Identification of student-teachers groups⇔ needs in physical education and sport for designing an open distance learning on the model of small private online courses

Abstract

—Currently, there are witnessing several distance-learning offerings: FOAD (Open Distance Learning) MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course) and SPOCS (Small Private Online Courses) in various intervention sectors including education and training. However, little research has dealt with analyzing the needs of participants before implementing SPOCs in higher education. This study aims to identify needs in order to design and guide a technopedagogical device in SPOCs’ form for teacher training.The results showed that more than 70% of interviewees declared that SPOC reduces participants’ travel time, 87% aimed at developing professional competence in planning learning, 77% wanted students’ evaluation and more than 60% wanted to know the disciplinary knowledge relating to physical and sporting activities (PSA) and their Learning activities’ management.In addition, 64.3% of participants preferred, as device’s form and design, the four modalities at the same time: text structured in title, video capsules, images and sound recording. In terms of educational tutoring,more than 75% of participants declared their need to understand certain concepts in the course. These results will guide us to focus attention on three basic professional skills: planning, management and evaluation of learning as a priority training module in the envisaged SPOC with technical and pedagogical support both audiovisual and textual.