Design and Application of Resource Database for Physical Education Courses in Universities

Abstract

There has been an increasing amount of open educational resources (OERs) on the Internet. However, not so many instructors are familiar with those resources, or can easily use them, which leads to insufficient application of these resources in daily teaching. By analyzing the requirements of physical education courses in universities, this paper categorizes the resources for these courses, and proposes the design objectives, technical architecture and main functions of the resource database for physical education courses. We integrate resources of physical education courses from different online sources into a centralized resource database, and link this database to a learning management system so that college instructors and students can get easily access the resources and take advantage of them in personalized instruction and selflearning. Based on the resources in the database, online and offline integrated blended courses are designed and applied preliminarily in the basketball classes in a university in China. The results indicate that the resource database can effectively help instructors develop blended courses, increase the quality of instruction, and substantially improve learning.