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Student Technology Use: Who, What, How, When, Where and Why

University of Wisconsin-Madison. Student Technology Use: Who, What, How, When, Where and Why. Alice Anderson, Technology Accessibility Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison November 12, 2009 @Accessing Higher Ground. University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Student Technology Use: Who, What, How, When, Where and Why

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  1. University of Wisconsin-Madison Student Technology Use: Who, What, How, When, Where and Why Alice Anderson, Technology Accessibility Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison November 12, 2009 @Accessing Higher Ground

  2. University of Wisconsin-Madison and ... who cares? ... or should care?

  3. University of Wisconsin-Madison Facts • Location: Madison, Wisconsin • Founded:1848 (First class: February 1849) • Campus: 935 acres (main campus) • Enrollment: 42,041 • Budget: $2,191,700,000 (2006–2007) • Chancellor: Carolyn “Biddy” Martin

  4. University of Wisconsin-Madison Enrollment of SWD (that have registered with McBurney Disability Resource Center at UW-Madison (1998-2009) • 1998, 779 • 2000, 874 • 2002, 848 • 2004, 770 • 2006, 600 • 2008, 532 • 2009, 798

  5. Categories of Disabilities of Students with VISAs Note: Includes students with current VISAs enrolled for Spring 2008 as of 5/5/2008

  6. Categories of Disabilities of Students with VISAs

  7. Students with VISAs, by Primary Academic Program (School/College) Note: Includes students with current VISAs enrolled for Spring 2008 as of 4/25/2008

  8. SWD - Technology use and barriers What UW-MADISON Students with Disabilities (SWD) ... tell us about technologies they use, and barriers experienced. CMS / LMS

  9. Survey Respondents Similar response representation for both populations

  10. Technology Ownership Both populations own (enjoy and use) Technology

  11. Survey Respondents - Cell Phone or Handheld

  12. Survey Respondents – Use of Handheld

  13. Survey Respondents – Technology USED!

  14. Survey Respondents – Technology SATISFACTION!

  15. Campus Kiosks Over 100 Free Standing Computers (Kiosks) in 30 Campus Locations!

  16. Survey Respondents – What students are using technology for in school?

  17. Survey Respondents – What students are using technology in general?

  18. Survey Respondents – What students are using technology for school and in general?

  19. Survey Respondents – Campus Computer Labs

  20. Survey Respondents – Campus Computer Labs

  21. Registration and Registrar’s On-line Resources NEW in 2009! – Scholarship Application - online application is for UW-Madison students who plan to be enrolled 2010-11 academic year.

  22. Survey Respondents ALL Students at UW-Madison own, like, and use technology! in high percentages, and those percentages are growing!

  23. Web-based - SWD use and barriers 88% have courses that use Web-based 22% have experienced access barriers Web-based • Access barriers identified: • Videos were not captioned • Transcripts for audio files were not provided • Could not enlarge text (PDF’s and Web pages) • PDF’s saved as image files • Animated/moving text with small font CMS / LMS

  24. Desire2Learn (Courseware) barriers D2L Library • Videos used were not captioned • Videos & audio used were poor quality could not see or hear • PowerPoints not readable • didn’t use the notes section • Text on page would not center when printing • Navigation confusing • Could not upload material consistently • Crashes, slow performance issues

  25. Major Challenges for SWD @UW-Madison Captioning & Transcripts PDF’s PowerPoints

  26. Video Use and Higher Education Professors and students are hungrier than ever to use video in the classroom and in their research, but they still have trouble getting the materials they need. White paper "Video Use and Higher Education: Options for the Future.” “Video Use in Higher Education” http://tinyurl.com/m7xxwx

  27. Video Use Trends • Internet users online video viewership up 34% from Nov 2007-2008 • Every minute 13 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube • Age is not a factor – everyone is partaking • Soon, more people will access the Internet through mobile devices than through desktop computers

  28. “world beyond words” Our cultural shift today – from book literacy to screen fluency where video is the new vernacular – a “world beyond words” where television, movies, and the audiovisual work will, like books, find themselves with tables of contents, indexes and abstracts, rendering them searchable to the minute if not the second ...

  29. Faculty Video Use Anticipated

  30. Americans Who Use Captioning • 4th airports • 3rd sports bars • 2nd gyms • 1st: couples in the bedroom when one wants to sleep and the other wants to watch TV

  31. Captioning - History 1950ies - used for translating foreign languages First experiments with steno machines First open captioned TV programs 1972 - Julia Child’s “The French Chef” 1973 - Rebroadcasts of ABC News First Line-21 TV closed captioning system developed 1976 - by the FCC First real-time closed captioning program 1982 - ABC “World News Tonight” Law mandating all TV’s over 13” have built-in decoder 1993 - Congress passed the “Television Decoder Circuitry Act”

  32. Captioning & Transcripts – Other Benefits Searchable Students reviewing concepts 3. Studying in noisy environments 4. International Students 5. Children learning to read 6. Not disturb others 7. Technology audio problems 8. More . . .

  33. Case Study at UW-Madison • Large on-line class • Lectures • Readings • Quizzes • Videos (26+)

  34. Case Study at UW-Madison • Faculty notified that Deaf or HH student(s) will be enrolled in class • Course converted to on-line • 26 videos

  35. University of Wisconsin-Madison World Caption Tool . . . to the Rescue

  36. Captioning Brian Deith, UW-Madison helped create the Digital Academic Television Network (DATN), which lets campus users watch live television on their computers designed the controller for the DATN (Digital Academic Television Network) and has developed a way to transform closed captioning from digital television signals to text, allowing researchers to search and archive this trove of information etc. etc.

  37. Captioning & Transcripts – Basic Types Postproduction(Off-line) : Captions created and added after a video segment has been recorded and before it is aired or played. Real time (on-line): Captions created and displayed at the time of program origination.

  38. Hours to do the captioning Transcripts were checked for accuracy when received Transcripts added to videos Timing of transcript (synchronization) adjusted Review for accuracy and cross platform Total hours to caption files: 4 to 1(4 hours for 1 hour video)

  39. Getting Transcripts - Enablr 20.6MB 2020bigger.wmv - 9 min 20.1MB 2020eating.wmv - 9 min 30.0MB abcirrad.wmv - 13 min 5MB baldo.wmv - 7 min 8MB beefpack.wmv - 8 min etc. etc. ___________________ Total: 26 + videos = 4 hours $173 Some videos had transcripts, because they were produced locally 173 minutes were sent to Enablr.com

  40. How Files Were Accessed

  41. World Caption Demo World Caption Video available at: http://www.doit.wisc.edu/accessibility/video/

  42. NEXT STEPS Campus Media Captioning Solution a means for capturing, obtaining transcripts, captioning and publishing classroom lectures, public speeches, video and audio resources over the web, DVD, etc. http://www.doit.wisc.edu/accessibility/captionPilot.asp

  43. Resources DoIT Web Accessibility Videos http://www.doit.wisc.edu/accessibility/video/ Knowledgebase (Help Desk) http://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/ Alice Anderson alice.anderson@doit.wisc.edu

  44. Survey Respondents

  45. eTEACH • Flash based multimedia application that delivers PowerPoint presentations that are synchronized with audio and/or video. Presentations are made accessible through captions and also a screen reader output of the presentation About eTEACH, including demos

  46. eTEACH Example The Storyteller http://africa.wisc.edu/thestoryteller/

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