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Centre for Research in Sport and Health Science, Iceland University of Education |
 The University of Iceland (HI) is the largest university in Iceland, since its recent amalgamation with the Icelandic University of Education. The School of Education -- of which the Faculty of Sport, Social Education and Leisure Studies is a part -- has operated at the university level for 30 years and towards teacher education for 100 years. It recognises the importance of international cooperation in education and research. The University is also a leader in the development of Distance Education programmes in the country. .
The Shool of Education has approximately 230 faculty and staff members and a student population of about 2500. It operates research programmes for students, teachers and professionals in the field of education and social pedagogy. The centre runs both independent research programmes as well as programmes in cooperation with other institutions and schools for the general public, therefore has great expertise and competence for this project.
The Centre for Research in Sport and Health Science at the University of Iceland will be in charge of making the end product of this project. It will supervise and control the pedagogical work to the highest level of quality for the public non academic teachers/instructor or coach.
It will bridge the work from the technical excellence of the University of Edinburgh to a high pedagogical, user friendly project that will be set up by our on-line partner CAPDM. The University of Education takes pride in being an institution characterised by ambition, broad-mindedness and progressiveness in the fields of education excellence in long distance learning for students and the general public.
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Icelandic Swimming Association |
 The Swimming Federation of Iceland is one of many sports federations in the country and is the 3rd largest federation in Iceland. There are approximately 150 public pools in Iceland. The Federation plays a major role in educating coaches for both competition and safe recreation with learners ranging from the age of two years to master swimmers up to 90 years of age. Coaches/teachers are educated on non academic levels to teach swimming for varied application including water safety, competitive swimming, water polo, general public swimming and masters swimming.
The Swimming Federation of Iceland is the end user of the developed product. By using ICT, coaches and teachers working for or with the Federation in lifelong swimming education will have much easier access to further education than in the current programme. The Educational committee of the federation will specify the courses and broad content areas and will provide continuous feedback during development to ensure that the content meets the knowledge, skill, and pedagogical competence needs of the coaches and teachers working in the service of the Federation structure. The Swimming Federation will also ensure that the ‘hands-on’ practical components dovetail appropriately and optimally with the on-line components.
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Centre for Aquatics Research and Education, University of Edinburgh |
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 Established in 1582, The University of Edinburgh is one of the leading academic universities in Britain. It’s academic ranking (2007 Times Higher Education Supplement) is 5th in Britain and 23rd in the world. Its Chancellor is HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. Due to its international academic standing it is a member of the Russell, Coimbra, LERU, and Universitas 21 groups of universities. It currently comprises 17,135 undergraduate students, 6,585 postgraduate students and 7,700 staff.
The Centre for Aquatics Research and Education (CARE) is within the Department of Physical Education, Sport and Leisure Studies (PESLS) in the School of Education in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. (www.care.ed.ac.uk) CARE was established in 2002 following the appointment of Dr Ross Sanders to the Chair of Sport Science in January 2000. |
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 CAPDM spun out of Heriot-Watt University in 1996, but were the internal development team who designed, built and project managed the highly successful on-line MBA – and we still do all the content management and production work on this programme to this day. This programme is the biggest and arguably the most successful implementation of large scale on-line distance learning in the UK, if not Europe. We developed an explicit knowledge management strategy for the university to develop, build and exploit its learning assets, employing ISO standards (SGML & XML) for developing formal information architectures. Our areas of strength are in XML and web technologies, but also in most contemporary e-learning designs, technologies and methodologies. Having designed and delivered a number of on-line programmes that earn 7 figure annual incomes (GBP £) for clients, we have long experience of developing on a grand scale.
We are many things, including an e-publishing company, but one that has adopted a very contemporary XML-workflow approach.
CAPDM is based in Edinburgh, Scotland. |
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Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences, University of Copenhagen |
 The Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences at the University of Copenhagen has served as the main and largest institution for the education in Physical education in Denmark since 1909. The Centre for Sport Research was established in 1991 as an initiative of the Ministry of Education.
The University of Copenhagen has over 37000 students in eight faculties and over 7000 employees. with over 1500 academic teachers. The University strives to prepare students for a broad range of job opportunities in the private and public sectors. The University Specializes in Exchange and to qualify experience with pedagogical analysis and development of tools in learning processes with use of ICT- Instruments.
The Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences provides additional expertise in movement education with particular emphasis on the socio-cultural aspects associated with movement experiences, social interaction, and identity. It has extensive experience in developing lifesaving educational courses with a special focus on ICT-supported study processes incorporating IT and video. The research group ‘Body, Learning and Identity’ emphasises: (i) teaching on physical/bodily activities contributing to developing identity and influencing the learning processes going on within social practice, and (ii) Learning and identity processes within sport with focus on the body as the pivotal point for kinesthetic and aesthetic learning processes.
The strong emphasis on pedagogical teaching at the University will also have great impact on the ‘friendliness’ and apprporiateness of the project on the learners.
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