Organizational Clarity: “Is Google Translate the Wrong Choice for Course Translations?” article

The CommlabIndia community is another group decided to easy, cheap solutions to meet an organizational need within the various aspects of Organizational Development whether it is training sessions or meeting presentations. In this article: “Is Google Translate the Wrong Choice for Course Translations?” which lists five important points why not to use Google Translate, if you have used Google Translate before you know it is not exactly accurate. When Google Translate incorrectly translates text, it can lead to further confusion, misunderstandings and possibly insulting potential international employees and clients.

These are the five reasons why not to rely on Google Translate for your organization's main translation device for documentation used on a global scale:

1. Google Translate is not 100% accurate

2. Google Translate relies on educated guesswork

3. Google Translate makes several iterations

4. Google Translate cannot accurately decipher complex grammar

5. Google Translate cannot find an exact match for idioms

Whether your organization is using Google Translate for translating the text for a training program, an online Private message, or even important company documentation any errors can waste time. Money and other resources that are considered valuable to the organization and its clients. In a world with rapid responses thanks to email, instant messages and texting there is a lot of room to make mistakes and misinterpret messages that are in our native language but that level of failure in communication heightens with languages and cultures different from our own.

Add the fact most of us use Google for everything from emails to translation of basic text our interdependence of this technology can be our undoing, and this article briefly discusses five reasons why not to put our full trust in such technology.

If you want to know more just click the link here:
http://blog.commlabindia.com/elearning-translations/google-translate-for-course-translations

Organizational Clarity: Free E-book (download) "Get Your Course Development On Track Choose the Right Authoring Tool"

I have found another free download from CommlabIndia which is great for us cash strapped professionals and organizations!  This is a free e-book in pdf format from the 7 books series called “Get Your Course Development On Track Choose the Right Authoring Tool” this short e-book talks about choosing the right authoring tool (of course) to get your organization’s e-learning processes up to speed, started or even updated.

The article starts with the five major influences to your decision in picking the right tool for the job:

• Training requirement
• Nature of content
• Multilingual requirements
• Publishing options
• User-accessibility features

After listing these major factors the e-book looks at nine authoring tools which are:

1. Articulate Storyline 2
2. Articulate 360
3. Adobe Captivate 9
4. Adobe Presenter 11
5. Lectora Inspire 16
6. Lectora Online 3
7. iSpring Suite
8. Claro
9. Gomo Learning Suite

Then the article goes on to listing the five major challenges businesses face and then links up the program that will be the best solution (tool) for that challenge. The E-book also has a comparison chart that that is great for additional comparison if necessary so that when you choose the right authoring tool you will be able to explain why the decision or recommendation was made.

Here are the challenges that are listed in the E-Book:

Challenge 1: Rapid Conversions

Challenge 2: Interactive E-learning

Challenge 3: Quick Translations

Challenge 4: Responsive E-learning

Challenge 5: Ease of Online Review

After reviewing the E-book and you see that the information is useful for your purposes in choosing the right authoring tool go ahead and download. Just click on the link here for your free download:

https://www.commlabindia.com/elearning-components/ebook/7ebooks-5-get-your-course-development-on-track-choose-the-right-authoring-tool-commlab.pdf

Organizational Clarity: Free E-book (download) "Id strategies and e-learning"

Guess what? here is a Free download from CommlabIndia!  This is a free e-book in pdf format from the 7 books series called “id strategies and e-learning” this short e-book talks about e-learning through different types of learning:

• Guided Learning
• Scenario-based Learning
• Game-based Learning

Also, it talks about different types of strategies to use for E-learning:

• Visual Strategy
• Audio and Media Strategy
• Assessment Strategy

Of course, all these approaches and strategies are based upon your organization’s capabilities, resources (budget!) and the organization’s needs. So although these are brief commentaries on the aspects of E-learning it is still all based on your situation to apply them as you see fit.

Just click on the link here for your free download: 

https://www.commlabindia.com/elearning-components/ebook/7ebooks-3-id-strategies-and-elearning-commlab.pdf

Organizational Clarity: "How to Manage the Course Authoring Process Like a Pro" article

Although the article is based on the assumption that you are using Articulate programs for Course Authoring it does have three great tips in time management since most of the time during this process is focused on project management. In this article: “How to Manage the Course Authoring Process Like a Pro” by Trina Rimmer there is a brief three tips (with additional quick tips given) listed in the article on how to streamline this process and make it less challenging of the course author.

As we all know time is one of the scarcest resources that we may have especially when a client is very motivated or desperately needs an e- learning program to teach its employees new methods and procedures so that the client maintains its hold onto or increases its market share, increases productivity or even increases its ROI.

This article covers three tips:

• ·         Prep Like a Project Manager
• ·         Get Organized
• ·         Streamline Communications

Although these sound like common sense tips, under the gun and rushed for time we may forget these basic procedures. So if you want to know more, please click on this link for the article:

https://community.articulate.com/articles/how-to-manage-the-course-authoring-process-like-a-pro