Technology services

With over a decade of experience as a production specialist for education providers, CAPDM has developed and proven a broad range of technologies that support:

• more effective authoring and peer review of academic materials;
• the enhancement of licensed and custom learning environments;
• professional localisation and translation processes;
• the provision of specialist web service components for delivery and administration;
• the in-house availability of professional book & journal production services.

CAPDM helps authors to expand the range of tools that can be used during programme development, and to overcome unexpected authoring hurdles quickly and efficiently. We can help to accelerate the authoring processes, in order to maintain momentum and motivation, and to ensure that the developed programme is complete, consistent and ready on time for production and launch.

CAPDM's learning environment enhancement services include making your existing VLE more effective, with richer content and more useful features. They also help you to become more independent of your current VLE, by keeping your materials maintained consistently outside of it for print purposes as well, and by enabling you to support multiple different VLEs from your knowledge domain.

The benefits of CAPDM's language and translation services include features such as: re-using course materials to lower translation costs; translating and updating an integrated set of course materials; efficient use of translation memories to speed translation and improve accuracy and consistency; and checking course materials in and out of a revision control system enabling repository management and change tracking. In addition, our batch production approach enables the rapid and frequent generation of multi-lingual proofs for quality assurance purposes, and faster updating and re-branding of final versions for multiple delivery partners and environments.

CAPDM's book and journal production services provide a unique opportunity to set-up your own in-house publishing capability for all of your own academic materials. Using CAPDM's innovative XML based production approach for learning materials, these services incorporate:

• in-house support for peer and academic review processes;
• a professional production process that includes third party editorial, indexing and quality assurance capabilities;
• menu-priced production costs that are highly industry competitive in comparison with off-shored alternatives;
• minimised cost of providing complex textbooks to on-campus students;
• retained ownership of all intellectual assets and rights on all media;
• assets secured and maintained under a single information architecture, for long term development and re-use;
• faster localisation, translation, re-branding and customisation of the learning materials;
• faster time to market for new distance or blended learning programmes;
• populating richer print and online learning environments with multiple course components such as assessment materials, case studies, simulations and reusable learning objects;
• support for an author's own authoring tools and processes;
• synchronous release and digital distribution of print and online versions from single master sources;
• seamless embedding of textbooks and journals within any course environments;
• a way to have your own modern academic press and knowledge repository.

For more information about our technology and integration services, or if you would like to talk to us about a specific need, please contact us.