have spent most of my time grading papers and no time actually teaching. As for instructions, that experience has been limited to explaining the directions of an assignment as most online undergraduate students I have encountered have problems following and adhering to simple directions, poor reading comprehension, critical thinking and writing skills.

Further, the typical online program has a universal, standardized syllabus, which contains pre-designed discussion questions and written assignments. To date, I have found none that were permitted the "instructor" to design or modify assignments or discussion questioins, rather to simply grade them. Further, students are indirectly encouraged to ignore the "instructors" questions and comments within the discussion forum, which is purportedly designed to allow the instructor to share valuable knowledge to the students. Students are required to answer the discussion question and respond to a minimum of 2 of their classmates to earn full credit. At no time are they required to respond to the instructor, which effectively diminishes the value of the instructor's expertise and presence in the online environment.

Online programs and distance learning programs are not the same in that the former simply provides an online platform or system in which students can enter to post comments, ask question and submit written assignments. The student and teacher interaction is limited to emails and the discussion forum, and teaching does not take place. Essentially, students are left to teach themselves via their books and other sources, namely internet based sources. However, distance learning tends to offer an educational environment that is conducive to teaching and learning in that students outside the physical campus have access to the traditional classroom via the internet and advanced technology. These students are fortunate in that they can actually see, hear and interact with the instructor during the actual class period.

Further, I have found that the typical online program charges an excessively high tuition and yields a very low return to the student. For example, at the University of Phoenix, students pay $1800 for a 3 credit hour undergraduate course. The class typically consists of 20 students; that's a whopping $36,000 for one course. The instructor is paid $950 to facilitate the course. The university incurs no expense in that the student and instructor are responsible for having access to a computer, the internet, and a place to perform their respective work.

In the end, undergraduate students, many of whom are not academically prepared for college, lose in that they incur massive amounts of debt and develop no real knowledge and/or skills that will help them in the job market. Society also losses in that many students are receiving government sponsored financial aid in the form of grants that are paid for by tax dollars.

Online "teaching" is an easy way to make money and perhaps the best part-time position one could have. However, each of us are a part of a system that exploits a population of people whom we would not likely be willing to hire.