Twelfth International Conference on Sport & Society

Abstract

The Inclusive Sport at School (ISS; Pérez-Tejero et al., 2013) is an educational programme developed for Physical Education (PE) classes for school students aged from 6 to 18. It aims to promote inclusive and paralympic sports through an inclusive methodology and to raise awareness regarding the practice opportunities for people with disability in sports (Ocete et al. 2015). This programme includes an online platform (www.deporteinclusivoescuela.com) with restricted access only to Spanish speakers PE teachers –ISS users–, where users can use different resources: cards with specific sport information (for teachers and students), questionnaires, videos and tasks, and also to create their own PE sessions from the tasks (25 per sport modality, 745 in total for 32 sport modalities). COVID-19 lockdown measures leaded to the closure of many schools all around the world. In order to provide PE teachers with a distance learning solution, we decided to massively open this tool for everyone who would like to access. Results show a huge growth in the use of the programme. For example, people who visited the website increased in 113,42% (16.254 –April-June 2020– vs. 7.616 –April-June 2019); 5.903 new users logged in (2.158 the previous year, 173,54% more users); and the ISS programme videos received 15.859 views, an increase of 34% with regard to 2019 (11.825 visits). In conclusion, PE teachers and new users proved that the online version of the ISS programme seems to be a very useful online learning platform to use with their students in a confinement situation.