An Exploration of Physical Education and Management in Colleges

and Universities from the Perspective of Artificial Intelligence: A Case

Study of Wuhan Business University

Di Zhang

School of Physical Education and Equestrian, Wuhan Business University, Wuhan, China

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Education, Management, Sport.

Abstract: President Xi Jinping once sent a congratulatory letter to the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

and Education, pointing out that artificial intelligence is an important driving force leading the new round of

technological revolution and industrial change, which is profoundly changing the way people produce, live

and learn, and driving human society to usher in an intelligent era of human-machine collaboration, cross-

border integration and co-creation and sharing. President Xi Jinping emphasized that China attaches great

importance to the profound impact of AI on education, actively promotes the deep integration of AI and

education, facilitates educational transformation and innovation, gives full play to the advantages of AI, and

accelerates the development of education that accompanies everyone throughout their lives, education that is

equally accessible to everyone, education that is suitable for everyone, and education that is more open and

flexible. In the Internet+ era, artificial intelligence is rapidly entering the education field as both a new tool

for educational reform and new content for curriculum teaching, as well as providing new ideas for

educational management. Under the background that the leaders of the Party and the state attach great

importance to and constantly emphasize the empowerment of artificial intelligence to education, as a college

sports professional, the author takes Wuhan Business University as an example to explore the aspects to be

optimized and improved in college sports education and management from the perspective of artificial

intelligence, and tries to propose a solution path, in order to provide some reference and materials for the

development of college sports education and management in the new era for all peers to share.

1 INTRODUCTION

In his speech at the conference to celebrate the 40th

anniversary of reform and opening up, General

Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "we should

adhere to the concept of innovation as the first driving

force and talent as the first resource, implement the

innovation-driven development strategy, improve the

national innovation system, accelerate independent

innovation in key core technologies, and create a new

engine for economic and social development." (Wang

2019)

He stressed at the ninth collective study of the

Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee,

artificial intelligence is a strategic technology to lead

this round of technological revolution and industrial

change, with a strong spillover drive "head goose"

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effect. On the mobile Internet, big data, super

computing, sensor networks, brain science and other

new theories and new technologies, artificial

intelligence accelerated development, showing deep

learning, cross-border integration, human-machine

collaboration, open group intelligence, autonomous

control and other new features, which is having a

significant and far-reaching impact on economic

development, social progress, the international

political and economic landscape. In fact, China has

always attached great importance to the development

of artificial intelligence technology and established

the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence

(CAAI) in 1981.

While China's economy is developing at a high

quality, the country is accelerating the construction of

an innovative country and a strong science and

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An Exploration of Physical Education and Management in Colleges and Universities from the Perspective of Artiﬁcial Intelligence: A Case Study of Wuhan Business University.

DOI: 10.5220/0011235100003444

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technology nation. In 2017, the State Council issued

the Development Plan for a New Generation of

Artificial Intelligence (Guo Fa [2017] No. 35), which

put forward a clear strategic goal of three steps for the

AI industry. In the 2018 government work report,

Premier Li Keqiang pointed out that: strengthening

the research and application of a new generation of

artificial intelligence, promoting "Internet+" in

multiple fields such as sports, and AI+sports will

become an important innovation point in the field of

sports. Taking Wuhan Business University as an

example, this paper explores how to draw on useful

experience, reasonably introduce artificial

intelligence technology, update the concept of college

sports management and education, and devote itself

to opening new ideas for the construction of college

sports, which will help the overall healthy

development of college sports, and is also a bit of

commitment and contribution to the construction of a

strong sports country in the new era.

2 IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:

ASPECTS OF PHYSICAL

EDUCATION AND

MANAGEMENT IN WUHAN

BUSINESS UNIVERSITY THAT

NEED TO BE IMPROVED

2.1 The Aspect of Stadium

Management

2.1.1 Basic Overview of the Venues

Wuhan Business University is the first batch of pilot

institutions for transformation development in Hubei

Province, the only university with three competition

venues for World Military Games, and the only

university with equestrian major in China,

undertaking the equestrian and modern pentathlon

events of the 2019 World Military Games, and its

sports facilities are the first-class configurations

among the universities in Hubei (see the table below).

Table 1: Overview and Basic Data of Main Venues of

Wuhan Business University.

Venues Description Specifications

Gymnasium

Indoor

multifunctional

gymnasium

With 2185 seats for spectators,

including basketball, badminton,

fitness, table tennis and other sports

function rooms or fields

Aquarium

Indoor

temperature-

controlled

swimming pool

With 514 seats for spectators (252

fixed seats and 262 movable seats),

there are competition pools (10

lanes, 50*25m, 2m deep, 16.3m

clear height) and training pools (8

lanes, 50*21m, 0.8-1.8m deep,

10.7m clear height).

Equestrian

stadium

Professional

competition venue

in accordance with

FEI standards

2,120 seats for spectators, an 800-

ring race track, an equestrian

competition course (90m*60m,

mixed sand), two warm-up courses

(both 60m*60m, mixed sand and

natural grass respectively)

Athletic fields

Standard size

outdoor athletic

fields

Two athletic fields, one artificial

turf soccer field with 400m running

track, one natural turf soccer field

with 400m running trac

University

Student Center

Multi-purpose

Complex

4-story building (under

construction), including various

sports venues

Tennis courts

Weatherproof

tennis courts

2 standard courts

2.1.2 Insufficient Concept and Technology

of Green Low-carbon Operation

Venues

There are various stadiums in Wuhan Business

University, and some of them even reach

international standards. Although as a university, the

main function of stadiums is to serve teachers,

students and nearby residents, without aiming at

profit, the daily management of stadiums is still based

on manual records, for the energy control and turn-on

and turn-off of water, electricity, gas and heat is also

based on manpower, and the operation of stadiums as

a whole is built in a common traditional management

mode. Therefore, on the basis of focusing on the basic

service objects, the school's concept of green and

low-carbon operation of the venue has yet to be

strengthened, and the access to artificial intelligence,

Internet + and other technologies to the venue has yet

to be realized.

2.1.3 Intelligent Venue Services Not Yet

Built

In order to meet the demand of the majority of

students and teachers for sports and fitness activities,

most of the sports venues of Wuhan Business

University adopt the principle of limiting time

sections to open for use to all students and teachers,

but the venue services are not yet intelligent and

humane enough. Such as badminton, basketball,

tennis and other venues are more popular and have

more participants, but the number of the venues is

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limited, and there is also a lack of intelligent online

booking system and programs, and students and

teachers sometimes have a poor experience on

account of ‘coming first and get first’ situation. The

comprehensive service function of the venue is also

not perfect, the needs of energy replenishment like

liquid calories (a sports drink or a gel chased with

water) by teachers and students in the sports venues

objectively exist, but are not effectively satisfied.

There is also the fact that the identity verification of

people entering and leaving the venue mainly relies

on verbal inquiries and checks by security and venue

managers, and there is no intelligent automatic

identification function.

2.2 Aspect of Physical Education and

Training

2.2.1 Intelligent Teaching Is Still Basically

in a Blank State in Physical Education

Classes

At present, nationwide, colleges and universities are

generally building intelligent classrooms, which are a

typical materialization of smart learning

environment, a high-end form of multimedia and

network classrooms, and it is a new classroom built

with the help of Internet of Things technology, cloud

computing technology and intelligent technology.

Wuhan Business University is also vigorously

building intelligent classrooms in order to further

improve the level of smartness and informatization of

education in our university, but the intelligent

teaching in physical education class is still in a blank

state. The traditional physical education teaching

method is much overly means-based and formulaic.

It gives excessive consideration to the laws of

kinesiology and physiology, and pays less attention

to students' emotions, experiences and needs.

The application of traditional teaching methods in

teaching reflects the authority of teachers in teaching.

The seriousness of the classroom atmosphere and the

purely indoctrination teaching method subvert the

students' main position in learning and lead to the

passivity of their learning; at the same time, ignoring

the main factors such as students' interests, hobbies

and opinions, it can directly undermine students'

creativity and motivation. Without good emotional

experience, students can also be fed up with boring

physical education classes (C4gym 2021).

2.2.2 Application of AI Technology Not Yet

Applied in the Extracurricular Sports

Exercise and Training Scene

In addition to the physical education courses arranged

by the university, there are various kinds of

extracurricular sports exercises and trainings in

schools, and they are usually organized by various

sports clubs and representing teams, with high

participation and motivation of students. Although

our university chooses to insist on providing them

with free venues and various facilities and equipment,

however, some intelligent training aids or systems

have not been configured.

If there is AI smart equipment configured in

extracurricular physical exercise and training

scenarios, setting up a personalized sports exercise

database, allowing students to play and exercise

while being able to look up training data, it can

improve students' motivation and lead to more

effective improvement of their physical quality and

skills. In the physical exercise environment

configured with advanced intelligent equipment, it

also facilitates the creation of regular and technically

supported physical activity conditions and a good

exercise atmosphere, promoting the improvement of

the overall physical health and sports level of students

in school.

3 EXPLORING THE PATH OF

APPLYING ARTIFICIAL

INTELLIGENCE

TECHNOLOGY TO PHYSICAL

EDUCATION AND

MANAGEMENT IN WUHAN

BUSINESS UNIVERSITY

3.1 Artificial Intelligence Optimizing

the Management and Operation of

College Venues

As mentioned above, the sports venues of Wuhan

Business University are comparatively well-

equipped, but in the overall operation and

management, there is still a lack of support from

artificial intelligence technology, and there is still

much room for optimization. From the actual and

realistic needs of the school, the author believes that

that two aspects can be optimized, such as green and

low-carbon operation of venues and intelligent venue

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services (Fu, Wei and Liu 2021), and the specific

ideas are shown in the following table.

Table 2: The application of artificial intelligence

technology to be recommended for university stadiums.

Technolog

Purpose Description

Artificial intelligence

access control system

Identification of

people entering and

leaving the venue

Relying on technical support such as face

recognition, accurate user portrait and 5G,

the system can easily achieve multiple

identity verification without having to be

bothered, thus effectively enhancing the

technological experience of visitors.

Artificial intelligence

energy control

system

Intelligent control

of the operating

status of water,

electricity, gas and

other energy-

consuming

equipment

The data on temperature, humidity,

brightness, air quality, etc. can be obtained

in real time through environmental sensors,

and the operating status of air conditioning,

lighting, exhaust, purification and other

equipment can be intelligently regulated

based on analysis and judgment by artificial

intelligence, Internet of Things and other

technologies, which not only effectively

saves operational energy consumption, but

also ensures a good service environment for

the venue.

Artificial intelligence

security emergency

response system

For stadium

emergency response

Artificial intelligence-enabled smart

stadiums can detect sudden, abnormal and

emergency conditions of facilities and

personnel through induction devices in a

timely manner, and automatically start

emergency response processing programs,

thus safeguarding personal safety and

roperty security of the venues

Smart Online APP

Intelligent venue

management and

reservation system

Venue administrators can monitor the

utilization of venues and allocate them on

demand through the program line, and

school staff, students, and nearby residents

can book venues for exercise through

mobile phone online software to improve

the efficiency of venue utilization and solve

the problem of no sports and fitness venues.

3.2 Artificial Intelligence Empowering

Physical Education Teaching

Activities

In the context of national encouragement of Internet+

education innovation, theoretical courses in

universities are currently more closely integrated

with intelligent teaching. However, according to the

authors' observation, smart and intelligent innovation

and implementation of physical education courses are

not yet common. Traditional physical education is

difficult to quantify, record, monitor and analyze.

Through the introduction of technology and

scientific teaching solutions, physical education

smart class solutions can be taught more

systematically, scientifically, intelligently, and

interestingly. If big data monitoring and intelligent

analysis software is introduced in physical education

classes and sports club training, entering the stage of

physical education data visualization and making

physical education more intelligent through AI

analysis of big data. This kind of intelligent sports

teaching management, digitalization and

visualization of teaching process and accurate

analysis of teaching data can promote the

transformation of traditional sports teaching to new

intelligent sports teaching mode, which can

eventually improve the quality of sports teaching.

3.3 Optimization of Physical Education

System Design by Artificial

Intelligence Technology

The optimization of physical education teaching

system by artificial intelligence can be described in

several aspects. One aspect is the public physical

education course selection system for all students. At

present, the public physical education course system

of Wuhan Business University is based on the web

design of the school portal, with low data carrying

and processing analysis ability, simple solidification

of port functions, large number of users and

concentrated access during the course selection time,

which often leads to overload collapse and system

error, etc. It is not stable enough to run, resulting in

the dissatisfaction of some students who have not

chosen or have chosen the wrong course, and has also

affected the normal operation of teaching work to a

certain extent. If the physical education course

selection system is fully upgraded or redeveloped

through the accurate calculation of artificial

intelligence technology, large-capacity data storage,

reasonable architecture design, etc. to ensure the

stability, smoothness and ease of use of the physical

education course selection system, it will provide

more convenient and efficient auxiliary functions for

physical education teaching (Li 2021).

Another aspect is the optimization of the

evaluation of the teaching and learning system.

Usually, teachers and students evaluate each other

after a physical education course, and the feedback

results are based on a systemic fixed form, which

cannot reflect the problems of teachers' "teaching"

and students' "learning" comprehensively and

accurately. If we use artificial intelligence technology

to process complex data and deep thinking ability, we

can give more comprehensive reference opinions on

teaching and learning from multiple perspectives

such as teaching, learning, examination, evaluation,

measurement, preference, opinions and suggestions,

which is also helpful to promote the progress of

teaching and learning together.

3.4 Establishing Sports Big Data

Monitoring and Evaluation System

Usually, colleges and universities will conduct

physical fitness test for college students every year,

but this test is a fixed period of targeted testing, which

is not a dynamic mode of continuous tracking. The

artificial intelligence technology using big data

monitoring and evaluation can be a collection of big

data contents such as students' physical health

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monitoring and evaluation, physical education class

performance analysis, students' extracurricular

physical activity trajectory query, extracurricular

sports activities and competitions, various sports

classroom teaching and living habits, which is an

important content of campus intelligent sports and

reflects data "intelligent extraction It is an important

reference for "intelligent extraction" and "intelligent

analysis" of data, an important basis for intelligent

decision-making and a basis for decision making, and

provides comprehensive and systematic analysis

results and evaluation criteria for campus smart sports

(Li and Qin 2021).

At the same time, with the intelligent sports

platform system, students' search records are tracked,

and their access preferences are analyzed based on

their search data, so as to actively provide students

with the access functions they may need, such as

recommending high-quality sports courses,

displaying sports course teaching programs, and

pushing domestic and international sports teaching

news, to give students and teachers a better access

experience and promote students' more targeted

participation in physical exercise and thus improve

their physical quality.

4 CONCLUSIONS

In 2018, the Ministry of Education issued a notice on

the Action Plan for Artificial Intelligence Innovation

in Higher Education, which clearly proposed to

promote the transformation of school education and

teaching, evolve to an intelligent campus on the basis

of digital campus, build a technology-enabled

teaching environment, explore a new teaching model

based on artificial intelligence, reconstruct the

teaching process and realize teaching according to the

material (Yao 2018).

Currently, the materialized design and production

of artificial intelligence is mainly based on

technologies such as robot design and manufacturing,

voice and image recognition, intelligent detection and

analysis, and data collection and processing. At this

stage, it is still unrealistic to replace teachers with

machines to complete education, but empowering and

innovating education with the help of the most

cutting-edge and advanced AI technology is indeed a

correct path in line with the background of the

contemporary development. Especially in the field of

physical education, there are not many precedents, so

it is worth exploring and trying. In the context of the

national efforts to build an innovative country and a

strong sports country, college sports workers should

innovate and try to create a new situation of college

sports education and management with the

perspective of artificial intelligence.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Professionals and students of WBU surveyed are

much appreciated. Special thanks to Yi Ke and Xu

Leihan who have granted me invaluable help.

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