Important New Enhancements to Inclusive Learning Using Recorded Lectures

Abstract

Abstract. This paper explains three new important enhancements to Synote, the freely available, award winning, open source, web based application that makes web hosted recordings easier to access, search, manage, and exploit for learners, teachers and other users. The facility to convert and import narrated PowerPoint PPTX files means that teachers can capture and caption their lectures without requiring institution-wide expensive lecture capture or captioning systems. Crowdsourcing correction of speech recognition errors allows for sustainable captioning of any originally uncaptioned lecture while the development of an integrated mobile speech recognition application enables synchronized live verbal contributions from the class to also be captured through captions.

Synote Second Screening: Using Mobile Devices for Video Annotation and Control

“…The award winning web application Synote helps address these issues as captioned video can be tagged and users can add comments as accessible synchronised annotations [2]. Text, audio, images, annotation and video can enhance the effectiveness of conveying information through eLearning [3] and a recorded lecture allows a student to decide when and where they wish to study.…”