The Open University like many educators uses video and multimedia in their course materials, and through an online presence on sites like YouTube (youtube.com/TheOpenUniversity) and iTunesU (podcast.open.ac.uk). In the UK and across the world, educational bodies and others have a legal obligation to meet the needs of disabled people. Based on international standards (WCAG 2.0) this is widely interpreted as including the provision of captions for the hard of hearing and where appropriate audio description for the visually impaired. The OU has had some success - 95% of OU iTunesU podcasts have transcripts. However, coverage here and in the wider community is patchy in the case of captioning/transcription and minimal in the case of audio description.
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- "Thanks Manish, I really like your concept of CLE Cloud Learning Envirnoment as explained in the...
added to Bob and Sue - Adult Learners returning to Higher Education by Julie Carle on 6 March 2011 - "Thank Manish,
I really like your concept of CLE Cloud Learning Envirnoment as explained in the...
added to Bob and Sue - Adult Learners returning to Higher Education by Julie Carle on 6 March 2011 - "Hi Julie,
Further to your comments on Steve's blog about PLEvsVLE here are my thoughts based on our...
added to Bob and Sue - Adult Learners returning to Higher Education by Manish Malik on 19 February 2011 - "Unfortunately Xtranormal has removed the voices for Bob and Sue making it impossible to create new...
added to Bob and Sue - Adult Learners returning to Higher Education by Julie Carle on 27 January 2011 - The Graduate, Bob and Sue version
new embedded content added to the cloud Bob and Sue - Adult Learners returning to Higher Education by Julie Carle on 17 December 2010 - Bob and Sue preparing for the Tertiary Writers Network Colloquium
new embedded content added to the cloud Bob and Sue - Adult Learners returning to Higher Education by Julie Carle on 6 December 2010 - Transavatarts Sob and Boo
new embedded content added to the cloud Bob and Sue - Adult Learners returning to Higher Education by Julie Carle on 16 November 2010 - Using Online Video (YouTube) in EFL Education
added to How to add captions to a (YouTube) Video by Emma Johnstone on 11 November 2010 - Overview of uTitle Interface
added to How to add captions to a (YouTube) Video by Emma Johnstone on 11 November 2010 - PACCET knowledge for the 21st Century
new embedded content added to the cloud Bob and Sue - Adult Learners returning to Higher Education by Julie Carle on 9 November 2010
