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#COVID-19: How Instructors are Using the YuJa Enterprise Video Platform for Remote Learning
Fortunately, modern solutions such as the YuJa Enterprise Video Platform provide instructors the ability to simultaneously live stream and record class lectures, host office hours, and hold meetings at the touch of a button. Requiring only a webcam and microphone, recording video is easier than ever and instructors can ensure that class is still in session as we continue to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tackling Coronavirus: How Instructors are Using the YuJa Enterprise Video Platform for Remote Learning
1. Lecture Capture
The YuJa Enterprise Video Platform offers a comprehensive lecture capture portfolio that can be used for small faculty-specific deployments or multi-campus university system-wide deployments. Our easy-to-use lecture capture system supports flipped class micro lessons and >multi-stream presentation capture. Instructors can also present naturally across all their presentation material including video, audio, slides, document cameras, smartboards, and more. Integration with your existing Learning Management System (LMS) even allows content creators to seamlessly upload their recorded content directly within their respective LMSs.
2. Video Conferencing
With YuJa Video Conferencing, instructors can host small groups, large lectures and remote office hours. The real-time whiteboard feature enables participants to draw and annotate within a live Video Conference session ideal for one-on-one office hours, small group collaborations, and large-scale video conferencing. If you are designing a 3D model, sharing slides, or editing a document, students can even see what is being presented on your desktop and follow your on-screen actions through their own screens.
3. Active Learning
The YuJa Enterprise Video Platform offers various solutions to promote active learning within a remote learning environment. Liven up your video quizzes by combining video quizzes with instructive in-video prompts and time-based supplementation information. Enable your students to create recordings of presentations, projects and other work with high-quality, flexible and versatile tools. Students can also access recording tools, share recordings with their class, or securely submit recordings to an instructor without the need for a third-party application. These various features offer learners multiple ways to enhance their learning experience and stay engaged while viewing online content.
How To Caption Your Videos At Scale
As videos become more commonplace within schools and business, the challenge to ensure accessibility is posed. For many, the ability to simply press play and access content can hinder their learning due to various learning disabilities, audio playback issues, or hearing impairments. With the amount of content being created, the demand for consistent and accurate captioning remains ever-present.
Learn How to Caption Your Videos at Scale
The Challenge
While captioning remains a fundamentally straightforward process, ensuring consistent captioning whilst complying to various regulations, poses the biggest challenge. The requirement for accessibility among new and older video content is vital towards ensuring compliance.
Typically, captioning regulations are set by Section 508, 504, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. While FCC standards for internet video captioning are mandatory for television-aired content and not applicable on the internet, said standards still provide ideal benchmarks for educational institutions seeking to implement the highest in quality captioning.
- Accuracy: Captions must accurately relay the speaker’s precise words. This requires spelling, punctuation, and grammar to uphold a 99% accuracy rate.
- Time Synchronization: Captions must accurately align with the video content.
- Program Completeness: Captions must continue throughout the video’s entire duration.
- Placement: Captions must be legible and placed to enable viewing of video content.
In attempts to comply, the use of third-party video captioning tools and individuals by many institutions were incorporated to apply manually added captions. Nonetheless, given the influx of video content being regularly published, the result became a cumbersome and costly process. On top of that, free captioning tools mandate videos to be publicly hosted – a process that will raise privacy concerns among many instructors.
The Captioning Solution
With the YuJa Enterprise Video Platform, users are given multiple options to generate video captions easily – whether you are captioning a single video or an entire video library. Auto-captioning capabilities is automatically available for newly created YuJa video content in multiple languages. Captions can also be accessed, downloaded, uploaded, and edited via the YuJa Video Editor.
ADA Compliance requires a 99% accuracy rate; however, the current auto-captioning capabilities across the industry have been unable to achieve that requirement. With the YuJa Enterprise Video Platform, the ability to leverage other technologies allows us to closely reach that threshold. To do this, the YuJa Platform incorporates our Captioning Confidence Scores.
With Captioning Confidence Scores, words that the captioning engine AI may not be “sure of” are highlighted, and users can hover over any word to see the specific Confidence Score attained when transcribing said word. The implementation of a custom dictionary also allows our AI to learn technical terms unique to specific course. By teaching the YuJa Platform specific keywords and phrases, the YuJa Platform will learn these distinctions and accurately relay them in the future. Further, any additional revisions to captions can be edited to ensure maximum accuracy.
Accurate captioning ensures accessible content for any viewer; and ultimately, the combination of the YuJa Platform’s auto-captioning and confidence scores allow for deep search functionality and maximized accuracy.
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Fall 2018 Scholarship Winner – Darian Williams
Tell us about yourself:
I’m from Utah, USA, and earned a degree in Anthropology from Southern Utah University. I’m currently a graduate student of Global Environmental Studies at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. I’m focusing my MA thesis on sustainability marketing, and currently have content marketing internships with American startup Alda Lifestyle and international organization Plastic-Free Tuesday. I also work part-time as an English teacher.
What has been your best experience in school?
During my second semester, I was able to go on a research trip to a small town called Karuizawa. While I didn’t directly learn anything about marketing, I gained hands-on experience with forest management. I also learned many traditional Japanese conservation methods that are unfortunately beginning to die out. On top of that, I was able to bond with my classmates and professors over good Japanese sake!
What influenced your choice in major?
During my undergraduate, I learned of primate endangerment in a biological anthropology course and decided to focus my senior thesis on the various dimensions of this problem. My findings from this thesis made me understand that conserving natural resources can’t be done from a one-dimensional perspective. As I approached grad school, I knew that I wanted to make sustainable living more doable for a greater number of people. Because of this, I decided to focus my MA thesis on how to increase sustainable consumption with marketing methods.
How do you envision yourself in 5 years?
I’d like to continue globe-hopping while working remotely as a sustainability marketer. Since I originally come from the countryside, which is quite homogeneous, I’m happy to experience different cultures. I also see this as an important educational and career skill in an increasingly globalized world. I’d like to be working on a diverse range of environmental problems and hope to see improvements in climate change, waste management, and biodiversity loss.
What do you hope to learn from your school experience?
I would like to gain a deeper understanding of human behavior because I see this as paramount to creating a sustainable future. This is something that was part of my undergraduate education, so it’s an extension of what I already know. Something that I missed during my undergrad, though, was any type of marketing or business knowledge. Although human behavior is important for sustainability, so are economic processes. I intend on melding these two elements in my final thesis as well as my career. What extracurricular activities do you enjoy? Most of the time that I don’t spend on my thesis is put towards two internships. One focuses on the general growth of a sustainable startup, in which I do everything from blogging to email marketing to Twitter growth. The other is more specific and focused because it’s for an organization that aims to decrease plastic waste with doable, everyday changes. I am currently working on revamping the organization’s Pinterest account in order to grow awareness about its mission.