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Dual careers defined as enabling education or work, promote the attainment of a new career after the sporting career, and protect and safeguard the position of athletes. The success of dual career arrangements is largely dependent on individual, personalised pathways enabled through the use of rich-mediated technologies that will facilitate athlete’s effort to adapt to the changing employment needs. GOAL (Gamified and Online Activities for Learning to support dual career of athletes, http://goal.csd.auth.gr/) will effectively start dual careers for athletes embracing their awareness to balance sport training and education and, at a later stage, sport training and employment.
The aim of this study is to present the project, highlight the importance of dual careers, describe the results of the project’s needs analysis, conduct a state of the art about e-learning platforms and serious games design and summarize GOAL’s future work.
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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 GOAL project team who generously shared their time, experience, and materials for the purposes of this project.
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Tsiatsos, T., Douka, S., Politopoulos, N., Stylianidis, P., Ziagkas, E., Zilidou, V. (2018). Gamified and Online Activities for Learning to Support Dual Career of Athletes (GOAL). In: Auer, M., Tsiatsos, T. (eds) Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning. IMCL 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 725. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75175-7_61
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