When sports betting became legal in Ohio on Jan. 1, educators at Ohio University in Athens were two years ahead of the curve.
In May 2020, Ohio University introduced its online sports gambling education program, focused on preventing the impacts of sports-betting fraud. The three-part certification program is provided in partnership with U.S. Integrity and Cyanna Education Services, and is presented through the university’s AECOM Center for Sports Administration.
Matt Cacciato of the Ohio University sports gambling education program told the Cleveland Jewish News that the university had a feeling, even then, that sports gambling was on a path to eventual legalization, and as educators, it’s “incumbent on us as educators to stay on the cutting edge of education.”
