In the context of the coordinated advancement of educational digital transformation and the "Healthy China" strategy, digital technology has become the core engine driving the high-quality development of university physical education. This paper takes private universities in Guangdong Province as the research object, using methods such as literature review and logical analysis, to systematically explore the current application status, core issues, and deep influencing factors of digital technology in physical education teaching. By drawing on advanced practical experiences from both domestic and international sources, a targeted development strategy system is constructed. The research shows that digital technology has been initially applied in physical education teaching in private universities in Guangdong Province, achieving phased results in expanding teaching time and space and improving teaching efficiency. However, there are still problems such as shallow application level, unbalanced resource allocation, insufficient digital literacy of teachers, and poor adaptability of models. The root causes lie in limited funding, lack of teacher training, incomplete management system, and lagging teaching concepts. Based on this, this paper constructs a four-dimensional coordinated development strategy of "funding guarantee - teacher training - resource construction - management optimization", providing theoretical references and practical inspirations for promoting the deep integration of digital technology with physical education teaching in private universities in Guangdong Province, resolving application difficulties, and achieving the connotative development of physical education.

Haiyan Zhang, Xiaoxia Li, Wei Li, Le Ning, Sifan Yao. Research on the Application and Development Strategies of Digital Technology in Physical Education in Private Universities in Guangdong Province. Frontiers in Educational Research (2026), Vol. 9, Issue 3: 68-74. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2026.090310.

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