building an ecosystem of floss to educate students with disabilities
DESCRIPTION
Benetech's Literacy program is revolutionizing access to educational materials for print disabled students (e.g. blind, dyslexic, quadraplegic). It is accomplishing this goal by leveraging and contributing to an end-to-end ecosystem of FLOSS technologies to make sure that as the educational content landscape rapidly evolves print-disabled students are as “plugged-in” as their peers.TRANSCRIPT
Building an Ecosystem of FLOSS to Educate Students with Disabilities OSCON 2012
Technology is Transforming Education
How Did I Get Here?
MIT Loans Paid, 2 Startups and 24 Years Later…
Come do social good with me!
When can I start?
SCALE INNOVATION
What Does Benetech Do?
create software for Maximum Social Benefit
solve large, critical problems in Areas of Need
human rights
literacy
environment
Technology Assists Students with Learning and Physical Print Disabilities
Jessica, Ste!on and Shane are three of 200,000+ members who can access Bookshare’s library of 150,000+ books, textbooks and periodicals with reading tools tailored to their special needs
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sUMmzi3nmig
Open Source in Benetech’s Literacy Program
Build Upon Create & Contribute
Poet
Why: Economics
Why: Economics
Why: Innovation Needs Collaboration
Benetech Organizational Truths ● We prefer open to proprietary ● We think we can do more together http://www.benetech.org/about/org_truths.shtml
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DAISY'
IDPF'
LRMI'
Academia'
Crea8ve'Commons'
Why: Harvest Passion of the Community
Why: Expanding our Impact
Bookshare / Chafee Qualified
Other Disabilities (e.g. ADHD, Austism) and English Language Learners
Ecosystem of Open Source Solutions
Authoring • Inkscape'
Adaptation • Poet'• Universal'Sub8tles'
• Tobi'
Discovery • Learning'Registry'
• LRMI'
Delivery • Readium'• Go'Read'(FBReader)'
• Oleria'• Amis'• MathJax'
Need developers to build in or expand accessibility Examples: Moodle, Sygil, BookType (FLOSS Manuals), EdX
Demo of the End to End Solution
Your Chance to Get Involved
● Contribute to a Project – http://SocialCoding4Good.org/volunteer – http://benetech.github.com
● Take into account accessibility in your projects
Q&A
