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The growing sector of sport industry increases the demand of sport management specialists capable of using digital technologies in their work. Among the most important fields, in which they need to gain proficiency is data analytics, which is expected to revolutionize the sports in near future. This suggests developing and offering of relevant technology courses to sport management students. Various factors (briefly discussed in the sequel) make the design of such courses a challenging task. In this paper we share our experience of how one can overcome the possible obstacles. We present the main aspects and components of a course on Data Analytics in Sport Management at a small liberal arts college and explain how the educational process is organized. The course is offered by using mostly Open Educational Resources (OER) and other free sources which are described in the paper. This complies with the aspiration of many universities to achieve reduction of textbook cost for their students.
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Part of the work reported in this article is supported by the 2019 Cooperative Research Project at the Research Center of Biomedical Engineering and the Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University.
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Barneva, R.P., Brimkov, V.E. (2019). Teaching Data Analytics to Sport Management Majors: A Practical Approach. In: Uden, L., Liberona, D., Sanchez, G., RodrÃguez-González, S. (eds) Learning Technology for Education Challenges. LTEC 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1011. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20798-4_35
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