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MainstreamingDigital Talking Book production By Douglas G BlaneTechnical Co-ordinatorDigital Audio [email protected]/disability
Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
AcronymsCSS Cascading Style SheetsDAISY Digital Accessible Information SystemDDA Disability Discrimination Act DTB Digital Talking BookDTD Document Type DefinitionHTML Hypertext Mark-up LanguageOU The Open UniversityPDA Personal Digital AssistantPDF Portable Document FormatSENDA Special Educational Needs & Disability ActSMIL Synchronized Multimedia Integration LanguageVLE Virtual Learning EnvironmentW3C World Wide Web ConsortiumXML eXtendable 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 CrowtherThe Open University Chancellor 1969
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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
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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
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Types of student disabilitiesFatigue / Pain 3904Mobility / Physical 2926Mental health 2448Manual skills 1914Other 1735Dyslexia 1606
Sight 938Unseen disability 854Hearing 693Personal care 669Speech 351Autistic spectrum 58
Students may have more than one disability
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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” MP3 files for all students• Decrease our costs to distribute DTBs via the web / VLE• Comply with SENDA & DDA legislation
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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
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Structure is the key• The Open University Structured Authoring system
Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
OU Production WorkflowWord
Structure:Schemas
DTDs
Print layout PDF
XML
Web forms
Editors: IllustrationFormatting
forPublishing
Editors: Audio Visual
Other inputs
Learning objects
HTML
VLE
DAISY DTB
Structured MP3
Other outputsCreated by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
OU Production WorkflowWord
Structure:Schemas
DTDs
Print layout PDF
XML
Web forms
Editors: IllustrationFormatting
forPublishing
Editors: Audio Visual
Other inputs
Learning objects
HTML
VLE
DAISY DTB
Structured MP3
Other outputsCreated by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
OU Production WorkflowWord
Structure:Schemas
DTDs
Print layout PDF
XML
Web forms
Editors: IllustrationFormatting
forPublishing
Editors: Audio Visual
Other inputs
Learning objects
HTML
VLE
DAISY DTB
Structured MP3
Other outputsCreated by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
OU Production WorkflowWord
Structure:Schemas
DTDs
Print layout PDF
XML
Web forms
Editors: IllustrationFormatting
forPublishing
Editors: Audio Visual
Other inputs
Learning objects
HTML
VLE
DAISY DTB
Structured MP3
Other outputsCreated by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
OU Production WorkflowWord
Structure:Schemas
DTDs
Print layout PDF
XML
Web forms
Editors: IllustrationFormatting
forPublishing
Editors: Audio Visual
Other inputs
Learning objects
HTML
VLE
DAISY DTB
Structured MP3
Other outputsCreated by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
OU Production WorkflowWord
Structure:Schemas
DTDs
XML
Formattingfor
Publishing
DAISY DTB
Structured MP3
Other outputsCreated by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
OU Production Workflow
OU StructuredAuthoring
OU XML
DAISY DTB
Structured MP3DAISY XML
Word
Other outputsCreated by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
OU Production ProcessesCourse
material
OUhandcraftedprocesses OU DTBs
Humanvoice
OU DTBsoftware
Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
OU Production ProcessesCourse
material
OUhandcraftedprocesses
DAISYDTBs
StructuredMP3
Otheroutputs
OU DTBs
Synthesisedvoice
Mixedsynthesised
& humanvoices
Humanvoice
DAISYPipeline
EasyPublisher
EasyConverter
XML
OU DTBsoftware
Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
OU Production ProcessesCourse
materialDAISYDTBs
StructuredMP3
Otheroutputs
Synthesisedvoice
Mixedsynthesised
& humanvoices
Humanvoice
DAISYPipeline
EasyPublisher
EasyConverter
XML
Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
OU Production ProcessesCourse
materialDAISYDTBs
StructuredMP3
Otheroutputs
Synthesisedvoice
Mixedsynthesised
& humanvoices
Humanvoice
DAISYPipeline
EasyPublisher
EasyConverter
XML
Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
OU Production ProcessesCourse
materialDAISYDTBs
StructuredMP3
Otheroutputs
Synthesisedvoice
Mixedsynthesised
& humanvoices
Humanvoice
DAISYPipeline
EasyPublisher
EasyConverter
XML
Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
OU Production ProcessesCourse
materialDAISYDTBs
StructuredMP3
Otheroutputs
Synthesisedvoice
Mixedsynthesised
& humanvoices
Humanvoice
DAISYPipeline
EasyPublisher
EasyConverter
XML
Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
OU Production ProcessesCourse
materialDAISYDTBs
StructuredMP3
Otheroutputs
Synthesisedvoice
Mixedsynthesised
& humanvoices
Humanvoice
DAISYPipeline
EasyPublisher
EasyConverter
XML
Created by Douglas G Blane © The Open University 2008
Mainstreaming Beyond Disability• DAISY DTB software player
– Cost
– Platform dependent
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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
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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
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Looking into the future• Further Integration of academic learning structures into
the DAISY standard• Integration of OU & BBC co-produced television
programmes into DTBs
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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 perspectiveOver to Susan Baxter…
You can watch this video online through The Open University YouTube area:
www.youtube.com/user/TheOpenUniversity
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Digital Audio ProjectDisabled Student ServicesThe Open UniversityWalton HallMilton KeynesMK7 6AAwww.open.ac.uk/disability
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