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E learning is completely a new way of learning using electronic media, most importantly internet. In last few years e-learning emerged as a new way to deliver online education. To meet the growing need of online education there are so many companies are into the process of providing a platform for online training and learning. Because of so many benefits e-learning gaining so much importance.As compare to tradition classroom learning, e-learning having so many advantages from both teacher/trainer/tutor and learner’s points of view.Here, are the benefits from learner’s point of view –1. Learner can easily enroll to any course by creating an account.2. Easy to access any course online. This can be self-paced or live courses.3. Lerner can use it from any location and based on his/her interest can join the course.4. In live online session, learner can easily interact with the trainer and can ask questions.5. Learner can download the course material easily.6. Easy to submit the assignment.7. Easy to take online test from any location conducted by trainer.8. As compare to offline learning this is cheap.Benefits from Trainer's point of view -1. This compare to be more interactive method of learning.2. Easy to create the courses in few simple step.3. Easy to upload the course material.4. It saves time. No, need to train individual. Trainer can organize virtual classroom to conduct the live e-learning session and can train any number of learner.5. Easy to evaluate the performance of learner by conducting the online test and assignment.6. Easy to create a course online. No, need to upload course again and again.7. Built-in whiteboard helps trainer a lot.After having very detail analysis, I Identified WizIQ as a perfect elearning software. Below I have listed the feature that makes it so much popular among the tutor/trainer and learner.WebRTC based Virtual classroom Software to provide real time communication from internet browser. There is no need to download any software, plugin, tool and extension. Within minute tutor/trainer can delivery online learning.Video Conferencing - WizIQ supports enhanced audio-video conferencing facility. On real time 5 users can interact have video conferencing with instinctive speaker. 640p live video streaming is available by default. If looking for higher video streaming can go for 720p live video streaming.Server Side Recording - The online class recording is captured directly on WizIQ server, this does not use the bandwidth of your computer and internet to record the online classes. Using smartphone, tab and desktop trainer and trainee can attend the online classroom. The recording is done at the end of the session on the cloud based library in MP4 format. WizIQ supports full-HD 1080p video recording feature.Advanced Interactive Whiteboard - The interactive whiteboard helps trainer to draw, illustrate, show diagram, create image and can play videos using whiteboards. With the help of whiteboard trainer and tutor can teach subjects like mathematics, physics, chemistry and more, where the use of diagram is very important.Easy to Collaborate - WizIQ supports so many features that makes the online teaching interaction more interactive. Live chat helps students to interact easily during live online tutoring session. Live not only supports interaction between teacher and student but also provide way to interact with the batch mate.Screen Sharing - Trainer/tutor can easily share his/her screen with learner in a form of whiteboard interface. In real time learner can see the illustrated diagram. Easy to share the application open in laptop with all the attendees. Also provide remote assistance to the attendee’s screen. This play a very important role in group collaboration, online demos and remote support.Live Polling - Live polling can make any online learning more interactive. During the session trainer can organize the poll relating to questions and make the interaction more interactive.Cloud Based Library - Cloud based library helps trainer/tutor to upload any type of course content of any format. The virtual storage makes the content uploading fast and perfect.Code Editor - Using code editor trainer/tutor can teach programing language to the student online. Code editor is equipped with syntax checker and syntax highlighter that make the teaching of programing more interactive. Easy to highlight the syntax error, highlight the part of code, easy to guide the complete logic of the code and more.Online Exam Builder - To evaluate the performance of learner, trainer/tutor can organize online test. Supports multiple type of test - true/false, MCQ and more.e Learning Analytics - Provide deep insight on course relating data. Using this teacher/trainer/tutor can check the effectiveness of the course. Based on the data, implement the required changes and make course more effective.Easy to Integrate - If you already have the system, it can easy integrate using API. Easy to integrate with other e-learning solution like moodle, wordpress, joomla and more using API.Mobile Learning - Using mobile and tab student/learner can take the online courses from anywhere. The WizIQ app is compatible with every type android, windows and IOS device.

Now teaching online is very simple and easy. Before moving ahead, you need to answer below mentioned questions.1. Are you looking for a complete online tutoring platform?2. How much budget do you have to invest?3. Are you looking for a platform that support online and offline payment?Based on your answer you can opt the best platform to teach online. A part of that i would like to suggest a perfect and complete e-learning platform that can meet all your online teaching requirement. WizIQ is a perfect, secure and robust cloud based e-learning delivery platform. Corporates, trainers, colleges/universities can use WizIQ to create and deliver the self-paced, blended, live online classes and elf-paced courses.Features Overview -WizIQ offers virtual classroom software to have real time communication from any internet browser. No need to download any software, plugin, flash and extension.By following few simple steps, you can create online courses. It supports almost all types of course content file like text, audio, video, PPT, HTML, PDF, etc to upload over the cloud based library. The user interface is very simple and self-explanatory, that helps you to create different types of courses on any subject and host over the cloud library. It supports the functionality to structure the course as per your requirement. The virtual storage makes the content uploading fast and perfect.Provides a perfect platform to host different courses and test prep over the market place to earn money, if anyone buy it. WizIQ not charging any fee or commission.Offering a rich online learning environment with multiple options to engage learners. The learner can easily access the content from the cloud library. Learner can easily enroll to different courses based on his/her interest.WizIQ’s video conferencing software helps you to establish real time online interaction with 5 users at a time. 640p live video streaming is available by default. If looking for higher video streaming can go for 720p live video streaming.Easy to record online classes. The online class recording is captured directly on WizIQ server, this does not use the bandwidth of your computer and internet to record the online classes. The recording is done at the end of the session on the cloud based library in MP4 format. WizIQ supports full-HD 1080p video recording feature.Interactive whiteboard helps trainer to draw, illustrate, show diagram, create image and can play videos using whiteboards. With the help of whiteboard trainer and tutor can teach subjects like mathematics, physics, chemistry and more, where the use of diagram is very important.WizIQ supports so many features that makes the online teaching more interactive. Live chat, white board, code editor, poll and more helps students to interact easily during live tutoring session.Easy to share screen in a form of whiteboard interface. In real time learner can see the illustrated diagram and understand it. Easy to share the application open in laptop with all the attendees. Also provide remote assistance to the attendee’s screen. This play a very important role in group collaboration, online demos and remote support.Using code editor trainer/tutor can teach programming language to the student online. Code editor is equipped with syntax checker and syntax highlighter that makes the teaching of programming language more interactively. Easy to highlight the syntax error, highlight the part of code, easy to guide the complete logic of the code and more.Easy to create online test and quiz of multiple type to evaluate the performance of learner.Provide deep insight on course relating data. Using this teacher/trainer/tutor can check the effectiveness of the course. Based on the data, implement the required changes and make course more effective.WizIQ supports white labelling with custom URL feature that helps you to remove any type of reference of the vendor. WizIQ is a perfect e-learning software offer much more than white-label and URL customization. It helps you to deliver online live classes from your existing LMS, CMS, and website using WizIQ virtual classroom plugin. Easy to integrate your existing system with WizIQ by using API. WizIQ provides API for Moodle, Blackboard, Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Canvas, Edmodo, Totara, eFront, sakai and more.Using mobile and tab student/learner can take the online courses from anywhere. The WizIQ provides mlearning which can be accessible using android, windows and IOS mobile phone.Using e-commerce functionality tutor can earn online based on student’s/learner’s enrollment. It supports multiple options for online and offline payments (net banking, Paypal, CC Avenue and more).Easy to scale as per the requirement.WizIQ has been used by 400,000 education and training service providers and 4.5 million learners.Try for free by signup.

This question asks specifically about community college. I can speak to my experience as a newly tenured faculty member at a California community college. It is just my experience but a lot of it is typical for California.The TL:DR is the hard part is getting the tenure track job. The word “tenure” has scary connotations at the research university level. But this is not the case in the community colleges. Tenure is not a foregone conclusion but it is very rare that a tenure track faculty member does not earn tenure as long as they stick through the process. Part of the reason for this is that the jobs are highly competitive. It is unlikely for an unqualified candidate to make it through the hiring process.As far as my background, I have a bachelors degree in mathematics and a masters degree in pure mathematics. After graduate school I spent about a year working as an Actuary and another two years working in market research (doing a lot of data analysis). I started teaching as an adjunct and a community college in January of 2010 for the Spring semester. I took a second adjunct position in another district for the Fall semester (August 2010). By the time that semester ended I had decided this was the career I wanted. I started looking for full time work.One thing that was in my favor was that I was teaching mathematics. The largest departments in California community colleges are Math and English (ESL is usually up there). This meant that in the San Francisco Bay area there tended to be between 10 and 15 job openings a year. In many other fields there may not be any positions opening. One year I went to the area meeting of the Mathematical Association of America (I go most years). One of the talks was given by a sculptor who had developed a 3D marble maze game with some mathematics involved in the design. He was an adjunct sculpture instructor at a large Bay Area. He said that in 25 years of teaching there had never been a tenure track position open in his field.Tenure track positions open up on a yearly cycle. Hiring season is between about November and May. My second year of teaching I started to take applying to jobs seriously. But I didn’t get interviews. I got an interview at one of the schools where I was teaching and one in Portland (yes Oregon). The same thing happened the following year. My third year teaching I must have crossed a threshold where the screeners could check the “experienced” box. I got 8 interviews that year.The hiring process for a tenure track mathematics position goes as follows. Your application starts at HR. They have negotiated screening procedures with the math department. Typically the application requires you to submit a detailed work and education history, transcripts, a resume and cover letter, and then you usually have answer somewhere between 2 and 10 essay questions about your background, experience, teaching philosophy and your experience or intent regarding the role of faculty in the governance of the college. Some schools would ask me to explain a specific mathematical concept in writing or submit an exam covering specific material. Some schools asked me to submit one of my syllabi. Just submitting the application could easily be 20 hours of work. This was the case for a while until I had done enough applications that I could borrow from writing I had previously done.If you got past the HR screening your application would be sent to the math department’s hiring committee. Their job was to wittle the list down to no more than 20 candidates. Then those candidates would be invited for a first round interview.The first round interview typically consisted of a teaching demonstration and more teaching philosophy questions. Sometimes there would be math questions (aimed at answering sample student questions). Candidates would be informed ahead of time of a topic or topics and told to prepare a 10, 15 or 20 minute lesson on that topic. The interview would also include questions about teaching background, role of tenure track instructor, how to spot math anxiety. Every one of these interviews would ask how we acommodate teaching students with a wide variety of backgrounds. These interviews typically took about an hour. I would usually spend about 20 - 30 hours preparing for each teaching demonstration.From 2010 to 2015 I was invited to 30 tenure track first round interviews.After the department level interview the department would rank the candidates and cut the list down to 3 - 5 candidates. Those candidates were sent forward to the Presidential round interviews. I have been to four of these. These interviews usual were given for the president of the college and at leaset one of the Vice Presidents. Most also included representatives from the District management (the Chancelor’s office). They were primarily interested in the candidates background and how they would serve the institution. I was even asked what I saw the role of the faculty member in reaching out to the community. The job of this committee is to choose which candidate(s) to fill the open position(s). Technically those candidates have to be approved by the board of trustees but the only reason why those recommendations would not be rubber stamped is if the district had experienced serious financial hardships. I have only been given one job offerOk, now the tenure process. There might be some variation but most California community colleges have similar processes. For me it was a four year process. A tenure committee was formed. It consisted of two faculty from my department (thanks to math being a large department) and a Dean. My committee happened to include my Dean, who was technically my supervisor but it didn’t have to be that way. When I was hired I was hired for a one year contract. The first year the committee had to decide whether to recommend me for a second one year contract. The second year they were decided whether I deserved a two year contract. Then they got two years to decide whether to grant me tenure which comes with a “continuing contract”. The first two years I was evaluated in both Fall and Spring semester. The last two years I was only evaluated in the Fall. At the end of Fall of my fourth year my team recommended me for tenure. The Vice President of Instruction and the President of the college reviewed my tenure file and approved it. In April of 2019 the Board of Trustees (an elected body) approved my tenure as well as 8 other faculty at my college.Evaluation meant that each member of my committee had to observe two of my class sessions (usually for about an hour). Each class, the students would have to fill out surveys to give me and my team feedback on my effectiveness as an instructor. I also had to write a self-evaluation report describing what I was doing to stay current in the field. How I was planning on improving my teaching, and what I was doing to serve my responsibilities to the college. At the end of every semester my team would meet with me to report on what they saw and give me advice on what to work on for the next evaluation. Documents of those reports were put in my tenure file. The biggest take-away was that my committee was impressed with my skills creating a safe learning environment where my students felt comfortable speaking up when they needed help. That I had creative and effective ways of using technology as part of the learning process. They were particularly impressed with the way that I would immediately take feedback from them or from my students and seek out ways to improve my teaching in those areas.Ultimately the goal of a well designed tenure process should just that. To ensure that the tenure candidate is motivated to improve themselves as an instructor. That they have the tools to do so. And that they will do their part to serve the institution. Teaching is a constant job of improvement. A teacher is never 100% effective but the best ones are always striving to get there.A community college is similarly never 100% effective but should always be striving for that goal. Faculty play a crucial role in that struggle for improvement of the institution. Tenure track faculty must find areas of college governance where they are passionate in working to improve how the college is run.Gaining tenure was technically a four year process. But that ignores the hard part. Spring of 2019 I was awarded tenure. That was my 19th semester teaching. When I was adjunct I taught summer classes too. Even before I realized I wanted this career my life experience was contributing to the success of that ambition. My three years of industry work allow me to tell my college students what working in an office is going to be like for them. And how statistics can be applied in the real world. My graduate work gave me intuitive understanding of mathematics so that I know how the math I teach works behind the scenes. I also taught classes for 3 years in graduate school. I came to my undergraduate institution knowing I wanted to teach eventually. I got experience tutoring and assisting instructors. I took math education courses an participated in a program designed for students wanting to become high school teachers. My first teaching job was at age 16, teaching swimming. I did that from age 16 to age 20.So you can decide. Getting tenure at a community college was a fairly enlightening 4 year experience. But it was a culmination of 9.5 years of teaching experience. I had been developing as a teacher for 24 years.