Kathleen Ludewig Omollo International Program Manager, Office of Enabling Technologies

University of Michigan Medical School AVU International Conference, November 22, 2013

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Policy Social Technical

Crowd-sourcing video translations for a global network for health education

Context: Global

Network

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If  you  want  to  reach  an  interna0onal  audience  –  or  perhaps  even  na0onal  –    then  you  likely  need  to  consider  more  than  one  language.    

…But  how?  

Context  

Context:  African  Health  Open  Educa0onal  Resources  (OER)  Network  

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Advance  health  educa0on  in  Africa  by:    

•   Crea0ng  and  promo0ng  free,  openly  licensed  teaching  materials  created  by  Africans  to  share  knowledge    

•   Iden0fying  and  addressing  curriculum  gaps    

•   Bridging  health  educa0on  communi0es  

(hKp://www.oerafrica.org/healthoer)      

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Context:  African  Health  OER  Network  Partners  in  2008  

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Challenge:  In  2012,  most  of  the  learning  resources  were  only  in  English.  

Goal:  Make  our  materials  available  to  a  wider  audience  of  learners  around  the  world.  Begin  in  January  2013.  

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Context:  African  Health  Open  Educa0onal  Resources  (OER)  

Considera0ons:  Policy  

•   Privacy  /  informed  consent  for  people  included  in  learning  resource  •   Copyright:  

•   Transla(ons  are  deriva(ve  works  and  require  permission/license.  

•   Resources  (financial  or  human)    •   Quality  assurance  

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Considera0ons:  Social  

•  Select  learning  resource(s)  with  mul0-­‐cultural  appeal    

•  Divide  learning  resource(s)  into  segments  

•  Provide  source  language  •  Iden0fy,  recruit  mul0lingual  talent  

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Social:  Partners  

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Screenshot  of  hKps://open.umich.edu/blog/2013/01/28/help-­‐us-­‐translate-­‐health-­‐oer-­‐videos/,  CC  BY  Open.Michigan  

Social:  Partners  

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Screenshot  of  hKp://www.lsa.umich.edu/lrc/resources/languagebank,  Fair  Use,  ©Regents  of  the  University  of  Michigan  

Social:  Partners  

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Social:  Mo0va0ng  and  Recognizing  Volunteers  

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Screenshot  of  hKps://open.umich.edu/blog/2013/01/28/help-­‐us-­‐translate-­‐health-­‐oer-­‐videos/,  CC  BY  Open.Michigan  

Social:  Recognizing  Volunteers  

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Screenshot  of  hKps://open.umich.edu/blog/2013/08/22/interview-­‐with-­‐eve-­‐nabulya-­‐luganda-­‐transla0ons-­‐for-­‐my-­‐community/,  CC  BY  Eve  Nabulya  

Social:  No0fy  authors,  others    of  transla0ons  

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Screenshot  of  hKp://open.umich.edu/educa0on/med/oernetwork/public-­‐health/ep/disaster-­‐response/2012/,  CC  BY  East  Africa  HEALTH  Alliance  

Social:  No0fy  authors,  others    of  transla0ons  

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Screenshot  of    hKp://open.umich.edu/educa0on/med/oernetwork/med/microbiology/clinical-­‐microbio-­‐lab/2009/materials,  CC  BY  NC  Cary  Engelberg,  Yaw  Adu-­‐Sarkodie,  Charles  Agyei  Osei    

Cap0oning  and  Transla0on:    Translator  View  in  Amara.org  

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Technical:  Sign-­‐up  Form  via  GoogleForms  

•  Name  •  Email  •  Preferred  aKribu0on  style  (e.g.  name,  

0tle  or  cer0fica0on,  ins0tu0on)  •  Language(s)  •  Proficiency  •  Video(s)  selected  •  Comments  

Cap0oning  and  Transla0on:    Translator  View  in  Amara.org  

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Technical:  Translator  View    in  YouTube.com  

Screenshot  from  hKp://translate.google.com/toolkit/workbench?..,  Fair  Use  

Cap0oning  and  Transla0on:    Translator  View  in  Amara.org  

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Technical:  Translator  View  in  Amara.org  

Screenshot  from  hKp://www.amara.org/en/videos/mgnz9QiwlRQS/info/staining-­‐of-­‐a-­‐gram-­‐posi0ve-­‐bacterium/,  Fair  Use  

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Technical:  Final  Presenta0on    on  YouTube.com  

Screenshot  from  hKp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ3IR_DhynU,    CC  BY  

LANGUAGE # VIDEOS

ENGLISH  (SOURCE)  (MAINLY  STAFF)   182  

SPANISH  (PRIORITY)   53  

PORTUGUESE  (PRIORITY)   28  

JAPANESE   22  

FRENCH  (PRIORITY)   14  

RUSSIAN   7  

ROMANIAN   5  20

Results  to  Date  

LANGUAGE # VIDEOS

GANDA   3  

SWAHILI  (PRIORITY)   2  

ARABIC   2  

DANISH   1  

CHINESE  (SIMPLIFIED)   1  

CHINESE  (TRADITIONAL)   1  

TOTAL  CAPTIONS  BESIDES  ENGLISH   139  

#  LANGUAGES  PER  VIDEO  OTHER  THAN  ENGLISH  

#  VIDEOS    

6   3  

5   2  

4   5  

3   6  

2   36  

1   1  

TOTAL  VIDEOS    *31  VIDEOS  IN  ORIGINAL  CAMPAIGN   53  

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Results  to  Date  

#  VOLUNTEERS  PER  COMPLETED  TRANSLATION  

#  CAPTIONS  

2  (TRANSLATOR  AND  REVIEWER)  

43  

1   96  

TOTAL   139  

#  CAPTIONS  CONTRIBUTED  

#  VOLUN-­‐TEERS  

CONTRIBUTED  >=1  cap0on  

35  

1   12  

MAX  =  31   1  

MEDIAN   2  

MEAN   4.63  

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Results  to  Date  

AFFILIATION  OF  VOLUNTEERS  

#  VOLUN-­‐TEERS  

UNIVERSITY  OF  MICHIGAN  ACTIVE  MEMBER  OR  ALUMNI  

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EXTERNAL  OR  UNKNOWN  

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Slide  CC  BY  Caitlin  Barta  and  Vibha  Mehta,  SI  545,  University  of  Michigan,  April  2013  

Slide  CC  BY  Caitlin  Barta  and  Vibha  Mehta,  SI  545,  University  of  Michigan,  April  2013  

Slide  CC  BY  Caitlin  Barta  and  Vibha  Mehta,  SI  545,  University  of  Michigan,  April  2013  

Conclusions  from  Michigan  experience  

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Crowd-­‐sourcing  is  a  feasible  op0on  to  translate  educa0onal  content,  including  technical  topics  such  as  microbiology,  public  health,  and  medicine.  

Conclusions  from  Michigan  experience  

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Essen0al  steps  of  the  process:  1.  Open  licensing  simplifies  condi0ons  for  

deriva0ve  works  and  of  aKribu0ons.  2.  Partner  with  language  or  mul0cultural  

organiza0ons.  3.  Simplify  the  sign-­‐up.  4.  Use  reminders,  updates,  publicity,  and  

personal  thank  you  notes  as  mo0va0on.  

Contact  Info  

Email  •   open.michigan@umich.edu  

Links  •   Today’s  Slides:  hKp://openmi.ch/transla0on-­‐avu13    

•   Transla0on  Overview  and  Sign-­‐up:  hKp://openmi.ch/transla0on-­‐overview    

•   Sign-­‐up  for  African  Health  OER  Network  NewsleKer:    hKp://openmi.ch/healthoernetwork-­‐newsleKer    

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Synthesis  of  lessons  from  panelists  about  crowd-­‐sourcing  transla0ons  

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Recap:  Lessons  Across  Panelists  

1.  Provide  cap0ons  in  source  language    2.  If  instruc0onal,  review  for  quality  by  

subject  maKer  experts  3.  Design  workflows  to  accommodate  

volunteers  with  varying  levels  of  0me  commitment,  windows  of  available,  levels  of  subject  knowledge  and  language  fluency.   30

4.  Recruit  volunteers  with  the  necessary  language  and  subject  maKer  exper0se  using  formal  and  informal  social  networks  

5.  Develop  a  lexicon  of  core  technical  terms  for  the  given  subject    

6.  Use  souware  to  manage  parallel  transla0ons  and  versioning   31

Recap:  Lessons  Across  Panelists  

7.  Arrange  proofreading    8.  Review  formavng  of  transla0ons  

for  consistency  of  style  9.  Recognize  or  reward  the  

contribu0ons  of  volunteers    10. Promote  the  results  (more  

volunteers,  more  learners)  32

Recap:  Lessons  Across  Panelists  

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