|
Online Learning News and Research
|
Sunday, March 30, 2003
U. S. Department of Education Distance Learning Project for Deaf Students
A brand new service sponsored by the Department of Education seems ideal for children and adults with a hearing loss. Captioned media delivered to the home or school via streamed media... The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) announced today that it would begin the first-ever Internet video streaming of open-captioned educational videos. No other streamed material of this kind is captioned. Therefore, 28,000,000 Americans with a hearing loss are the potential beneficiaries of this historic media event. "Millions of Americans have been excluded from the Internet's offerings of information, entertainment, and cultural content," said NAD's Bill Stark. Stark, Project Director of the Captioned Media Program (CMP), stated that: "As a U.S. Department of Education-funded program, the CMP has provided free-loan captioned media to deaf and hard of hearing persons, their families, and others who work with persons with a hearing loss for over four decades. This through-the-mail service will now be supplemented by the latest in digital technology."
Comments:
Post a Comment
Online Learning News Blog Archives OTEL - Ray's Home Page - Notebook - UIS Online - U of I Online - UIS Home Fair Use |
Online Learning Update 
