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Friday, October 25, 2002
http://www.elearningmag.com/elearning/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=32337 Learning Perspectives: Globalizing and Localizing e-Learning Elliott Masie The MASIE Center and e-learning magazine recently hosted 260 learning professionals from 19 countries for a dialogue titled "Taking e-Learning Global." I learned a great deal listening to the hopes, aspirations, and frustrations of multinational, multilingual and multicultural e-learning implementations. Here are a few lessons and questions from that dialogue: Business decisions about localization: Organizations are forced to make hard economic decisions about the degree of investment in specific localization efforts. If you have 6,000 employees who speak Spanish, it is an easy decision to invest in translating and localizing. But what if you only have 30 people who speak German? What is the cost/benefit analysis of making that decision? Here the conversation quickly focused on the cost of not localizing. What other languages do the German employees speak? What is the operating language of the business in Germany? Are there blended learning compromises, such as authoring the core content in English and enhancing it with context, FAQ, and collaboration in German?...
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