On May 20th,ZJU’s College of Education held an online exchange program on the theme of “Sports, Health and Leisure”,  a part of the second "Global Exchange and Cooperation Season" organized by the College of Education.

The program has invited well-known experts and scholars in the field of sports health from six universities at home and abroad, including the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Republic Polytechnic, the Pennsylvania State University, the University of Bath,Tohoku University, and the University of Northern Iowa.The program has a total of seven lectures,which are scheduled to be carried out in English on platforms such as ZOOM, overcoming the limitations of time and space.

May 20^th afternoon, the first lecture of the program was delivered by Professor Cindy Sit from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Professor Cindy Sit aimedto share the research frontiers concerning physical activity intervention for children and adolescents with special educational needs. From the perspective of theory and influencing factors,Professor Cindy Sit proposed a solution to the lack of physical activity of special children and adolescents. As she mentioned, thejointeffortsoffamilies,schoolsandsociety are beneficial to promote the reform and innovation of high-quality physical education classes and cultivate teams of professional teachers.

The online exchange program had enjoyed a good start with students’ great enthusiasm for learning.We hope that all the participants could gain through the lectures and apply acquired theoretical knowledge of health andsports to their lives and research.

Edited by WEN Jia’ning, LI Yijia, XIA Jingyan

Photo taken by LI Yijia