Research on the Optimization of Smart Physical Education Teaching Paths from the Perspective of Digital Education

Abstract

In the context of the strategic direction of accelerating the construction of a sports power and deepening the digitalization of education in the "15th Five-Year Plan", smart sports teaching is presented with new development opportunities. This study takes 492 valid documents collected in the CNKI database from 2015 to 2026 as samples and conducts a visual analysis using CiteSpace 6.4.R1. The research finds that the current research hotspots are mainly concentrated in three clusters: technology application, teaching models, and teacher development. However, there are still deep-seated problems such as superficial integration of technology, absence of process evaluation and data governance, incomplete teacher development mechanisms, and weak support systems. To systematically address these challenges, this study constructs a closed-loop optimization path of "competency support - resource guarantee - teaching implementation - governance escort", and embeds a data ethics framework, providing a new paradigm for the systematic implementation of smart sports teaching.