Themes in Translation: Course Design in a New Modality

Abstract

This article explores the design and implementation of an academic course that takes undecided students through an intentional exploration process to find their degree-granting major. With the framework of an existing face-to-face class, a need to create an online asynchronous offering, and a desire to dig deeper into the best pedagogy and use of technological tools, the authors (instructor and instructional designer) collaborated to wrestle through the key questions of teaching and learning to best achieve desired outcomes in new ways. An essential element of this story, then, is the dialogue between instructor and instructional designer to bring the course goals to fruition.