Blended Learning in PE Teaching in China

Abstract

In China, recent trends in the neglect of physical education (PE) by schools, society and families have led to a decline in the quality of physical education teaching. Students are also losing interest and opportunities to participate in physical exercise ^[1]. This is not conducive to the overall development of Chinese students as well as their physical and mental health. To change the situation and improve the physical quality of Chinese students^[2], some researchers pointed out that higher education in China has begun to try to introduce the blended learning model in physical education^[3]. They mentioned that applying blended learning in PE could combine modern technology with traditional physical education (face-to-face instruction) so that it can enlarge teaching methods, greatly attract students' interest and improve students' learning effect in PE. Blended learning plays an essential role in promoting sufficient attention to physical education and is also a vital way to enhance the effect of physical education in higher education. Meanwhile, in the information age, as one learning method derived from the Internet, the teaching conceptions and models of blended learning fit the characteristics of contemporary learners^[4].