Anyone considering teaching part time online, make sure you know what you are responsible for when you accept a class.
The pay is $1,500 a class which is less than what I can make per credit hour at a community college. I know, you can work from home, but when classes have new students or 20-24 students it takes 15 hours or more for a class each week and a lot of time on calls to students.
The classes are 5 1/2 weeks long compared to 16 weeks at a CC, but I still spend 2 times the amount of time in a class online than at the college. I do have to shower, get dressed and commute to the CC, but still only spend 9-10 hours weekly including commute and just 2 days a week on campus. If they had more classes for me I would gladly take them.
At AiO you are required to check classes 5 days a week and grade assignments within 48 hours. Plan on giving up part of a Saturday or a Sunday every weekend, or do what I do and check classes daily, being in the class every day makes it easier to catch projects that were turned in late.
The AiO dean is requiring us to call every student who is late with assignments (90% of them) or has 72% or lower grade and they gave us each access to an app we can use to make VoIP calls instead of using a personal number, that is a very nice perk. Just found out they use Grasshopper so they can track and monitor our calls to students. Micromanaging is all the assoc. dean has the talent or skills to do, heard him in a meeting, he’s a joke and yes man.
We have always had to call students, we did have to call every one of them week 1 for a while, but they changed that rule. I have had to use my personal number for calling students and always worried about it. A lot of students turn in assignments 1-2 days late and if you grade the way you were graded in college, few would have over a C-.
We are required to make videos to post for every students’ assignment once a week and for every assignment to show them how to do it.
There are 12 required hours of faculty development annually, this is not easy when you work another job, and they can be expensive. AiO offers a few faculty development classes but they are very childish, amateurish and unprofessional. It does not seem that the presenters even understand the topics at times and they present like you might present to a middle school student, not a professional with a masters degree.
The dean keeps adding more work and requirements but no additional pay or incentives.
It’s not for everyone.