Improvement of Survival Swimming Education Operations during COVID-19.

Kim, Min-Soo; Lee, Hyun-Su; Lee, Jae-Hyung

Kim, M.-S.; Lee, H.-S., and Lee, J.-H., 2023. Improvement of survival swimming education operations during COVID-19. In: Lee, J.L.; Lee, H.; Min, B.I.; Chang, J.-I.; Cho, G.T.; Yoon, J.-S., and Lee, J. (eds.) Multidisciplinary Approaches to Coastal and Marine Management. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 116, pp. 453-457. Charlotte (North Carolina), ISSN 0749-0208 The implementation of survival swimming education in Korea, as a means of raising safety awareness and equipping students with survival skills in the event of emergencies, was disrupted by limited in-person classes during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, the problems with and operational improvement plans for survival swimming education during the COVID-19 pandemic were determined by interviewing seven participants. The participants cited insufficient time for survival swimming education, non-systematization of educational programs, and reduced efficiency of survival swimming education programs as the problems with indoor survival swimming experiential education. To address these problems, an operational improvement plan for indoor survival swimming experiential education should include the extension of the duration of survival swimming education, systematization of the survival swimming education program, and implementation of Metaverse-based education and blended learning. The findings of this study contribute to improving the educational methodological aspects and effectiveness of indoor survival swimming experiential education.

CHARLOTTE (N.C.); SOUTH Korea; COVID-19 pandemic; EXPERIENTIAL learning; CONSCIOUSNESS raising; BLENDED learning; COASTAL zone management; BEACHES; SWIMMING

Journal of Coastal Research, 2023, Vol 116, p453

0749-0208

Academic Journal

10.2112/JCR-SI116-092.1