Locating a Position with an Online Degree

I would agree with some of what has been said, but I would encourage you to think carefully about your chances. I would look at the CV's of professors at the type of institution where you would like to teach. If you want to teach at a particular type of institution and you see that scholars in your field publish in certain types of journals, you'll be expected to publish in those journals as well. Publications are great (and congrats!), but colleges are looking at more than just the amount of publications . Are you publishing in journals with a high 'impact factor'? If you are concerned about other parts of your Vita, I would do things to assure 'brick and mortar' schools that you are competitive with other candidates. Do the same things that other candidates would do (or would have done?). Go to professional conferences that you would be expected to attend and try to teach a course or two at a 'b and m' school.

I am part of a research project that is looking at non-traditional educational pathways (including graduate for-profit education). I don't know if this applies to you, but I've seen quite a bit that worries me about many for-profit programs. They often create educational structures (journals, conferences, awards, etc.) that are not integrated with the larger discipline in any meaningful way. For many students, this means that zero publications or ten publications would look the same (ditto for conference presentations). I wish you the best, but please carefully consider whether or not your education prepared to be competitive for the type of job you would like. If it did, congrats! If not, think about how much work it would take for you to be competitive.

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