Students’ Perceptions towards Challenges in Online Physical Education Course

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic that occurred at the beginning of 2020 has not shown any sign of ending yet, and almost all levels of education from primary school to university and college training in countries around the world have been transformed from traditional teaching to online teaching. And thanks to such a transformation, teaching and learning activities remain uninterrupted even though the world is facing an outbreak of this disease, including Vietnam. Experiencing continuous waves of epidemics in Vietnam, most educational institutions are still conducted in online mode. This study aims to examine the online training activities of physical education courses for students at a college in Vietnam. A total of 144 students currently taking physical education online were sampled in this study. This study also provides an overview of students' perceptions as well as the difficulties students are facing in the process of online learning in physical education courses with a simple descriptive statistics method from the data collected through the questionnaire conducted through the Google Form application from the respondents. On that basis, the author also proposes solutions to help limit students' difficulties and improve efficiency when learning physical education online in particular and other courses in general in case of emergencies in the future.