Ampache - Ampache and Education

Ampache and Education

Ampache's features make it a powerful instructional and assistive technology for students with language-based learning differences. At Chelsea School, a group of advanced technology students recognized Ampache's potential for providing important accommodations and modifications that serve their learning styles; they built and configured an Ampache server that was put to work to enhance teaching and learning in the classroom.

By recording audio editions of instructional-level texts and assignments and adding them to an Ampache catalog, the instructor empowers students to individually and independently listen to a streaming text while following along with the print edition; used in this way, Ampache gives students access to instructional-level texts and curriculum material that may otherwise be inaccessible to them. Ampache thus serves as a compromise between three common accommodations: text-to-speech software, a human reader, and audiobooks.

Ampache's video-streaming features have also been used to enhance teaching and learning at Chelsea School. Rather than watching instructional material as a large group, students streamed the assigned instructional videos independently from their individual workstations; independent viewing reduces distractions while at the same time empowering students to progress at their pace, pause to take notes without explicit prompting, and to repeat segments as necessary to increase comprehension.