EDUCAUSE | transcripts

An Interview with Grant Crawford

mpasiewicz — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 09:20:20 -0600

In this 11 minute recording, Grant Crawford, Director of Technology Initiatives at Midwestern Higher Education Compact guides us through the work of his organization, shares some thoughts on the Spellings report and more.

An Interview with Jerry Bracken

mpasiewicz — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 09:20:12 -0600

In this 10 minute recording, we'll hear from AACRAO's VP for Information Technology, Jerry Bracken. Listen in as he shares some thoughts on key issues of interest to registrars, the Spellings Report, and EDI trends of interest.

AACRAO - American Association of Collegiate Registrars
http://www.aacrao.org

An Interview with Michael Sessa

mpasiewicz — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 09:20:28 -0600

In this 19 minute recording, we'll hear from Michael Sessa, the Executive Director of PESC, the Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council. Listen in as he introduces PESC, progress on the standards front and much more.

Course podcasts

hes8 — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:46:32 -0500

The use of podcasts brings an assymmetry into a learning style area. Converting text into audio has been reasonably well solved by "screen reader" technology.

Podcasts provide the audio but some learning styles would be more comfortable with the addition of text. People with auditory impairments may need the text.

As podcast usage becomes more common in education, the need for a good (accurate, fast, inexpensive - no, "pick any two" isn't acceptable! :-) conversion method grows.

The old method was dictation/transcription, which is expensive and slow . Its accuracy can be excellent if more expense and more time is allocated. The expense is high enough to keep transcriptions being routinely made for all recorded lectures and podcasts.

There are more and more speech-to-text technologies being announced. Many are still in the laboratory or under development. I'm hoping that we will see a number of these available in the next year, and at affordable prices.

This would greatly help learning. I hope it's not another attack of vaporware!