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Author: nightshift

Translation and Localization – Don’t Forget the Context!

Understanding e-learning beyond technology is an essential component of courseware development. Cultural, psychological, and linguistic nuances are no longer a superfluous “add-on” of e-learning design, rather a necessity in a rapidly globalizing world. There exist a number of grammatical problems that arise in cross-language translation such as the misuse of symbols, characters, or definitions. Perhaps […]

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ICS Learning Group Client NAFTC to Receive the ATMC National Excellence in Training Award

ICS Learning Group Client NAFTC to Receive the ATMC National Excellence in Training Award ICS Learning Group’s custom-developed online training program recognized for the ability to meet training objectives in a highly effective and innovative manner. Read online, here FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – October, 2012 ICS Learning Group (ICS), a leading provider of custom eLearning […]

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The LMS vs Courseware Content

As both LMS providers and Content Developers, we are often asked by users from both sides of the aisle to help troubleshoot their courseware delivery issues. Sometimes we have built the ‘bespoke’ lessons for the customer for delivery through their own LMS. Sometimes we provide the LMS for them to deliver their own content.And sometimes we provide […]

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Adaptive or Responsive Mobile Design for eLearning

The need to adapt content to a variety of electronic devices can easily be traced back to the concerted effort for ‘mobile-compatible websites’… There is even a top-level domain established with the vision of everyone having a “.mobi” version of their website available for folks who were visiting via their handheld devices. Fortunately, CSS advances […]

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Adobe Captivate 7, eLS future, subscriptions…

Captivate 7 was released, with a little…smattering fanfare a couple days ago. There’s a pretty good notice on the official Adobe Captivate blog which details the features, and it seems like a pretty great update…but there’s no mention at all of the new release on Adobe’s home page which is kinda…lame. Sure, the Creative Cloud push is apparently […]

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Guest Post: m-Learning with Mobile Devices

E-learning can provide individuals a classroom experience even in their absence. Many people nowadays attend their classes or lectures from a distance, whether at home or from work, through e-learning. In fact, e-learning  can enhance the entire learning process since one only needs to have access to the  internet in order to, in turn, have […]

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Adobe Creative Cloud – Clarity and Concerns

Adobe’s Creative Cloud, a web-based subscription service providing access to all their tools, has been available for about a year now and has reportedly grown to over half a million subscribers. The success has apparently been strong enough for Adobe to now go ‘all in’. The ‘Creative Suite’ product lines will be retired, thus there […]

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Mobile Courseware Development: Captivate 6

Having now developed a few projects with Captivate 6 and delivered that ‘bespoke’ courseware in both desktop and mobile-compatible formats, here are a few notes and findings on Captivate’s mobile support… CP6 HTML Tracker First, the ‘HTML Tracker’ is very helpful! Opening that option (Window > HTML5 Tracker) provides a nice overview of any unsupported […]

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Powerpoint, eLearning, and a Decent Outcome

Few things make an idealistic eLearning developer cringe more than the question, “Can you convert my Powerpoint deck to eLearning that I can load into my LMS?” However, that is a very common approach and tools like Articulate Presenter haven’t gained their global reach for any less of a reason. Powerpoint is a fine place […]

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