Empowering Deaf Learners: The Promise of Sign Language MOOCs

This paper proposes a pedagogical model combining MOOCs with automatic sign language translation technology to provide deaf students access to educational content in their native sign language, demonstrating this through a digital literacy course for schoolteachers.

In the realm of education, deaf students face significant communication barriers that limit their integration and success within intellectual communities. Due to the use of distinct mother languages, a communication gap arises between deaf and non-deaf communities. This poses serious difficulties for deaf students, who communicate primarily in sign language and are unable to fluently read materials written in spoken language. As most didactic materials in higher education are available exclusive

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