Articles - Applied Research Frontiers

Abstract

The aim of this study is to assess the satisfaction of physical education and sports’ trainee teachers of an open distance training on small private online course’s model which aims to develop professional skills for 70 future teachers through a questionnaire administered at the end of training to our two groups : hybrid and distanced. We used descriptive and inferential t-test statistics for equality of means and z-test of Comparisons of column proportions to examine the effect of the following independent variables: participants’ motivational factors, difficulties encountered benefits and prospects of these ODL-SPOCs on groups’ type formed at a threshold of p < 0.05. Results reveal a great motivation of trainee teachers to follow this training, as 70% of participants did not find any technical difficulty relating to MOODLE platform’s use. Likewise, the objective of these ODL-SPOCs has been reached with 100% of trainees having an average score above 13/20 and more than 80% of participants confirmed their pre-availability to relive this distance training experience and institutionalize it in training centers for future teachers in Morocco. The positive and encouraging results of our study serve as an important reference for university managers and teacher-trainers on the integration of ODL-SPOCs into professional training’s curriculum of future teachers.