STUDY REGARDING THE IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATIONAL PLATFORMS IN PROFESSIONALIZING THE PERFORMANCE ATHLETES ENROLLED IN HIGHER EDUCATION SPORTS INSTITUTIONS
STUDY REGARDING THE IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATIONAL PLATFORMS IN PROFESSIONALIZING THE PERFORMANCE ATHLETES ENROLLED IN HIGHER EDUCATION SPORTS INSTITUTIONS

Summary/Abstract: Sport performance has become a social phenomenon. Today’s requirements imposed on professional athletes are increasingly higher, in terms of the time spent in training, involvement and commitment to achieve the rigorous goals, daily schedule, diet, etc. So, professional training through regular classes seems something difficult to fulfill. Today, with the development of new technologies and upgrading higher education have been created and have implemented new forms of training. So employed persons including the athletes can choose for these forms in order to prepare professional career. The need for professionals for the various sport branches, in parallel with the academic preparation was solved by the educational offer of universities. Higher education in sports has developed various forms of vocational training so that sportsmen would be able to train and build a professional career in parallel with performance sports. Extra-mural education is one of these forms in Romania. Part of the activity is conducted through the use of an educational platform. The aim of this research is to study the role and importance of a platform in professionalizing the performance athletes enrolled in extra-mural education of National University of Physical Education and Sports from Bucharest. The research methods used in this study were the survey questionnaire applied to a group of 65 students from different sports, SWOT analyses, basic statistical-mathematical method. The results revealed that the educational platform is an opportunity and facilitator to access the information, to study, to solve the demands and to make the communication between professional athletes and teachers easier.

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