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From: Emma Duke-Williams
Date: Apr 4, 2008 11:20AM

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:15 PM, John E. Brandt < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

>
> On a practical note...being that you cannot predict who your students will
> be, you cannot presume you will not need course content in an alternate
> format. If a student with a disability arrives in your class as a transfer
> student, two days after the semester starts, and you do not have content
> that the student can access, you might be considered in violation of this
> obligation to provide the same access to all students. And it might be
> difficult to run out and start captioning video at that point.
>

A fair point that you can't predict who's going to be in the class in
the first couple of days, but once the transfer period is over (in our
university, students can transfer units, subject to space etc.) then
you do know the group. If the lecturer finds a useful video the night
before the lecture, surely common sense would dictate that it's useful
to use it, even if you don't have time to transcribe it.
Equally, if it's a second or third year unit, (which has a
pre-requisite from earlier years), then again, you can be fairly sure
about who the students are. Given that transcribing is going to take
longer than the video is, surely from a pragmatic point of view, the
lecturer's time is better spent doing something else ... if they know
that no-one needs it. Yes, ideally we'd have it; but time is limited;
and if having the video makes things clearer for the group of students
you know that you have (e.g. because a lot of them are dyslexic, so
prefer the visual representation of whatever it is you're teaching),
surely that's more useful than not having it at all, because you don't
have the time to create the transcript.

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Emma Duke-Williams:
School of Computing/ Faculty eLearning Co-ordinator.
Blog: http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~duke-wie/blog/