At the 2014 Kaltura Connect conference in June, CJ Johnson, co-founder and VP of Product at 3Play Media, presented with Matt Bochniak, Multimedia Supervisor at Johns Hopkins University, about leveraging closed captions and transcripts in higher education. Johns Hopkins University uses 3Play Media as their captioning and transcription provider.

1. Matt Bochniak
Johns Hopkins University
Engineering for Professionals

2. JHU-Engineering for Professionals (EP)
• Part-Time graduate engineering program
• Eleven fully online Master’s degrees
• Worldwide program
• 1,965 students enrolled in online courses last year

3. EP’s Kaltura
• Over 5,600 videos currently in our catalog
• Average run time for each video is 15 minutes
• Most videos are audio-over-narrated presentation
• Example video

4. Current Closed-Captioning
• 3PlayMedia does all of EP’s captioning
• EP closed captions all videos in an online
course when a student enrolled in that course
makes a formal request for accommodations
or by faculty request.

5. Challenges
• In the future, all schools may be required to
add captions to all online video content
• Estimated cost for EP to complete this in FY 15
is approximately $325,000

6. Strategy
• Captioning responsibilities delegated across
instructional technology staff
– Multimedia staff support instructional designers,
who then assist faculty with captioning
– All new online courses, as well as online courses
going through redesign should be captioned