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During a recent conversation with an entrepreneurial friend of mine about ways to supplement income during business expansion and retirement transition, she asked if I had ever considered online teaching.

While I had seen an occasional add or two for doing conversational ESL work over the internet, and heard about the option of teaching academic course materials online, I had to admit I didn’t know as much about the topic as I would have liked.

She told me she had met a gentleman in Colorado who was doing it as a way to be a stay-at-home-Dad while his wife’s job provided the health insurance for their family. Apparently, he really enjoyed this work at home opportunity and the flexibility it allowed for his family’s lifestyle choices. It occurred to me this option would also be appropriate for some forms of long term travel as well. I’m just starting to look into this, but I did a bit of initial internet research and this is what I found.

http://en.ubschool.comThis one was posted recently on the ESL Cafe web site, and looks really quite interesting. A degree isn’t something they are sticklers about, they just want you to be able to carry on a conversation in your native language with English language (and other language) learners from around the world. You just need a fast internet connection, a computer and an internet.

http://teachonlinebook.com/ This web site promotes the services and book of Dr. Danielle Babb and Dr. Jim Mirabella. The book is called Make Money Teaching Online. They also have seminars, workshops and such. I’m putting it on my list of things to read.

http://www.worldwideworkathome.com/teaching.html This site is geared for work at home opportunities. However, I would think this would be very conducive to long term house sitting or single destination traveling where you will have a hookup to internet. Also, the RV crowd might find this of use. This link is for teaching jobs online, and has information on places that offer online teaching jobs. There is also a main section of the site with a job board for other work from home opportunities such as freelance writing, blogging, transcription, etc. There are international telecommuting job opportunities here as well.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/online_adjuncts/ An online discussion group for internet adjunct work at the university level.

http://www.eslcafe.comThis is mostly for regular international teaching, but they do have an occasional posting for online teaching.

Got more info? Sound off, so the rest of us can benefit. Looking forward to hearing from you.

Posted on May 18th, 2007 by Myscha Theriault
Filed under: Carving Out the Cash, Working from the Road