In assessing and prioritizing a situation to determine how you are going to manage your time, there are clearly a lot of unknowns for the first time onlilne teacher, particularly if they are going to be expected to create, test and provide technical support for content they created and then administer the class as well, versus an online teacher that is only administering an established course or program and not having to do all of those additional tasks up front to establish and create the class, the content, etc. I'm sure a lot of online teacher workload depends on how deep an organization's pockets are, and how much they can reasonably (or unreasonably) expect from online teachers in today's national education environment. Since many high schools and colleges only offer non-tenure positions on a contract basis (no job security, no medical benefits, no paid sick time, good odds that they are not going to be renewed, etc.) the question really becomes how much daily / weekly time and effort is someone willing to do in order to get (and keep) a teaching job? If the workload expectation from management is completely unreasonable, no amount of time management is going to save you.
