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Abstract

The spread of COVID-19 has led students to take classes online (rather than face-to-face) worldwide, including in China. For this study, we conducted qualitative focus group discussions to identify the experience of and difficulties faced by online physical education students in higher education taking online classes, including the impact on their physical activity performance, as well as some health problems they face while taking online classes during the quarantine period, such as weight gain, depression, and anxiety. Finally, utilizing Mayer’s learning model as a conceptual framework, we propose a method that addresses how to effectively manage an optimal future learning system for physical education students, both during and after the COVID-19 outbreak situation. During the isolation period of COVID-19, the required equipment for the participants was rarely available at home while attending the online classes, which inevitably reduced the number of physical education units that could be conveyed. This resulted in a transfer of attention from competition to underperformance, weight gain, and adverse psychological conditions. We conclude that it is important to review and systematize the methods of online physical education learning, particularly highlighting the cultural and educational characteristics of different countries, and to investigate the effectiveness of online physical education as a whole.

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Title
Performance, Health, and Psychological Challenges Faced by Students of Physical Education in Online Learning during COVID-19 Epidemic: A Qualitative Study in China
Author
Rizwan Ahmed Laar 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Muhammad Azeem Ashraf 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Jin, Ning 2 ; Ji, Peigang 3 ; Fang, Ping 3 ; Yu, Tianran 4 ; Muhammad Naeem Khan 5   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 College of Physical Education, Hubei Normal University, Huangshi 435002, China; [email protected] 
 Research Institute of Educational Science, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China; [email protected] 
 School of Sports Science and Physical Education, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China; [email protected] (P.J.); [email protected] (P.F.) 
 School of Health and Physical Education, Huaihua University, Huaihua 418099, China; [email protected] 
 School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China; [email protected] 
First page
1030
Publication year
2021
Publication date
2021
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
22279032
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2565248429
Copyright
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.