eCoLoTrain

Courses

The eCoLoTrain courses include materials for teaching eContent localisation processes and tools to trainers and teachers of professional translation. They contain guidelines for the best practice in integrating these tools and methods into general and specialised translation classes. The courses are presented in five modules that cover the following areas:

• Information and computer technology (ICT) skills
• Terminology management
• Computer-assisted translation (CAT) tools
• Project management (PM)
• Software localisation 

All materials are designed to support a blended learning approach, combining online distance learning and face-to-face pedagogy.

Guidelines

Initially, eCoLoTrain intended to deliver two types of guidelines for all courses: methodological and didactic. The methodological guidelines were defined as descriptions of all courses for "providing assistance for the development of similar training measures in the translation field". The didactic guidelines were designed to "provide hands-on assistance for trainers and teachers in combining localisation technology with various types of traditional translation classes and teaching scenarios, thus paying particular attention to the didactic needs of the target group".
However, after having extensively reviewed the materials created during the project and listened to professionals from our target group in the several workshops we organised, we concluded that methodological and didactic guidelines cannot be treated as two separate dimensions in the context of translating with translation technology. This is why we have developed guidelines that combine methodological and didactic aspects.