Abstract
Online deliveries have recently been actively used in teaching due to their unique strengths. Although online deliveries are known for cognitive and fitness-based improvements, an understanding of the effectiveness of teaching motor skills online is needed. Thus, this systematic review summarized the existing studies using online delivery to improve motor skills and concluded that online delivery is effective for skill learning. Electronic database searches yielded 15 relevant studies meeting eligibility criteria published by July 2023. Out of 59 total skills, 36 total comparisons with effects, small ( n = 15), medium ( n = 7), and high ( n = 14) were identified. Although this review cannot determine whether online delivery is more effective than in-person delivery, it concludes that online modalities can teach motor or specialized skills to diverse populations. Fruitful future work should include robustly designed studies examining all three learning modalities (in-person, synchronous, and asynchronous) and novel motor skills to compare their effectiveness.