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DiTePES: Digital technology in physical education and sports

Research – Department of Teacher Education

DiTePES: Digital technology in physical education and sports

Boys in swimming pool. Teacher with ipad. foto
Foto: Borgar Næss

Background

Widespread use of digital technology in society creates an opportunity to gain knowledge on how young people are affected in relation to areas such as motivation, learning and performance in school and sports. In this emergent field of research, there is a growing amount of empirical evidence demonstrating the benefits of using digital technology to improve the impact of different pedagogical approaches in physical education and performance in sports. Flipped learning, gamification, and exergames have shown to positively influence both student motivation, learning and performance. Nevertheless, there is a major need for research to better understand how digital technology implemented in pedagogical approaches can be beneficial on all educational levels. As digital technology use continues to grow, and youths' lives are more and more infiltrated by those technologies, it is of crucial importance that in physical education we benefit from those technologies. Also, physical education teacher education (PETE) and coach training is in need of mapping out directions for the future regarding the use of digital technology. This sector is experiencing rapid transformation in the wake of COVID19 and the collective turn towards hybrid and online learning in teacher education around the world. What does this mean for embodied programs such PETE and coach educations? With this in mind this international research group initiates and conducts a variety of research projects and actions, including having edited a special issue on digital technology in physical education in Frontiers in Education, and the hosting of an international symposium.

Strategy, vision, values, aims and actions (PDF)


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Leader of research group

  • Ove Østerlie

    Ove Østerlie Associate Professor in Physical Education Excellent Teaching Practitioner

    +47-73412618 +4792058388 ove.osterlie@ntnu.no Department of Teacher Education

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Members of research group

  • Øyvind Bjerke

    Øyvind Bjerke Associate Professor and Excellent Teaching Practitioner.

    +4748010854 oyvind.bjerke@ntnu.no Department of Teacher Education
  • Ingrid Elnan

    Ingrid Elnan PhD Candidate

    +47-73412823 +4795282416 ingrid.elnan@ntnu.no Department of Teacher Education
  • Egil Galaaen Gjølme

    Egil Galaaen Gjølme Professor (dosent) in Sports and Physical Education

    +4795890320 egil.gjolme@ntnu.no Department of Teacher Education
  • Steven K. Holland

    Steven K. Holland Associate Professor

    +47-73592201 steven.holland@ntnu.no Department of Teacher Education
  • Annepetra Røkke Jenssen

    Annepetra Røkke Jenssen Associate Professor

    +47-73559890 annepetra.r.jenssen@ntnu.no Department of Teacher Education
  • Geir Olav Kristensen

    Geir Olav Kristensen Assistant Professor physical education

    +47-73412842 +4795964460 geir.o.kristensen@ntnu.no Department of Teacher Education
  • Jon Sundan

    Jon Sundan Associate Professor

    +47-73412432 +4746791443 jon.sundan@ntnu.no Department of Teacher Education
  • Lars Woll

    Lars Woll Assistant Professor

    +47-73559364 lars.woll@ntnu.no Department of Teacher Education

External members

External members

  • Senior Lecturer Maria José Camacho-Miñano, Universidad Complutense Madrid
  • PhD Mikael Cronhjort, Högskolen i Gävle, Sweden
  • Senior Lecturer, Vaughan Cruickshank, University of Tasmania, Australia
  • Professor Roger Hadgraft, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
  • Professor Miguel Garcia Jaen, University of Alicante, Spain
  • Assistant professor Chad M. Killian, University of New Hampshire, USA
  • Antonio Knezevic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
  • Professor Salvador García Martínez, University of Alicante, Spain
  • Doc. dr. sc. Dario Novak, University of Zagreb, Croatia
  • Borgar Næss, Swimming expert
  • Professor Salvador Baena Morales, University of Alicante, Spain
  • Professor Alfredo Prieto, University of Alcalá
  • Dr Julia Sargent, The Open University, UK
  • Professor Juan Manuel Cortell Tormo, University of Alicante, Spain
  • Professor Alberto Ferriz Valero, University of Alicante, Spain
  • Dr Sue Whatman, Griffith University

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