ABSTRACT
The forced modality transition to online learning created panic and concern about the quality of education received by students worldwide. While eLearning and distance learning are not new practices, most faculty did not have the training or resources for the appropriate design of online courses to promote student success. The pandemic pedagogy created by COVID-19 placed students and faculty into an unfamiliar online realm filled with uncertainty, technology failures, and equity issues. This chapter will review the design of authentic online courses amid a pandemic, including a brief case study of an institution given three days to transition to online learning. The transition from a lecture-based, in-person course to a fully online course with social distancing is challenging, though faculty and students can excel in the course through proper training, design, and pedagogy.
