Mainstreaming Digital Talking Book production By Douglas G Blane Technical Co-ordinator Digital Audio Project D. G. Blane@open. ac. uk www. open. ac. uk/disability Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
Acronyms CSS DAISY DDA DTB DTD HTML OU PDA PDF SENDA SMIL VLE W 3 C XML Cascading Style Sheets Digital Accessible Information System Disability Discrimination Act Digital Talking Book Document Type Definition Hypertext Mark-up Language The Open University Personal Digital Assistant Portable Document Format Special Educational Needs & Disability Act Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language Virtual Learning Environment World Wide Web Consortium e. Xtendable Mark-up Language Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
‘The human mind is a fire which has to be set alight … we take this as our ambition’ Lord Crowther The Open University Chancellor 1969 Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
Introduction • • • Background Types of student disabilities Why mainstream DTB production? Structure is the key OU production workflow OU production processes Mainstreaming beyond disability Looking into the future A student’s perspective Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
Background 180, 000 students actively studying with the OU 10, 000 (5. 6%) OU students registered as disabled Not all disabled students studying with the OU register as disabled with the OU All statistics based on 2007 data Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
Types of student disabilities Fatigue / Pain 3904 Mobility / Physical 2926 Mental health 2448 Manual skills 1914 Other 1735 Dyslexia 1606 Sight Unseen disability Hearing Personal care Speech Autistic spectrum 938 854 693 669 351 58 Students may have more than one disability Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
Why mainstream DTB production? • • Increase number of courses available as DTBs Decrease our costs to produce DTBs Provide DTBs & other e-formats for all students Meet students individual preferred learning styles Provide “structured” MP 3 files for all students Decrease our costs to distribute DTBs via the web / VLE Comply with SENDA & DDA legislation Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
Structure is the key • The Open University Structured Authoring system • Provides structured outputs in XML, Word, HTML, PDF etc • Allows automated transformation into DAISY Digital Talking Books Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
Structure is the key • The Open University Structured Authoring system Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
OU Production Workflow Print layout PDF Word XML Web forms Editors: Illustration Editors: Audio Visual Other inputs Learning objects Structure: Schemas DTDs Formatting for Publishing HTML VLE DAISY DTB Structured MP 3 Other outputs Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
OU Production Workflow Print layout PDF Word XML Web forms Editors: Illustration Editors: Audio Visual Other inputs Learning objects Structure: Schemas DTDs Formatting for Publishing HTML VLE DAISY DTB Structured MP 3 Other outputs Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
OU Production Workflow Print layout PDF Word XML Web forms Editors: Illustration Editors: Audio Visual Other inputs Learning objects Structure: Schemas DTDs Formatting for Publishing HTML VLE DAISY DTB Structured MP 3 Other outputs Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
OU Production Workflow Print layout PDF Word XML Web forms Editors: Illustration Editors: Audio Visual Other inputs Learning objects Structure: Schemas DTDs Formatting for Publishing HTML VLE DAISY DTB Structured MP 3 Other outputs Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
OU Production Workflow Print layout PDF Word XML Web forms Editors: Illustration Editors: Audio Visual Other inputs Learning objects Structure: Schemas DTDs Formatting for Publishing HTML VLE DAISY DTB Structured MP 3 Other outputs Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
OU Production Workflow Word XML Structure: Schemas DTDs Formatting for Publishing DAISY DTB Structured MP 3 Other outputs Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
OU Production Workflow Word OU Structured Authoring OU XML DAISY DTB DAISY XML Structured MP 3 Other outputs Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
OU Production Processes Course material OU handcrafted processes OU DTB software Human voice OU DTBs Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
OU Production Processes Course material XML OU handcrafted processes DAISY Pipeline Easy Publisher Easy Converter OU DTB software Synthesised voice Mixed synthesised & human voices Human voice DAISY DTBs Structured MP 3 Other outputs OU DTBs Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
OU Production Processes Course material XML DAISY Pipeline Easy Publisher Easy Converter Synthesised voice Mixed synthesised & human voices Human voice DAISY DTBs Structured MP 3 Other outputs Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
OU Production Processes Course material XML DAISY Pipeline Easy Publisher Easy Converter Synthesised voice Mixed synthesised & human voices Human voice DAISY DTBs Structured MP 3 Other outputs Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
OU Production Processes Course material XML DAISY Pipeline Easy Publisher Easy Converter Synthesised voice Mixed synthesised & human voices Human voice DAISY DTBs Structured MP 3 Other outputs Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
OU Production Processes Course material XML DAISY Pipeline Easy Publisher Easy Converter Synthesised voice Mixed synthesised & human voices Human voice DAISY DTBs Structured MP 3 Other outputs Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
OU Production Processes Course material XML DAISY Pipeline Easy Publisher Easy Converter Synthesised voice Mixed synthesised & human voices Human voice DAISY DTBs Structured MP 3 Other outputs Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
Mainstreaming Beyond Disability • DAISY DTB software player – Cost – Platform dependent Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
Mainstreaming Beyond Disability • DAISY DTB software player – Cost Free OU DTB Player based on a business model similar to Adobe Acrobat Reader Increase potential DAISY DTB usage in to the mainstream market Increase potential demand for DAISY DTBs Increase potential market share Increase potential revenue Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
Mainstreaming Beyond Disability • DAISY DTB software player – Cost Free OU DTB Player – Platform independent Web browser plug-in OU DTB Player Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
Mainstreaming Beyond Disability • DAISY DTB software player – Cost Free OU DTB Player – Platform independent Web browser plug-in OU DTB Player Can be used on Windows, MAC, Linux, Unix, PDA, mobile phones, other Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
Mainstreaming Beyond Disability • DAISY DTB software player – Cost Free OU DTB Player – Platform independent Web browser plug-in OU DTB Player Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
Looking into the future • Further integration of academic learning structures into the DAISY standard Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
Looking into the future • Further Integration of academic learning structures into the DAISY standard • Integration of OU & BBC co-produced television programmes into DTBs Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
Looking into the future • Further Integration of academic learning structures into the DAISY standard • Integration of OU & BBC co-produced television programmes into DTBs • Integration of multimedia content into DTBs Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
Looking into the future • Further Integration of academic learning structures into the DAISY standard • Integration of OU & BBC co-produced television programmes into DTBs • Integration of multimedia content into DTBs • Mobile content for mobile devices Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
A student’s perspective Over to Susan Baxter… You can watch this video online through The Open University You. Tube area: www. youtube. com/user/The. Open. University Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
Digital Audio Project Disabled Student Services The Open University Walton Hall Milton Keynes MK 7 6 AA www. open. ac. uk/disability Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
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