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This paper presents a case study evaluation results of a VCOP to prevent abuse in sports and a whistleblowing service. The VCOP has been one of the most highly anticipated trends in higher education in recent years. Delivering web-based learning to potentially thousands of users at a time, it has dramatically expanded universities’ reach and provided an indirect income boost through greater global brand awareness. The idea of a VCOP is that the learner becomes the teacher from one case to another. This enables users to interact and exchange knowledge. Abusement and harassment in sports is a severe problem that unfortunately blossomed the last 3 years. HALT project aims to tackle thess behaviors and support all members of sports industry (athletes, coaches, parents and staff) with knowledge in order to detect and avoid them. According to the evaluation results this VCOP is complete, well-structured and segmented, covering the most important parts of coaching.
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This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
The authors of this research would like to thank HALT team who generously shared their time, experience, and materials for the purposes of this project.
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Politopoulos, N., Tsiatsos, T., Douka, S., Shiakou, M. (2022). Preliminary Evaluation of a Platform Integrating a VCOP to Prevent Abuse in Sports and a Whistleblowing Service. In: Auer, M.E., Tsiatsos, T. (eds) New Realities, Mobile Systems and Applications. IMCL 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 411. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96296-8_102
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