• Saturday, February 18, 2012
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Adjunct at Work

As an adjunct, one of the biggest struggles when first teaching an online course is deciding what to use. Face it, you want to make the course your own, but you’re just not being paid enough to go to the trouble of creating links and all those other nifty features. That’s why Piss Poor Prof, a regular at Burned Out Adjunct, advises using the publisher’s materials or hand-me-downs from previous teachers. You can change what you need — and a little cost-benefit analysis is in order. “Build as little as possible,” Piss Poor Prof says.