Most affordable online Masters program? Any universitys offer in-state tuition?

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I just wanted to know some basic information on being an online intructor, for example I heard it was very comptetitve to get your foot in the door if you do not already teach classroom classes. Also, I heard a masters degree in the area you want to teach but some schools will accept 18 credit hours such as the WNMU M.A. program. I have no desire to teach classroom but if I got an M.A. in IDS what would be the chances.

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Community colleges ALL offer online classes now, but you have to get a job at the college. At my college, I have seniority in my dept, so I had first crack. We are offering only 1 online class, and it's mine lol. The online version of my class was developed by me too, and so I'll have first right of refusal for as long as I want. If I give up that section, someone else who already teaches my subject in our dept would take it (jump at it).
We would never just take one of our dept classes and advertise outside the department to fill it. Maybe you'd find such a situation, but I find it hard to imagine. Even though my district is large (12,000 students enrolled this semster alone) we never hire full time faculty. (we have 44 or 45, the rest are adjunct)

If you go with a strictly online college, then all the classes are online, but all of the online schools (except maybe Penn Foster) offer bachelor degrees, so they'd require a PhD.

Teaching face to face is really the way to get into the door that you are looking at, but there are always other doors too.