A Study on Simulating Crowdsourcing Translation in Flipped Classroom

As IT dramatically revolutionizes the world; many visionaries have introduced many new pedagogical methodologies and technologies overthe years. Present translation teaching was hindered by the teacher-centeredmode, while flipped classroom meets the challenges of IT revolution well.Crowdsourcing, as an emerging business mode in the era of internet+, builds upthe problem solving strength of the public, is the trend of the times. Likewise,crowdsourcing translation subverts the traditional translation mode. This modeis based on network technologies, translating and proofreading jobs are handedover to volunteers via internet, and the jobs are completed on the wisdom of themasses, which inspires us to try a novel translator training approach. This paperproposes the novel approach to train market-oriented translators via simulatingcrowdsourcing translation model (CTM) in the “flipped classroom”, and analyzesthe effects of the effects of the pedagogical reform. The study is of greatsignificance for translator training and online learning © 2017. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning. All Rights Reserved.