Google Docs as a Collaborative Translation Platform

This is an interesting video, and a useful one for trainers and teachers who are embarking, or willing to embark, on using technology and e-tools to support their own and their students' training needs.

Google Docs can serve as a platform to import, store, process, edit and post-edit translation documents. The most interesting part is that it can also host collaborative working environments, in or out of class, in virtual or online settings, which enhance learners' transferable and generic skill sets.

What Is Interpreting?

A clear introduction to what interpreting is, from the UK's National Network for Interpreting – a good first reading for new students.

What is interpreting? (National Network for Interpreting)

Rethinking Private Higher Education

A University World News piece on rethinking private higher education – relevant to the growing private HE sector in the Gulf and MENA.

Rethinking private higher education – University World News

Sir Ken Robinson on Creativity, Learning and the Curriculum

Sir Ken Robinson on creativity, learning and the curriculum – a reminder that curriculum design is about people, not just outcomes.

MA Translation Studies by Distance Learning

A presentation of an MA in Translation Studies delivered by distance learning – a model worth studying as online translator education grows.

Do Online Students Cheat More Often?

An infographic asking whether online students cheat more often than their face-to-face peers – a question every online or blended programme has to face.

Do Online Students Cheat More Often? (e-Learning Infographics)

Noam Chomsky on Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Noam Chomsky, in 2013, on Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed – essential viewing for anyone who thinks about education as more than skills delivery.

The History of Learning: An Infographic

An infographic tracing the history of learning – a quick visual primer for education discussions.

History of Learning Infographic (e-Learning Infographics)

Andragogy: The Adult Learning Theory in an Infographic

An infographic summarising andragogy, the theory of adult learning – a useful reminder that our translation students are adults and learn as adults.

The Adult Learning Theory – Andragogy – Infographic (e-Learning Infographics)