Kathleen Ludewig Omollo, Bob RiddleUMMS Office of Enabling Tech - Open.Michigan Initiative
Audience: SI 657 IT and International DevelopmentOct. 31, 2013
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Overview of Department /
Initiatives
Captioning and
Translation
Flexible Offline
Wireless Networks
Approaches for Translation & Adaptable Technologies to
Overcome Limited Connectivity
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Office of Enabling Technologies (part of Medical School Information Services)
The Office of Enabling Technologies aims to strategically enhance learning experiences at individual, team, institutional, and international levels through novel uses of information services. By leveraging a diverse toolset of technologies, design and research principles, and interdisciplinary partnerships, we empower our community to lead in the rapidly changing healthcare environment.
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Office of Enabling Technologies Featured Initiatives for Talk
• Open.Michigan Initiative • African Health Open Educational Resources
Network
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Open.Michigan Initiative
Open.Michigan enables University of Michigan faculty, students, staff and others to share their educational resources and research with the world. Our two primary goals:•to sustain a thriving culture of sharing knowledge at U-M; and•to provide comprehensive public access to all of U-M’s scholarly output.
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Image CC:BY-SA Colleen Simon (Flickr)
Free
Public
Under some licenses to use, adapt, redistribute
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Open.Michigan:Attributes of Content That Is “Open”
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Context: Health Disparities
6Source: World Health Organization. Working Together for Health: The World Health Report 2006. WHO Publications: Geneva. 2006.
Context for Global Activities: Disparities
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Image CC:BY-NC-SA 350.org (Flickr)
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Context: Health DisparitiesContext for Global Activities: Increased demand for education
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Image CC:BY-NC University of Ghana
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Context: Health DisparitiesContext for Global Activities: Limited space and instructors available
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Image CC:BY-NC-SA Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
When you look in textbooks it’s difficult to find African cases.
[S]ometimes it can be confusing when you see something that you see on white skin so nicely and very easy to pick up, but on the dark skin it has a different manifestation that may be difficult to see.
Professor at Partner Institution in Ghana
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Context: Health DisparitiesContext for Global Activities: Lack of relevant materials
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Image CC:BY Sherrie Thai (Flickr)
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Advance health education in Africa by:
•Creating and promoting free, openly licensed teaching materials created by Africans to share knowledge
•Identifying and addressing curriculum gaps
•Bridging health education communities
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Context: Health DisparitiesAfrican Health OER Network
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Context: Health DisparitiesAfrican Health OER Network:Partners in 2008
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Context: Health DisparitiesAfrican Health OER Network:Current Partners
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Captioning and Translation:Context
Problem: Most of the Open.Michigan and African Health OER Network materials are in English only.
Goal: Make our materials available to a wider audience of learners around the world.
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Captioning and Translation:Considerations
• Consent for and copyright of content • Translations are derivative works and
require permission from the copyright owner. Use existing openly licensed works.
• Professional translators are expensive • Crowdsource, partner, short videos
• Tools to manage volunteers/languages • GoogleForm, Amara.org, YouTube 14
Captioning and Translation: Lessons
1. Provide captions in source language 2. If instructional, review for quality
by subject matter experts3. Design workflows to accommodate
volunteers with varying levels of time commitment, windows of available, levels of subject knowledge and language fluency. 15
Captioning and Translation: Lessons
4. Recruit volunteers with the necessary language and subject matter expertise using formal and informal social networks
5. Develop a lexicon of core technical terms for the given subject
6. Use software to manage parallel translations and versioning 16
Captioning and Translation: Lessons
7. Arrange proofreading 8. Review formatting of translations
for consistency of style9. Recognize or reward the
contributions of volunteers 10. Promote the results (more
volunteers, more learners)17
Captioning and Translation: Partners
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Captioning and Translation: Recognizing Volunteers
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Captioning and Translation: Translator View in Amara.org
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Translation 21
Captioning and Translation: Delivery on YouTube
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LANGUAGE # VIDEOS
SPANISH (PRIORITY) 53
PORTUGUESE (PRIORITY) 28
JAPANESE 22
FRENCH (PRIORITY) 14
RUSSIAN 7
ROMANIAN 5
GANDA 3
SWAHILI (PRIORITY) 2
ARABIC 2
DANISH 1
CHINESE (SIMPLIFIED) 1
CHINESE (TRADITIONAL) 1
TOTAL CAPTIONS 139
AFFILIATION OF VOLUNTEERS
# VOLUNTEERS
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ACTIVE MEMBER OR ALUMNI
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EXTERNAL OR UNKNOWN 35
# LANGUAGES PER VIDEO OTHER THAN ENGLISH
# VIDEOS
6 3
5 2
4 5
3 6
2 36
1 1
TOTAL VIDEOS *31 VIDEOS IN ORIGINAL CAMPAIGN 53
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Captioning and Translation: Results to Date
# VOLUNTEERS PER COMPLETED TRANSLATION
# CAPTIONS
2 (TRANSLATOR AND REVIEWER)
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1 96
TOTAL 139# CAPTIONS CONTRIBUTED
# VOLUNTEERS
CONTRIBUTED 1 OR MORE
35
1 12
MAX = 31 1
MEDIAN 2
MEAN 4.63
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African Health OER Network: Online Distribution Channels
• High technology cost• Limited technology availability (equipment, understaffed dept.) • Unpredictable infrastructure
noii’s, flickr
lydia_shiningbrightly, flickr
Content Distribution:Common Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa
• provide a local wireless network …• provide content via web browser …• provide content via file or app server …• do this with or without the Internet …• do it with or without an electrical outlet …• do all of this for <=$200 …
Offline & Semi-Connected Distribution:Goals
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Raspberry Pi and TPLink (configured for Library Box) are both solutions for providing digital content to laptops, smartphone, and tablets with wireless network capability in areas with unreliable electricity, no or inadequate Internet service, and limited physical or human infrastructure for technology. Connect the USB storage device and the content is available to users in range of the wireless “neighborhood”. Just plug it in to activate. Unplug it when done.
Raspberry Pi Model B26
Offline & Semi-Connected Distribution:Devices
Library Box (http://librarybox.us) similarities with Raspberry Pi:•provide digital content over local wireless network capability in areas •Can connect to rechargable battery pack for backup power source•Connect the USB storage device and the content is available to users in range of the wireless “neighborhood”
Differences: •PirateBox allows local peer to peer file sharing (read and write). •Library Box is read only for users•Raspberry Pi has a full Linux operating system, which allows full applications and more customization of services (e.g. Dropbox, Moodle), and user interface.
Offline & Semi-Connected Distribution:Devices
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Questions?
Email: [email protected]
Translation: http://openmi.ch/translation-overview
Offline and Semi-Offline Networks: http://openmi.ch/rasppi-wiki
Open.Michigan Website: http://open.umich.edu/
African Health OER Network Newsletter: http://openmi.ch/healthoernetwork-newsletter
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