About This Course
This is a flexible part-time, level 7 postgraduate short course delivered online.
Who is this Short Course suitable for?
This online distance learning module on Accelerating Expertise is suitable for anyone interested in understanding how to develop expertise and enhance human performance.
Why study this course?
This micro-credential course uses a problem-based learning approach to clarify the often complex answers to the question, "How do we develop expertise?"
The primary aim of this course is to provide a robust theoretical and empirical understanding of the expertise literature. By focusing on effective application, we aim to inform best practices in instruction, training, and feedback to enhance performance across various domains.
How long does this course take to complete?
This short course is delivered over a 12-week period. However, you will have access to all lecture material at the start of the course which will enable you to go as fast or as slow as your personal circumstances dictate.
Assessment
This flexible assessment allows the learner to follow their own interests by writing a coaching essay aimed at improving perceptual/motor skills in a particular sport or domain (e.g. business, education, music etc.). (Word count 2,500).
Further Information
This flexible assessment allows the learner to follow their own interests by writing a coaching essay aimed at improving perceptual/motor skills in a particular sport or domain (e.g. business, education, music etc.). (Word count 2,500).
Tutor
Dr Gavin Lawrence
Gavin is a senior lecturer and researcher in performance psychology. He is a member of the Institute for the Psychology of Elite Performance, Chair of Canoe Wales Talent and Performance committee, and Vice Chair of the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Psychical Activity (CIMSPA) North Wales Local Skills Economy Board. My Main interests are two fold: Motor Learning and Control with a particular focus on target directed aiming; Effective coaching practices, performance expertise and talent development. The primary aspect the latter interest is to better understand expertise development and ways to accelerate individuals towards expert performance. Be this through behavioural or Psychological practices.
His interests reside in ascertaining how practice structure and processes influence our understanding of effective coaching and talent development. For example, what are the discriminating factors between those who obtain and those who don’t obtain expertise and super elite status? Investigating practice structure to accelerate learning and inform ‘What’ practice you have to do, ‘When’ you have to do it, and ‘How’ much you have to do to increase your chance of reaching expertise status and success.
He has secured external funding for this Sport and Exercise Science research for UK Sport Inderdisciplinary Pathway2Podium project, the England and Wales Cricket Board, and Weightlifting Wales amongst others. These projects take a interdisciplinary approach to understanding talent development and expertise.
He has a young family, complete with two talent potentials, whom he adores. He is intolerant of fools, but open to all new ideas and learnings, particularly those around enhancing human performance; He is also a ‘failed’ athlete and passionate Drummer.
Course Content
What will you study on this course?
This short course is delivered by a Talent Development scientist who collaborates with leading sports organisations such as UK Sport and the England and Wales Cricket Board. The module will introduce students to an often-overlooked body of literature within the performance domain. Specifically, it explores how motor learning and control theories can be applied to high-performance settings to develop effective learning strategies and movement efficiency. Additionally, the course will cover skill acquisition literature, offering insights into how to effectively manipulate practice and performance environments to accelerate learning and expertise attainment.
List of Units
Learning Units
- Using Information Processing to enhance movement strategy.
- How do humans learn?
- Structuring practice effectively, including considerations of context, pressure, decision making, and challenge.
- Providing effective instruction and feedback
After each unit, there is a live seminar that provides a virtual environment where you can discuss thoughts, raise questions, and share experiences to increase your understanding.
Course Cost
Application
How to Apply
Please make sure you read and follow the step-by-step application guide as this will specify which sections of the application form are compulsory for the type of course you want to apply for and save you time.
Please prepare the following information (in a Word document):
- Current employment details;
- Years of experience, and employment history (where relevant)
- Name of staff member and organisation that have approved your funding for this module.
This will speed up the process of completing the application form.
To apply for this course, you need to create an account in our APPLICANT PORTAL
You will need access to the email address you specify while creating your account to confirm it.
After creating an account, you will see a homepage with several tabs:
- Personal
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You need to complete all sections before submitting your application.
When a section is complete, a ‘tick’ symbol will appear below it.
- Click on ‘Non-graduating applications / Stand alone Modules’, then select ‘Non-graduating postgraduate’.
- In the next section, select Non-Graduating Taught Modules in Sport Health and Exercise Science (NGGT/SHES) Click Save and Continue.
- On the next page, the default for the first question is Full Time. You need to change this to ‘Part time’:
- You now need to input the module code. Accelerating Expertise : the code is JXH-4105. This section must be completed for your application to be processed.
- You also need to state the start date. Please make your selection, then click ‘Save and Continue’.
- IMPORTANT: You do not need to write a personal statement to apply for this course. Instead, please upload the document including employment, experience and education information that you have created prior to starting the application that contains the name of your current employer, the number of years of experience you have, and your highest qualification to date. Click Save and continue.
You only need to enter the details of your highest qualification to date, e.g. if you have a postgraduate qualification, please only only include this.
You will be asked for evidence of the qualification. Please either upload a copy of your qualification if it's easily accessible, or upload the Word document again (that you prepared earlier).
details not required as you've already prepared this
Please scroll to the bottom of the page and click on ‘I have no employment history’ (as you have already provided this in your Word document).
If you are self-funding, please provide all details as appropriate.