why should you consider captioning e-learning videos ?
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Top 5 reasons why you should caption e-learning videos
Increase your Reach
Reaching Out to the Search Engine
Use video transcripts for promotional
purposes
Lending an Ear
Visual Reinforcement
To make e-learning materials more accessible to the students
“Of every 1,000 students 3 suffer from hearing loss” states a research. So, ADA
(Americans with Disabilities Act) has enforced laws to make every learning material
accessible to all Americans, equally.
By adding captioning e-learning videos:
Deaf (or hard of hearing) students should now be able to
comprehend your contents, which may otherwise be
impossible for them.
And, you satisfy the Disability Rights Section
of ADA.
Benefits for You!
One; directly captioning your educational videos can help grow their reach, but, the videos’
transcripts can be used for more than that.
Transcripts make content creation way easier. You can easily convert the text transcript for
other promotional purposes.
Your company can have your entire video transcribed,
and then published as e-books or even text books.
From student’s perspective
In a another survey conducted recently, the participants (students)were asked
“how often would you use closed captions?”, it was reported that about 26%
stated “always”, 37% stated “often” and only others stated “rarely” or “never”.
And, about 89% of them stated they would download the transcripts whenever
available.
Helps them retain information for much longer
It assists them when the audio quality is poor
Also, captioning e-learning videos will guide them
through difficult vocabulary, which should improve
their proficiency in the subject.
Reaching Out to the Search Engine
Google reported 2 trillion searches in 2016, which averages at about 100 billion searches a
month. And, through the course of this year 74% of these searches will be for videos.
SEO plays a significant role if you have to bring your online content to the fore-front, and
videos aren’t any different.
The transcripts of e-learning videos allow Google to crawl
through your video content and so index them.
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Helps professors reach more students
By closed captioning e-learning courses, professors & trainers become equipped to
reach more students; even those learners who may not respond well otherwise.
Conclusion
As the e-learning space gets crowded by the day,
(even universities have stepped into providing
e-learning options of their own).
Provide captions to your videos and stand out from the
crowd, to establish a strong online presence (SEO optimized),
and become more student friendly.
Provide captions to your videos and stand out from the
crowd, to establish a strong online presence (SEO optimized),
and become more student friendly.
Why don’t you give it a try? –
For free of-course!
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