Berkeley should attempt to crowd source the captions. I'm sure many of the more popular classes could be captioned by volunteers. With the right software, the

Berkeley should attempt to crowd source the captions. I'm sure many of the more popular classes could be captioned by volunteers. With the right software, the rest could be cut up into segments, and Amazon's Mechanical Turk could be used to caption it for very little cost. Berkeley could add a button to the viewer to report (or even for viewers to correct) errors that were made by Mechanical Turk users, when they are found by others viewing the material. The costs for the Mechanical Turking could probably be raised very easily at any number of funding sites. The worst part is that Berkeley should have these captioned for their own students anyway. I don't see how making the videos available to Berkeley students only helps in anyway. Berkeley will probably have a policy that they will caption anything requested by a Berkeley student. If I were enrolled in Berkeley I would request that 100% of the videos be captioned, so I had access to any of them I needed to learn something in the middle of the night before a test or for a paper. Maybe they'd have to comply with that, and it would stop this nonsense.