The environment in metropolitan regions along with other factors such as changes in lifestyle and academic pressure can result in students reducing the time they spend pursuing outdoor activities. An increase in sedentary lifestyles and lack of physical activity seriously threaten the health of students, due to reduced physical fitness. To solve this issue, cultivating exercise habits should commence from childhood. Physical education in schools is the best time to cultivate the development of a wholesome body and mind in students. Students need to have high flexibility, strong learning ability, and regular exercise in schools for their future physical and mental development, the establishment of an exercise regimen, and the cultivation of motor skills. For this study, university students in Sichuan Province were chosen as research samples, and 500 copies of a questionnaire were distributed among them. After removing invalid and incomplete questionnaires, 375 were deemed valid, a retrieval rate of 75%. The research results demonstrated significant positive correlations between (1) the Attention, Relevance, Confidence, and Satisfaction (ARCS) motivational instruction in physical education and learning cognition, (2) learning cognition and health-related physical fitness, and (3) ARCS motivational instruction in physical education and health-related physical fitness. The study results suggest that a good exercise regimen boosts students' self-confidence, increases their motivation to participate in physical activities, enhances their health-related physical fitness, and cultivates habits to engage in lifelong physical activity.
Since the outbreak of the pandemic COVID-19, many studies have been conducted to examine how education has responded to the challenges of a completely new situation that has led to the spread of distance education as the only form of instruction. In this study, data were collected and analyzed to understand the difficulties of distance education that higher education students faced during the pandemic. Our goal was to present the results of a socio-psychological study of accessibility, educational resources, applications, and distance learning technologies. A total of 160 students from different Moscow universities participated in the study. A qualitative research method was used for the study. For this purpose, mainly in-depth interviews were conducted to find out the participants’ views on distance education. The data obtained were analyzed by the researchers using qualitative analysis methods. The results showed that all students faced technical difficulties during distance learning, such as poor internet connection, lack of access to online platforms due to the high number of users, lack of necessary equipment, and individual space for online learning. The results also showed low technical readiness for distance education and low quality of online resources, as well as cyber threats during online courses. In addition, the results showed that most students indicated that they would prefer a hybrid form of instruction that combines distance and face-to-face instruction. Implications for further studies are drawn in the conclusion.
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to the temporary interruption of educational activities in the classroom. Digitalization of the classrooms emerged as a need following that process. The objective of this study is to compare the digital citizenship levels of teacher candidates studying in the last year at the departments of classroom teaching and primary school classroom teachers and to reveal their needs. A total of 38 primary school classroom teachers and 27 classroom teacher candidates in the last year of teaching programs in North Cyprus participated in the research. This descriptive study was designed as a case study, which is a qualitative research approach. The data of the study were gathered within the frame of a grounded theory coding process and were analyzed through descriptive analysis, content analysis and the constant comparison technique. The digital citizenship levels of the classroom teachers and teacher candidates were analyzed according to the sub-dimensions of digital citizenship. As a result of the research, it was found that the digital citizenship sub-dimension scores of the classroom teachers were higher than the teacher candidates and that the teacher candidates needed digital citizenship education.