Ensuring Successful Knowledge Transfer in Multilingual eLearning

 

Whether you are a chief learning officer or content manager who is seasoned at overseeing global content management, or whether you are a training or HR manager who is being asked to reach other language audiences for the first time, you face an ever-growing list of considerations to truly achieve knowledge acquisition across linguistic and cultural barriers. Whatever your experience level, chances are there is pressure from executives and product managers to produce localized learning content as rapidly and economically as possible...while achieving the same expected level of understanding among learning content audiences. Rarely do those internal customers recognize the complexity of your charge…the conflict between what they are demanding and what is required to make it a reality. So, exactly what big-picture and in-the-trenches issues do you need to consider, and how can you effectively address them while at the same time delivering on internal and external expectations? In this whitepaper you will find best practices amassed through working with leading global companies on learning.

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Research Study: Multilingual Product Content: Transforming Traditional Practices into Global Content Value Chains

In the spring of 2009, Jonckers sponsored an exclusive research report produced by the Gilbane Group called "Multilingual Product Content: Transforming Traditional Practices into Global Content Value Chains." The Gilbane Group conducted in-depth, qualitative research on the content value cycle.  Download the full report where you will learn some of the key trends uncovered, next set of opportunities identified, and best practice customer profiles featuring Jonckers customer Adobe Systems. 

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Choosing a Strategic Sourcing Model for Localization

If you’re responsible for your company’s localization efforts, you may be caught in the same conundrum as many of your counterparts—you need to make big decisions about how to best structure your localization program and team, but it’s tricky to match your ever-changing needs with the right solution. And what’s more, you don’t really have time to sort it out. Download this paper to learn best practices on choosing a strategic sourcing model for localization.

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Optimizing Graphics Localization

Within a localization project, images often create additional challenges to the localization process. The most obvious and important challenges are the additional costs and time impact to the project. Understanding the challenges and opportunities of the file types and options in respect to their impact on an overall global production cycle can help to create a more efficient environment.  As you read this paper, you will find tips on technical and cultural aspects of graphical content, of which can help to considerably reduce localization costs and delivery time for both localization clients and vendors. 

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Localization for eLearning: Using Best Practices to Build on Global Opportunities
As organizations seek to differentiate themselves within the international marketplace the level of support and training can be literally the global deal breaker. Combined with this economic effect the rapid response of the software market to this opportunity means that eLearning courses are now simpler and more cost effective to produce then ever before. In this paper we discuss both Strategic and Tactical elements, there is a good chance that by the very nature of the discussions the reading audience will be split.  However, our hope is to encourage an understanding of both elements within all readers as we believe a realization of both strategy and tactics are critical to long term success.

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Research Study: Multilingual Communications as a Business Imperative: Why Organizations Need to Optimize the Global Content Value Chain

While most organizations recognize the need to address localization and translation in tandem with content creation and management, they are often stymied, even overwhelmed, by how to achieve this. The Gilbane Group has released a new study, sponsored by Jonckers, that is intended to shed light on the current state of content globalization and the challenges facing companies who are impacted by new business mandates for improved multilingual communications.

This study was designed for enterprise adopters and buyers of technologies and services for producing high-quality multilingual content. The study is meant as a tool for educating executives and staff who might not be aware of the significant impact that investment decisions in multilingual communications have on the organization’s ability to compete effectively. It will help program and project managers learn from the experiences of other companies, and it will provide insight into selling upper management on making better investments.

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Machine Translation and its impact on L10N
One of the original anticipated uses of computers was machine translation. By Machine Translation (MT) we mean the automation of the translation process. In the 1950s a primitive experiment of translating sixty Russian sentences into English was deemed a success and resulted in a period of significant funding for research. It was thought that with this new technology 'old-style' human translations would soon become obsolete. However, for several reasons this never happened and 'old-style' translation practices are still dominant in the localization industry.

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Achieving Greater Global Gaming Revenue
The challenges that face an organization wishing to maximize their international gaming revenue fall into two broad categories; strategic and tactical. For the global gaming market the strategic focus involves buy-in support and a commitment to establishing strategic direction and a set of goals. Tactics, on the other hand, are the specific actions that go into delivering the goals. Both of these areas are discussed in much greater detail in the paper, both are required to reach the maximum possible potential of any situation – including the revenue opportunity of the global marketplace. Read this paper to gain insight on best practices in strategic planning for taking games global, as well as tips for overcoming the tactical challenges of game localization. 

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