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From: Karen Sorensen
Date: Mar 24, 2012 12:27PM

Hi -
We have a growing number of self-produced videos by faculty in our online
courses, and we are trying to determine a criteria for what Distance
Learning will pay to have captioned and what should be the faculty or
departments responsibility. How do other college and universities decide
what they pay to have captioned?

Currently we require faculty to caption their self-produced media, but this
isn't easy to do when it's a Mediasite lecture capture. Plus many of our
part-time faculty object to the added workload that this requires, (even
with tools like Camtasia 7 that works with Windows 7 voice recognition to
make captioning easier).

Please share with me your approach to captioning requirements and how you
fund it or don't.

Thanks so much!

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Karen M. Sorensen
Accessibility Advocate for Online Courses
www.pcc.edu/access
Portland Community College
971-722-4720