On 6 December 2021, the DSC held a roundtable to explore the issues surrounding the use of automated captioning in teaching and learning in higher education (HE), and its impact on both disabled students and staff. The roundtable received contributions from academic and support staff, disability practitioners and experts working in the area of disability support, sector specialists as well as representatives from lecture capture and captioning software providers.
This report provides an overview of the current challenges raised during the roundtable, and looks forward to how automated captioning could possibly become an informal, embedded component of inclusive learning and teaching provision, while mitigating the potential negative equalities impacts among staff.
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