In July, 2011, Penn State University together with 3Play Media won the Campus Technology Innovators Award for developing an open source system that dramatically simplifies the process of making media files WACG accessible. In this webinar, Penn State discusses and demonstrate how the ELIMedia system works and how it has helped the campus to streamline transcription and captioning. The webinar covers the following topics: - Reasons for developing the e-Learing Institute’s Media Asset Management System (ELIMedia) - How the workflow helps with WACG (Web Accessibility Compliance Guidelines) through transcription and closed captioning - Side benefits, including searchability and user engagement - Demonstration of the system showing how media is uploaded, captioned, and embedded in a course - Ideas for new features and the future direction of the ELIMedia system - How to get the source code for ELIMedia and help with future development Presenters: Keith D. Bailey, Ph.D Assistant Dean of Online Learning and Education Technology Penn State University – College of Arts and Architecture Bryan Ollendyke Instructional Web Technology Specialist Penn State University – College of Arts and Architecture Josh Miller Co-Founder | 3Play Media Tole Khesin VP of Marketing | 3Play Media

1. Penn State Demonstrates Its Award-Winning
Closed Captioning Workflow
October 6, 2011 at 1:00pm ET
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Keith D. Bailey, Ph.D
Assistant Dean of Online Learning and
Education Technology
Penn State University
Bryan Ollendyke
Instructional Web Technology Specialist
Penn State University
Josh Miller
3Play Media
josh@3playmedia.com
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Tole Khesin
3Play Media
tole@3playmedia.com

2. Agenda
Topic
Intro to ELIMedia Server
Keith D. Bailey, Ph.D, Penn State University
Demo of ELIMedia Server
Bryan Ollendyke, Penn State University
Closed captioning workflow
Josh Miller, 3Play Media
Q&A / Discussion
Duration
10 mins
10 mins
10 mins
30 mins

3. Intro to ELIMedia Server
Presentation by
Keith D. Bailey, Ph.D, Penn State University

4. October 6, 2011
An Innovative Strategy for Managing
Your e-Learning Digital Assets
Penn State University
College of Arts and Architecture
Presented by Keith D. Bailey and Bryan Ollendyke

5. Establishing an Infrastructure
Driven by an Instructional
Philosophy

Empower faculty and designers by providing a
stable, reliable, scalable, reusable easy to
use technical infrastructure ultimately
improving the course design and delivery
process

6. Goal 1: Content Separate from
Communication
Course Content
Course Communication

7. Goal 2: Content Separate from Design
Course Interface
Faculty Content
Published Content

8. Goal 3: Media Separate from Content
Public
Purchased
Private

9. Media Management Needs

Eliminate the duplication of media assets as courses are duplicated

Allow for reuse of digital assets across courses and course offerings
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Provide mechanism to embed media in courses with minimal effort

Simplify the workflow with associating copyright information and
transcription files with media assets

Ensure online courses meet copyright and compliance with regard to
the use of media

Facilitate communication needs associated with media production and
implementation

10. The Solution: ELIMedia Server

Asset management system to
store media used in online
courses which:
ELMS: Media
○ Manage images, video, audio,
Flash, etc...
○ Manage copyright for media
assets
○ Associate transcription files
with appropriate media assets

Front-end interface for Flash
Media Server
Asset Media Management
(AMS)

11. Benefits of ELIMedia

Assists with maintaining compliancy
○ Copyright (TEACH Act, Creative Commons)
○ Accessibility (closed captioning)

Removed the need for learning designers and faculty
to manage copyright and transcription within courses

Tagging allows for ease of search and retrieval

Provides project management through a virtual media
request form

12. ELIMedia Workflow
Upload file to ELIMedia
Add copyright information
Upload file to 3Play
Media
Add tags
Retrieve 3Play Media
Transcription file
Assemble into playlist or
galleries
Embed in course
Upload transcription file to
ELiMedia

13. Why 3PlayMedia?

Number of media assets
778 videos, 184 audio files

Number of files transcribed
203 files equalling 41:45:27

100 % reliable return on 10 randomly selected
files

API's to streamline in future

Interactive transcripts with online editing

14. Lets See It!
 https://elimedia.psu.edu/
 https://elms.psu.edu/

15. Overview of 3Play Media
Company Background
• Spinout from MIT
• Innovative process for high
quality transcription
• 200+ customers
Our Focus
• High quality/accuracy
• Cost-effective
• Scalability
• Easy workflow
• Interactive tools

16. Quality and Accuracy
Multi-Step Human Review Process
• More efficient, cost-effective
• >99% accuracy
• All work done in USA
• Consistent transcription standards

17. Easy Workflow – Integration with 3rd Party Platforms
End-to-End Integration with Leading
Lecture Capture Systems
and Video Platforms
3Play Media
Process
* Limelight and thePlatform are in progress

18. Easy Workflow – Build Your Own
3Play Media
Process
Media
•
•
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237 audio/video formats supported
Secure direct upload
Batch FTP
Paste links
API
Transcript/Caption
Outputs
Interactive Transcript

19. Easy Workflow – Build Your Own
3Play Media
Process
Media
Transcript/Caption
Outputs
• Numerous
transcript/caption formats
• Custom XML
• API
Interactive Transcript

20. Easy Workflow – Build Your Own
3Play Media
Process
Media
Transcript/Caption
Outputs
•
•
•
•
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Hosted or self-hosted
API
Customizable
Archive search
No additional cost
Interactive Transcript

21. Transcript Editing
• Text linked with media
• Instant propagation to output files
• No reprocessing necessary
• Find & replace

22. Interactive Transcripts and Video Search
• Text linked with media
• Searchable
• Actionable

23. Questions
Penn State University
3Play Media
Keith D. Bailey, Ph.D
Assistant Dean of Online Learning
and Education Technology
Penn State University – College of Arts
and Architecture
kdb163@psu.edu
Josh Miller
3Play Media
josh@3playmedia.com
Ph: (617) 764-5189 x102
Bryan Ollendyke
Instructional Web Technology Specialist
Penn State University – College of Arts
and Architecture
bto108@psu.edu
Tole Khesin
3Play Media
tole@3playmedia.com
Ph: (415) 298-1206
Resources
Resources
https://elimedia.psu.edu/
http://www.3playmedia.com/resources/
https://elms.psu.edu/