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TCLoc Master’s Degree Curriculum

Check out TCLoc’s teaching units and courses provided by our instructors, experts in technical communication, localization, and related fields!

Project Management for Translators: How Agile is Your Translation Process?

By Majdi Jeridi

Created in the early 1990s for software development, the agile approach can design, shape, and manage an entire IT project. Unlike traditional methods that are considered too inflexible, slow, or easily outdated, agile development places the customer at the centre of a project in order to adapt quickly to changes. Agile development methods, such as Scrum and Extreme Programming, reduce change costs by implementing principles, reference values, and validations, which lowers post-project costs.

From Free Online Courses to Online Master’s Programs: Studying Localization in the Digital Age

By Timothy Najmolhoda

As localization continues to grow as both an academic and professional discipline, more and more avenues for learning it continue to pop up. Traditional educational environments continue to offer many options for students, but as time goes on, would-be learners are finding online education to be an increasingly strong option. There are several free online courses available. An online master’s program like TCloc is just one example of the different options available.

Artificial Intelligence in Translation: Future Role of Human Translators

By Michael Weber

Could it really be? A Breakthrough after decades of research in machine translation? Microsoft have recently stated that their machine translation research team has reached ‘human translation quality’. This leads to the question: Will translators soon be replaced by machines? This article will shed light on the future role of human translators and linguists in the era of artificial intelligence (AI) and neural machine translation (NMT).

Translation Project Management: The Good Practices Guide

By Anne-Sophie Leroy

Translation project management can be very challenging when the project is complex  or voluminous. In order to ensure the highest quality content, the translation project manager has to follow the several steps of the translation project, while scrupulously meeting the deadlines set by the client. Discover how to perfectly manage your translation projects by reading this article.