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 John Graves |
The success of Google (single line search box), Wikipedia (collaborative content creation), Kahn Academy (multimedia lessons and interactive exercises) and mobile smart phones (400,000 new accounts per day in early 2011) points to a huge opportunity for a new kind of open education resource for mobile learning which leverages these approaches in combination. The current generation of text-to-speech software produces remarkable results that sound almost human. The Wiki-to-Speech project uses this capability to deliver a Khan Academy-like presentation on a mobile device, using only one quarter the bandwidth of an equivalent video. The audio portion of the presentation is sent as text and rendered as speech on the phone or tablet. Because the presentation consists of text and images, not video, it can be collaboratively improved, just like Wikipedia. And because it uses text, not video, the presentation content can be searched using Google. Please contact me at john.graves [at] aut.ac.nz or visit http:/ Watch this YouTube video for a demonstration of how you can use OpenOffice or PowerPoint to create this new kind of OER: http:/
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John Graves |
Wiki-to-Speech content also plays through a standard web browser. For example, watch the U3A.txt presentation* at http:/ * U3A is University of the Third Age. See http:/ |
