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

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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

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

Categories of Disabilities of Students with VISAs Disability CategoryDisability Distribution, By Primary Disability Only Disability Distribution, By Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Disabilities Learning Disability (LEA) ADD/ADHD (ADD) Psychological Disability (PSY) Health Impairment (HEL) 6888 Hearing Disability (HEA) 2832 Visual Disability (VIS) 1820 Mobility and/or Orthopedic Disability (MOB) 1522 Brain Injury (BRA) 910 Temporary Disability (TEM) 44 Autism Spectrum Disorders (AUT) 22 Other Disabilities (OTH) 12 TOTAL532 IndividualsNA Note: Includes students with current VISAs enrolled for Spring 2008 as of 5/5/2008

Categories of Disabilities of Students with VISAs

Students with VISAs, by Primary Academic Program (School/College) College of Letters & Science (L&S)329 Agricultural and Life (ALS)40 School of Human Ecology (HEC)38 School of Education (EDU)37 College of Engineering (EGR)27 School of Business (BUS)14 School of Nursing (NUR)11 School of Law (LAW)9 Division of Continuing Studies (DCS)8 School of Pharmacy (PHM)8 School of Medicine (MED)5 School of Veterinary Medicine (VET)4 Institute for Environmental (IES)3 TOTAL:533 Note: Includes students with current VISAs enrolled for Spring 2008 as of 4/25/2008

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

Survey Respondents Similar response representation for both populations

Technology Ownership Both populations own (enjoy and use) Technology

Survey Respondents - Cell Phone or Handheld

Survey Respondents – Use of Handheld

Survey Respondents – Technology USED!

Survey Respondents – Technology SATISFACTION!

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

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

Survey Respondents – What students are using technology in general?

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

Survey Respondents – Campus Computer Labs

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

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

Web-based - SWD use and barriers CMS / LMS Web-based 88% have courses that use Web-based 22% have experienced access barriers 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

Desire2Learn (Courseware) barriers Library D2L - 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

Major Challenges for 1. Captioning & Transcripts 2. PDF’s 3. PowerPoints

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”

Video Use Trends Internet users online video viewership up 34% from Nov 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

“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...

Faculty Video Use Anticipated

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

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

Captioning & Transcripts – Other Benefits 1. Searchable 2. 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...

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

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

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

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.

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.

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)

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. ___________________ Total: 26 + videos = 4 hours Some videos had transcripts, because they were produced locally 173 minutes were sent to Enablr.com $173

How Files Were Accessed

World Caption Demo World Caption Video World Caption Video available at:

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.

Resources DoIT Web Accessibility Videos ideo/ ideo/ Knowledgebase (Help Desk) Alice Anderson

Survey Respondents

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

eTEACH Example The Storyteller