Epic nets FA with goal-based learning
Epic, the UK's leading e-learning company, has been appointed
by The Football Association (FA) to produce 8 hours of web-delivered
e-learning on football psychology.
This will be the online component of a blended programme
of accredited learning, providing a rigorous introduction
to the basic elements of sports psychology. Learners who successfully
complete the programme will be awarded the Introductory Certificate
in Psychology in Sport (ICPS).
The course has been designed by a Working Party of Sports
Psychologists under the direction of The FA's Sports Psychologist
Dr. Andy Cale with the support of The FA Premier League, The
Football League, PFA and LMA together with the British Psychological
Society (BPS) and the British Association of Sport and Exercise
Sciences (BASES).
The course is targeted at the parents, teachers and coaches
of boys and girls aged 7-12 years of age. The emphasis of
the course is to increase the awareness of the needs of such
young players.
The importance of providing an enjoyable and purposeful
introduction to the game is accepted to be a prime factor
in continuity participation and interest in the game, and
The FA wishes to ensure there is greater understanding of
the needs of young players in their introduction to the game.
The online programme will provide the flexibility for leaders
to access the course, which will adopt a more leader centred
approach, including work based assignment, scenarios, problem
solving and assignments.
The programme designed by Epic will take a 'goal-based learning'
approach. Users will become the coach of a virtual team, and
will be invited to bring their own attitudes and experiences
to the story scenarios developed through the learning. This
highly engaging approach will also have eminently practical
aspects, however, in the shape of downloadable resources,
for example, that can be used in real live coaching sessions.
Andy Cale, Sports Psychologist of the FA said: 'The course will
focus upon how children learn, what motivates them and de-motivates
them so that it will significantly assist parents and coaches in
their understanding of children's involvement in football' Donald
Clark, Epic, said: 'e-learning has become mainstream in education
and training, and it is no accident that it is now being used in
the world's most popular mainstream sport-football'.
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