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Gerald Schmidt
Learning and Teaching Solutions
The Open University
Producing DAISY talking bookswithout manual intervention
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Open Educational Resources in the mainstream• OpenLearn is about to join the university’s central VLE platform
• As OpenLearn and OU courses share a single production schema, all
features available to our accredited courses will also be available to
OpenLearn
• Pizza effect: many of these features were in fact first implemented by
OpenLearn
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Open Educational Resources in the mainstream• OpenLearn is about to join the university’s central VLE platform
• As OpenLearn and OU courses share a single production schema, all
features available to our accredited courses will also be available to
OpenLearn
• Pizza effect: many of these features were in fact first implemented by
OpenLearn
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Single input, multiple outputs
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Content creation
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Automated production
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What happens next?• Metadata is extracted and added as DAISY and Dublin Core information
• Images are converted and resized
• Audio and video is copied across and embedded in the document
• All textual content is recorded using a synthetic voice
• DAISY Pipeline turns the source document into a full DAISY talking book
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DAISY talking books
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DAISY talking books: strengths• Unparalleled accessibility
• Synchronised speech and full text
• Structure matches the original document exactly
• Excellent hardware support
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DAISY talking books: challengesFor traditional print items• Considerable file sizes (in some cases 500MB+)• No standard file extension (distributed as folder wrapped in zip archive)
• Streaming not yet available
• Limited cross-platform support
For media-rich content• No support for audio, video, Ajax, Flash• The guiding metaphor is the printed book
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Choices• In order to do justice to the mix of photos, audio, video, interactivity and
textual content in OpenLearn, it is necessary to offer additional outputs
• Once an automated process is in place, adding further outputs is
inexpensive and quick
• At the time of writing, these are:
– Audio books
– ePub (e-ink)
– ePub (HTML5)
– Mobipocket
– Microsoft Word
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Audio books• Commuter car journey scenario
• Support for multi-lingual documents
• Interpreting tables
• MP3 files tagged with album, artist and track information
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ePub ebook (e-ink)• Broad industry backing
– Sony Reader
– Barnes & Noble Nook
– Many other reader e-ink devices are set to go on sale this year
– Most can display ePub files
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ePub ebook (HTML5)• The next generation of ePub enabled devices is likely to offer colour touch
screens, highly optimised JavaScript engines and key features of HTML5,
notably:
– Embedded audio
– Embedded video
– Canvas
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Mobipocket ebook• This is essentially a variation on the ePub theme, only the supported
device is Amazon’s Kindle
• Text-to-speech support is excellent
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Microsoft Word• This is the preferred accessible format for many students with disabilities
• Close integration with Jaws and Window-Eyes screen-reader software
• Editing and sharing Word documents is easier for most students than just
about any other format
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Existing OpenLearn outputs• Focus on open standards
• Reuse in VLE contexts
• Structured materials for large scale production
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General availability of DAISY and other formats• The university-wide roll-out begins in June
• Alternative outputs for OpenLearn are set to go live in September
• All tools used are open source software