I was drawn to this item (10 page PDF) because I would have expected the opposite, based on what I have heard from people's experiences with online conferencing. The authors argue that "faced with higher fatigue rates and lower performances, the DHH population might be at disadvantage in the several dimensions of academic challenges, leading to further inequalities and constraints that affect well-being and participation opportunities." But the study is, in my view, significantly flawed. The e-learning design employed was, to my view, idiosyncratic, throwing as many different visual elements as possible into a small screen (illustrated). But more significantly, while we would expect the study to compare online and offline learning for DHH students, it in fact studies online learning for DHH and groups of hearing participants. So I would take the results of this study with a very large grain of salt.
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