The Obstacles That Encounter Postgraduate Students in The Colleges of Physical Education Using Digital Learning Platforms During The COVID-19 Pandemic Quarantine

Abstract

The study aims at investigating the obstacles that encounter the postgraduate students and their preference to take the exam via digital learning platforms at the colleges of Physical Education at Mustansiriyah University- Iraq; University of Anbar - Iraq; and University of Duhok- Kurdistan Rejoin- Iraq. The participants of the study were 30 male and female postgraduate students, the participants were chosen randomly, each university 10 students. The researchers set open questions to collect the data of the study. The research tries to answer the following questions: 1- Do you prefer to learn and interact via Digital Platforms? Why? 2- Do you prefer to take the exam via Digital Platforms? Why? Descriptive analysis was used to answer the questions of the study. The findings reveal that all participants do not like to learn via digital platform, but all participants prefer to take exam via digital platform. The results show that there are different obstacles, the most common are the weakness of the internet services, instructor is the center of the learning process, absence of interaction, students acquire quantitative information more than qualitative information, the feeling of nervous due to the slow broadcast of the lecture, and the lecture is Reading task oriented. The results also revealed that students prefer to take exam via digital learning platforms due to the facilities that such platforms provide.