Designing a Virtual Training Environment for Localisation

Amparo AlcinaNúria Vidal

Universitat Jaume I de Castelló

Presented at the 11th Annual Internationalisation and Localisation Conference

Dublin, 25 October 2006

eLearning for Localisation

• High demand for qualified professionals• IT applied to training• eLearning > flexibility and interactivity

Didactic objectives

Cognitive Procedural Attitude

Intellectual capacity

Skills Attitude

•Memory•Interpretation

•Problems

•Imitation•Control

•Automation

•Contact with professional

situation•Observation

Course structure

• 1. Introduction to localisation• 2. Terminological resources• 3. GUI Localisation• 4. Help Localisation• 5. Documentation Localisation• 6. Cultural issues

eLearning

• Distance• Flexibility• Interaction• Contents and lab• Automatic assessment

Case study: Localization module of Postgraduate Course on Technologies

of Translation and Localisation

• Virtual training environment based on Moodle

1. Materials module2. Communication module3. Activities module

Materials module (I)

•Compose a text page•Compose a web page•Link to a file or web site

Materials module (II)

Figure 1. Course contents

Communication module

•Dialogue•Forum•Chat

Activities module (I)

•Quiz•Assignment•Wiki•Glossary

Activities module (II)

Figure 2. Quiz

Activities module (III)

Figure 3. Assignment

Activities module (IV)

Figure 4. Glossary

Conclusion

•Academic support•Broad scope•Telework•Future of eLearning