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Loneliness in online students with disabilities: qualitative investigation for experience, understanding and solutions

Online learning has given access to education for diverse populations including students with disabilities. In our university, the ratio of students with disabilities is substantially higher in the online programmes than face-to-face. Online learning provides high accessibility though it can result...

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Autores principales: Kotera, Yasuhiro, Chircop, James, Hutchinson, Lucy, Rhodes, Christine, Green, Pauline, Jones, Robert-Maxwell, Kaluzeviciute, Greta, Garip, Gulcan
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8660147/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34909461
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41239-021-00301-x
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author Kotera, Yasuhiro
Chircop, James
Hutchinson, Lucy
Rhodes, Christine
Green, Pauline
Jones, Robert-Maxwell
Kaluzeviciute, Greta
Garip, Gulcan
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description Online learning has given access to education for diverse populations including students with disabilities. In our university, the ratio of students with disabilities is substantially higher in the online programmes than face-to-face. Online learning provides high accessibility though it can result in a lonely experience. Accordingly, this study aimed to appraise the first-hand experience and understanding of loneliness in online students with disabilities (OSWD), and to discuss possible solutions. Thematic analysis on semi-structured interviews attended by nine OSWD identified: ‘Self-paced study can reduce stigma but cause loneliness (Theme 1)’, ‘Loneliness and social difficulties relate to misunderstanding of disability (Theme 2)’, and ‘Activities, events and staff for informal socialisation are needed (Theme 3)’. As the demand for online learning is further expanded due to the current global pandemic, our findings will be helpful for online learning institutions worldwide to establish effective strategies to reduce loneliness in OSWD. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s41239-021-00301-x.
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spelling pubmed-86601472021-12-10 Loneliness in online students with disabilities: qualitative investigation for experience, understanding and solutions Kotera, Yasuhiro Chircop, James Hutchinson, Lucy Rhodes, Christine Green, Pauline Jones, Robert-Maxwell Kaluzeviciute, Greta Garip, Gulcan Int J Educ Technol High Educ Research Article Online learning has given access to education for diverse populations including students with disabilities. In our university, the ratio of students with disabilities is substantially higher in the online programmes than face-to-face. Online learning provides high accessibility though it can result in a lonely experience. Accordingly, this study aimed to appraise the first-hand experience and understanding of loneliness in online students with disabilities (OSWD), and to discuss possible solutions. Thematic analysis on semi-structured interviews attended by nine OSWD identified: ‘Self-paced study can reduce stigma but cause loneliness (Theme 1)’, ‘Loneliness and social difficulties relate to misunderstanding of disability (Theme 2)’, and ‘Activities, events and staff for informal socialisation are needed (Theme 3)’. As the demand for online learning is further expanded due to the current global pandemic, our findings will be helpful for online learning institutions worldwide to establish effective strategies to reduce loneliness in OSWD. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s41239-021-00301-x. Springer International Publishing 2021-12-10 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8660147/ /pubmed/34909461 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41239-021-00301-x Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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