Category Archives: Business Issues
Macro SMEconomics 101
This article was inspired by Learning Circuits’ Big Question for September 2009. One of the fundamental tenets of management says that you must manage your business around your scarcest resource. Over the past year, priority options collapsed to just one item – money. It’s easy, in these desperate times to think that the money constraint [...]
eLearning Design Patterns
The concept of a design patterns was originally recognized and popularized by Christopher Alexander to make sense of the manner in which architects (of buildings) could so easily generate their designs. He identified a design pattern as a construct that: “describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes [...]
Modernizing the Knowledge Supply Chain
I wrote a blog article a little while ago entitled 'Video Speaks Every Language'. I thought it made a useful point about the difficulty of transmitting technical knowledge across cultural and linguistic borders. However, the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I had seen this problem before. Then it hit me. Its just another supply chain.
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Video Speaks Every Language
Text-to-text translation is an inherently risky process. There are at least 5 distinct intellectual steps in the process of sending text-based expert knowledge to someone in a different language and culture. Each step demands the engagement of a motivated, knowledgeable expert to move the information forward to the next stage.
Options for Embedding Video IN a Document File