Should Physical Education be Taught Online Post Covid-19?

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to collect students' opinions at a vocational college in Vietnam and find out students' preferences about online learning which was an alternative method as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. This shift in education from traditional classroom learning to online learning at nearly all levels of education in Vietnam can be considered as the biggest teaching method change to date. As online learning has become more popular in Vietnam due to the COVID-19 pandemic, research is needed to understand student experiences and most importantly reveal views on students' online learning preferences. This study is designed to understand the views, challenges and attitudes about online learning being carried out in a vocational college with simple descriptive statistics research method. Data were collected from 140 students via an online survey system. The survey results show that students face many challenges in terms of networking, interaction between lecturers and students as well as limited direct contact with friends and the percentage of students who do not like online learning is rather high. However, according to the students in this survey, online learning provides many advantages in terms of increasing students' autonomy as well as increasing the number of tech-savvy students.