[Athen] Distance Education and Assistive Technology

[Jeffrey Dell]

We won't provide software for students to use at home.  I will set up
our students with any free or low cost application I can find but we
don't extend our licenses to home use.  We look at that as being the
students responsibility.  We try to make our online courses accessible
so what ever programs they do use will work with it.  That is what we
are required to do.  I'd like to be able to provide the software for
students but it's not what my budget tells me I can do.
If the student is using Vista or 7 there are very good speech
recognition programs that come built into windows.  If they are using
XP they can get Dragon standard for around $50 because speech
recognition isn't very good on XP's version.  Someone else could speak
for Mac because I'm not familiar with speech recognition programs for
it.
Jeff
Cleveland State

On 1/8/10, Brown, Carol <cbrown at ad.nmsu.edu> wrote:

> A student in another state is taking a distance education course from our

> University and has requested speech-to-text software.  How are

> colleges/universities handling this type or request?

> Any policies/procedures that you wish to share would be greatly appreciated.

>

> Thanks.

>

> Carol Brown

> Assistive Technology Specialist

> Student Accessibility Services

> Rm. 244, Corbett Center

> MSC 4149

> New Mexico State University

> P.O. Box 30001

> Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003-8001

>

> (575) 646-6840  Office

> (575) 646-5222  Fax

> (575) 646-1918  TTY

>

>