At the end of last month EMMA was in Ljubljana, Slovenia, for this year’s OpenCourseWare Consortium‘s Global Conference 2014 (OCWC2014). Here we report back.
The OCWC global conference is a key event in the open education calendar and each year brings together policy makers, academics and practitioners from around the world to discuss emerging issues and good practices in this area.
In a global context where MOOCs and other video OERs are becoming more mainstream by the day, UPV was very keen to show those driving this phenomenon exactly what we have to offer.
transLectures workshop
To this end, UPV organised a pre-conference workshop dedicated to transLectures technologies. Aimed at a non-scientific audience, the idea was to introduce the main areas of research being developed and spell out exactly what the latest scientific results mean in practice for the end user.
An overview of the transLectures project, its motivations and context in which its results will be applied was given by project coordinator Alfons Juan (UPVLC). Indeed, transLectures technology is currently being adapted and integrated into EMMA opening up the set of languages being transcribed and translated.
This workshop also included a presentation of transLectures‘ two case study sites. As far as UPV is concerned, Carlos Turró spoke of poliMedia‘s experience with transLectures subtitles; the UPV’s Subtitle your videos service and the new post-editing suite tL Player, that is currently being used in EMMA to generate and review subtitles in languages such as English, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese and Catalan.
OCWC2014
Alfons Juan and Carlos Turró were also present at OCWC2014 proper, where they presented transLectures and EMMA as part of the conference’s dissemination track. All three were approached by conference attendees from various backgrounds to find out more about these projects, and how they can make our transcription and translation tools work in their setting. Positive feedback abounded and it was once more confirmed that there is both a need and a market for the kind of tools we are developing at transLectures and EMMA.
