Penn State Demonstrates Its Award-Winning Closed Captioning Workflow

Josh Miller 3Play Media josh@3playmedia.com

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Tole Khesin 3Play Media tole@3playmedia.com

Bryan Ollendyke Instructional Web Technology Specialist Penn State University

Keith D. Bailey, Ph.D Assistant Dean of Online Learning and Education Technology Penn State University

Agenda

Topic Duration

Intro to ELIMedia Server Keith D. Bailey, Ph.D, Penn State University

10 mins

Demo of ELIMedia Server Bryan Ollendyke, Penn State University

10 mins

Closed captioning workflow Josh Miller, 3Play Media

10 mins

Q&A / Discussion 30 mins

Intro to ELIMedia Server

Presentation by

Keith D. Bailey, Ph.D, Penn State University

An Innovative Strategy for Managing Your e-Learning Digital Assets

October 6, 2011

Penn State University

College of Arts and Architecture

Presented by Keith D. Bailey and Bryan Ollendyke

Establishing an Infrastructure Driven by an Instructional Philosophy

Empower faculty and designers by providing a stable, reliable, scalable, reusable easy to use technical infrastructure ultimately improving the course design and delivery process

Course Content Course Communication

Goal 1: Content Separate from Communication

Published Content

Course Interface Faculty Content

Goal 2: Content Separate from Design

Goal 3: Media Separate from Content Public

Purchased

Private

Media Management Needs

Eliminate the duplication of media assets as courses are duplicated

Allow for reuse of digital assets across courses and course offerings

Provide mechanism to embed media in courses with minimal effort

Simplify the workflow with associating copyright information and transcription files with media assets

Ensure online courses meet copyright and compliance with regard to the use of media

Facilitate communication needs associated with media production and implementation

The Solution: ELIMedia Server

Asset management system to store media used in online courses which:

○ Manage images, video, audio, Flash, etc...

○ Manage copyright for media assets

○ Associate transcription files with appropriate media assets

Front-end interface for Flash Media Server

ELMS: Media

Asset Media Management (AMS)

Benefits of ELIMedia

Assists with maintaining compliancy

○ Copyright (TEACH Act, Creative Commons)

○ Accessibility (closed captioning)

Removed the need for learning designers and faculty to manage copyright and transcription within courses

Tagging allows for ease of search and retrieval

Provides project management through a virtual media request form

ELIMedia Workflow

Upload transcription file to ELiMedia

Embed in course

Upload file to 3Play Media

Add tags

Add copyright information

Assemble into playlist or galleries

Retrieve 3Play Media Transcription file

Upload file to ELIMedia

Why 3PlayMedia?

Number of media assets 778 videos, 184 audio files

Number of files transcribed 203 files equalling 41:45:27

100 % reliable return on 10 randomly selected files

API's to streamline in future

Interactive transcripts with online editing

Lets See It!

https://elimedia.psu.edu/ https://elms.psu.edu/

Overview of 3Play Media

Company Background • Spinout from MIT

• Innovative process for high quality transcription

• 200+ customers

Our Focus • High quality/accuracy

• Cost-effective

• Scalability

• Easy workflow

• Interactive tools

Quality and Accuracy

Multi-Step Human Review Process

• More efficient, cost-effective

• >99% accuracy

• All work done in USA

• Consistent transcription standards

Easy Workflow – Integration with 3rd Party Platforms

* Limelight and thePlatform are in progress

End-to-End Integration with Leading Lecture Capture Systems

and Video Platforms

3Play Media Process

3Play Media Process

Media Transcript/Caption Outputs

Interactive Transcript

• 237 audio/video formats supported • Secure direct upload • Batch FTP • Paste links • API

Easy Workflow – Build Your Own

3Play Media Process

Media Transcript/Caption Outputs

Interactive Transcript

• Numerous transcript/caption formats

• Custom XML • API

Easy Workflow – Build Your Own

3Play Media Process

Media Transcript/Caption Outputs

Interactive Transcript

• Hosted or self-hosted • API • Customizable • Archive search • No additional cost

Easy Workflow – Build Your Own

Transcript Editing

• Text linked with media

• Instant propagation to output files

• No reprocessing necessary

• Find & replace

Interactive Transcripts and Video Search

• Text linked with media

• Searchable

• Actionable

Questions

Keith D. Bailey, Ph.D Assistant Dean of Online Learning and Education Technology Penn State University – College of Arts and Architecture kdb163@psu.edu Bryan Ollendyke Instructional Web Technology Specialist Penn State University – College of Arts and Architecture bto108@psu.edu

Penn State University

https://elimedia.psu.edu/ https://elms.psu.edu/

Resources

Josh Miller 3Play Media josh@3playmedia.com Ph: (617) 764-5189 x102 Tole Khesin 3Play Media tole@3playmedia.com Ph: (415) 298-1206

3Play Media

http://www.3playmedia.com/resources/ Resources