[Athen] Blackboard Ally and captioning

[Jiatyan Chen]

On 2017 May 22, at 08:32, Joseph Sherman <Joseph.Sherman at cuny.edu> wrote:

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> how are folks justifying large outlays of cash for things like universal captioning and Blackboard Ally?


Joseph,

Depending on your institution's culture, you might make a case for Blackboard Ally
1. continuous improvement - provides statistics to show changes and help adjust effort/policy,
2. educating authors - has basic tutorials and scoring to teach and motivate authors.
3. ease of mind - a decent on-demand converter to fill some gaps we can't cover manually.
4. the price is based on FTE, which is more controllable than rampant content production.

I can't think of good reasons to justify universal captioning. :p  Might want to ring-fence "universal" with some controllable criteria.

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Jiatyan Chen