Objectives & Overview - Closed Captioning

Representation: Using Closed Captioning

 This lesson should take about 10-20 minutes. 


Barrier in Brief

Captioning videos is a best practice for everyone, but is a legal mandate when faculty have a student with a hearing or audio-processing disability in their class. However, many faculty do not have experience or training in captioning; even those who know how to caption find it to be laborious.

 

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 Lesson Overview 

This lesson will address strategies to support students through the use of closed captions on instructional videos. Closed captions are not only useful for students with hearing impairments or audio-processing disorders (who may be comparatively well represented in online courses), but also serve others who, based on circumstances, can't use audio well when trying to work or who learn better by reading/seeing text rather than through auditory channels. This reflects...

 

UDL Checkpoint 1.2: "Provide Alternatives for Audio."

 

Regarding checkpoint 1.2, UDLGuidelines.org says,

"Sound is a particularly effective way to convey the impact of information, which is why sound design is so important in movies and why the human voice is particularly effective for conveying emotion and significance. However, information conveyed solely through sound is not equally accessible to all learners and is especially inaccessible for learners with hearing disabilities, for learners who need more time to process information, or for learners who have memory difficulties.In addition, listening itself is a complex strategic skill that must be learned. To ensure that all learners have access to learning, options should be available for any information, including emphasis, presented aurally."

 

 Lesson Objectives

By the end of this lesson, instructors should be able to...

  • Utilize three (3) methods of captioning videos for education purposes.
  • Identify universal benefits as well as the instructors' legal rights and responsibilities regarding the provision of closed captioning.

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