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Title: Using Technology to Access the ClassroomInstruction
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Using Technology to Access the Classroom/Instructi
on
- Barbara Keefe, Sharon Downs, Shannon Aylesworth,
Bambi Riehl
PEPNet Family Training Conference Monday,
4/26/05, 100 pm
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Agenda
- Rationale for Making Online Courses Fully
Accessible - Virtual Learners
- Project ADEPT
- (Accessible Distance Education for Postsecondary
Teaching) - PantherCom Video Interpreting
- PantherCom Remote Captioning (Speech-to-Text
Transcription)
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Rationale for Making Online Courses Fully
Accessible
- Universal Design in Instruction
- Technology is advancing, and services must
advance with it - Required under the ADA
- Students online experience must be fully
accessible, just as if the student were sitting
on campus in a classroom
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Distance Learning andDistance Accommodations
- Synchronous
- Asynchronous
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Broadband Network
- Needed for access by students who are deaf and
hard of hearing - High speed communications to simultaneously carry
- Voice
- Video
- Data
- Communications of at least
- 1.5 to 2 megabits/second
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Accommodations
- Securing accommodations
- Teleservice Staff --or-- Disability Support
Staff? - Interpreters or speech-to-text providers
- Delivered over network?
- Competent in content area? Who determines?
- Accommodations different if class is synchronous
or asynchronous?
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Technology Concerns
- Problems with technology?
- How to access missed content?
- Videotapescaptioned or interpreted
- Multi campus environmentwho provides
accommodation?
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Considerations
- Seamless ASL delivery
- Broadband needed in both directions
- Captioning in synchronous classes
- Encoders needed at broadcast site
- Video is Bandwidth-hog
- Bigger pipes easier traffic flow
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ADEPTAccessible Distance Education for
Postsecondary Teaching
- Instructor lecturing
- PowerPoint presentation
- Sign Language Interpreter
- Captions
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ADEPT Challenges
- Where to film
- Bandwidth
- Long process
- Technical glitches
- Lecturestaff time ratio
- Coordinating so many players
- Determining which courses get this service
- Posting accessible videostreams quickly
- Requires tight quality assurance controls
- Process requires planning, technology, expertise,
funding, and collaboration - Signing space of interpreter
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ADEPT Highlights
- Flexible use for deaf, hard of hearing, learning
disability, ADD - Access to videostreams same time as other
students - Students can review videostreams repeatedly to
aid with comprehension - Other students are educated about accommodations
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ADEPT Misc.
- SMIL technology for captions allows for resizing
- New program allows faster addition of captions
(still in testing stage)
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PantherCom Video Interpreting
- Three year grant between Wisconsin DVR and
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - Originally intended for DVR client appointments
technology is now being piloted in a
postsecondary environment - Using web cameras and the Internet to provide
video interpreting to a remote campus which has
an interpreter shortage
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PantherCom Video Interpreting
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PantherCom Video Interpreting Challenges
- ?Bandwidth
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- Sound and picture quality
- Remote training for instructor and student
- Questions or comments from students
- Visual information/ handouts
- Roles/responsibilities
- Invisibility
- Small group work
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PantherCom Video Interpreting Highlights
- Access to more interpreters for rural areas or
campuses experiencing shortages or fluctuating
need - WIN/WIN no travel time for anyone
- Provides diverse interpreting experience for our
staff interpreters and job security at their home
campus
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PantherCom Remote Captioning
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PantherCom Remote Captioning Challenges
- Accent/Lecture Style
- Learning Curve
- Remote Training for Instructor and Student
- Questions or Comments from Students
- Visual Information
- Technology
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PantherCom Remote Captioning Highlights
- Less Set-Up Time
- Reduces Travel Time
- Eliminates Equipment Transport
- Extends Student Access to Captioning Services
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Summary
- Variety of service delivery options using
technology - Investment of time, energy, and funds are
required - Develop collaborative relationships with IT
departments, faculty, and administration - Anticipate learning curve for everyone
- Anticipate inevitable technology glitches
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Resources
- www.ualr.edu/adept
- www.uwm.edu/dept/panthercom
- This presentation and handouts are available at
- www.ualr.edu/sotac/pftc05
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