Landing Online Teaching Jobs

By Chloe Yelena Miller

You’ve decided to teach online, and now must secure the job that will give you the opportunity. How do you apply and land a job? Your application must emphasize your ability to use technology. Do you maintain or publish any of the following?

– Personal or professional website
– Regular and relevant blog
– Guest blog posts on related blogs
– Online articles
– Participation in or administration of online communities

Many of us participate regularly on social networking sites like Facebook. You should also look for interactive communities that are focused on your discipline or on teaching, and get involved there as well. I cannot emphasize enough the importance of maintaining a healthy and appropriate online presence. Potential employers will do an online search for you if you are a serious candidate.

It is likely that your cover letter will include a variation of the line, “I am comfortable using technology.” How do you prove this? Discuss the technology that you know how to use, as well as examples of employing technology in classes, and you can demonstrate the catch-all phrase to be true.

Many institutions like the continuity of having the same faculty members both online and in-person. When you apply, be sure to emphasize how you will offer the same academic challenges, support and community online as you would in the physical classroom.

Continued at: http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2011/04/29/essay_on_how_to_land_a_job_teaching_online

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