Graduate Student Research Symposium 2025

A framework for developing authentic and meaningful Hawaiian Studies online courses needs to be considered as the University of Hawaiʻi system seeks to promote a decolonized, indigenized, and Native Hawaiian place of learning, per the system’s various university and college strategic plans. As Hawaiian Studies departments begin to embrace distance education in the wake of Covid-19-led instructional modality shifts, as both students and faculty begin to favor this mode of instruction to better fit with their lives, and, as the entire UH system moves from the Laulima to Lamakū learning management system, conscious and purposeful curriculum design needs to first re-envision traditional Hawaiian practice for online education and then incorporate these approaches into course design to better perpetuate the practice of kānaka ancestors into the future of Hawaiʻi.