Factors affecting Japanese students' fatigue in online foreign language presentation courses during the COVID-19 pandemic

This paper discusses the relationship between online class styles and students' degree of fatigue during the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) A survey was conducted on firstyear students of the author's national university in Japan and the responses of 1,156 respondents were analyzed The results indicate that time allocated for the report and/or preparation most likely contributes to the students' degree of fatigue For reading courses, a non-video based class style could be helpful in addressing student fatigue In addition, network comfort is another potential factor that causes fatigue Copyright © 2020 Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education