Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning: Barrier-Free MultimediaRobert Wyatt, Director of Distance Education & Leyla Zhuhadar, Instructional Designer, Western Kentucky University Western Kentucky University Bowling Green Kentucky, enrollment about 18,000

The Office of Distance Education (ODL) provides support for: ~ 200 faculty ~ 400 online course offerings ~ 10,000 enrollments per year

Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning: Barrier-Free MultimediaThe Story: How ODL efforts to assist faculty with ADA 508 compliance in their online courses led to development of multimedia manymedia and a captioning system for online materials. Motto: Always an Opportunity to LearnMultimedia: Not just audio and video Audio and video with annotations Audio and video Podcasts Vodcasts Powerpoint slides Transcripts Better than multimedia? Manymedia; all generated from a single presentation by faculty member.

Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning: Barrier-Free MultimediaManymedia solution for students Full presentation Vodcast Podcast (not shown)Transcript Power point slides

Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning: Barrier-Free MultimediaFull presentation Software called Tegrity Easy to useNatural Teaching method Creates Audio/Video/.ppt/annotations

Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning: Barrier-Free MultimediaFull presentation Software called Tegrity. Features: Slide and timing menu

Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning: Barrier-Free MultimediaFull presentation Software called Tegrity. Features: Slide Index

Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning: Barrier-Free MultimediaFull presentation Software called Tegrity. Features: Search (any word on the .ppt)

Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning: Barrier-Free MultimediaFull presentation Software called Tegrity. Features: Printable .ppt slides Much more

Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning: Barrier-Free MultimediaADA compliance - Captioning Many, many recorded lectures Need for captioning

Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning: Barrier-Free MultimediaADA compliance - Captioning Many, many recorded lectures Tegrity Captioning tool

Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning: Barrier-Free MultimediaADA compliance - Captioning Many, many recorded lectures Tegrity Speech Transcription Engine

Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning: Barrier-Free MultimediaADA compliance - Captioning Many, many recorded lectures Tegrity Speech Transcription Engine Allows Search for certain words

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Week 1 Familiarize yourself with Blackboard READ the Syllabus and course policies Week 1 Virtual labs (Intro & Pill bug) Study for Quiz 1 (M-W) Repeat next week Week 1 Familiarize yourself with Blackboard READ the Syllabus and course policies Week 1 Virtual labs (Intro & Pill bug) Study for Quiz 1 (M-W) Repeat next week Week 1 Post questions to Forum Repeat next week Good Luck, Study Hard

Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning: Barrier-Free MultimediaADA compliance - Captioning Many, many recorded lectures Tegrity Speech Transcription Engine Allows search for certain words Transcriptions not meant for reading.

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Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning: Barrier-Free MultimediaADA compliance - Captioning Many, many recorded lectures Tegrity Speech Transcription Engine Allows search for certain words Transcriptions not meant for reading. Other means

Tried other speech recognition software (direct from Tegrity recording to Software) Requires training of software by user Too many users and not enough time Wanted to ease burden on facultyWreck a nice beach

Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning: Barrier-Free MultimediaADA compliance - Captioning Along comes Pocasting Audio only recording WAS a podcast

Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning: Barrier-Free MultimediaADA compliance - Captioning Along comes Pocasting Audio only recordings REALLY require captioning Audio is a good accessibility tool for some

Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning: Barrier-Free MultimediaSummary Part 1 At the end of the journey, accessible manymedia solution for students from one presentation. Full presentation Where audio accompanies .ppt with screen annotations

Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning: Barrier-Free MultimediaSummary Part 1 At the end of the journey, accessible manymedia solution for students from one presentation. Vodcast/Podcast Podcast From Audio only version of full presentation Vodcast from video portion of presentation Enhanced Vodcast (entire video + .ppt)

Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning: Barrier-Free MultimediaSummary Part 1 At the end of the journey, accessible manymedia solution for students from one presentation. Printable Power point slides Could be used with podcast.

Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning: Barrier-Free MultimediaSummary Part 1 At the end of the journey, accessible manymedia solution for students from one presentation. Transcript Can be used with power point slides

Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning: Barrier-Free MultimediaSummary Part 1 At the end of the journey, accessible manymedia solution for students from one presentation. Captioned Full presentation

Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning: Barrier-Free MultimediaThe Story: How ODL efforts to assist faculty with ADA 508 compliance in their online courses led to development of manymedia and a captioning system for online materials. Motto: Always an Opportunity to Learn

By deconstructing and captioning the Tegrity presentations we created a large and diverse set of learning media for the student that can be used in a variety of ways. The Faculty only create one presentation.

Leyla Zhuhadar Doctoral student in Computer Science at The University of Louisville and an Instructional Designer for the Office of Distance learning at WKU. She will talk about the captioning system we built and how students use the manymedia.Robert Wyatt, Director of Distance Education & Leyla Zhuhadar, Instructional Designer, Western Kentucky University

Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning: Barrier-Free MultimediaBuilding A Captioning SystemDeconstructing Tegrity PresentationVideo files (different format)Power point presentation files (thumbnails images, slides images,)Browser filesAudio filessearch filesClosed-captions fileDownloadable files(PC, Mac)help filesGUI files (Interface)

Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning: Barrier-Free Multimedia

welcome to management 333 managing non profit organizations my name is Linda Johnson and I will be your instructor this semester for this course in the year 2000 I left my very comfortable surroundings on the hill at Western Kentucky Universityto create a not for profit organization called CITE the center for technology enterprise located here Bowling Green, Kentucky after three years this fall I of scaling creating and scaling a multi million dollar ..................can be found in the staff section of this course.

Closed-captions file (An XML file) Using tagging formatSplitting each session into 15 sec (Trial & Error method)Synchronicity between the video/Audio and the transcript

Building A Captioning System

Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning: Barrier-Free Multimedia

Welcome to management 333 managing non profit organizations my name is Linda Johnson and I will be your instructor this semester for this course in the year 2000 I left my very comfortable surroundings on the hill at Western Kentucky University .................. can be found in the staff section of this course.

XML-file (closed-captions)Tegrity lecture with closed-captionsMapping XML-file (closed-captions with Tegrity LectureBuilding A Captioning System

Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning: Barrier-Free MultimediaBuilding A Captioning System Writing a Java program An automatic parser which generates the XML-file (closed-captions): As input: 1)Transcript file 2)Duration of the lecture (hh:mm:ss) 3)Increment steps (15 second) As output: XML-file

Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning: Barrier-Free MultimediaBuilding A Captioning System Distance Learning Teamwork

Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning: Barrier-Free MultimediaRobert Wyatt, Director of Distance Education & Leyla Zhuhadar, Instructional Designer, Western Kentucky University