Our Work

2012 Learning Legacies

Status: in progress

Description

A Project to Identify and Disseminate Open Educational Resources Related to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

We aim to identify, develop as necessary, make accessible and promote resources in four main areas:

• materials available in the public domain which are related to the planning, delivery and legacy of the 2012 and other Games and which can be used as case material or data in a range of student assignments in different subject areas and at different levels
• materials which make the wealth of research related to the Olympics and Paralympics accessible to a wider student audience
• learning resources related to the Olympics and Paralympics which are already in use and which can be made available for wider application: this already includes 30 case studies and 30 discussion starters developed by HLST and further significant resources developed by LinkBC Materials produced by a leading academic publisher, Routledge, which will be made freely available

It is anticipated that these educational resources will support the achievement of a wide range of learning outcomes by students and we shall ensure that they are presented in a way which identifies the learning outcomes for which they are considered most suited, including acquisition of knowledge and understanding as well as the development of skills. The educational resources and the learning outcomes which they support will also be related to the Olympic and Paralympic values and the legacies to which the Games aspire. These both explicitly and implicitly reflect contemporary issues in curriculum development including ESD, multicultural and global awareness, internationalisation, and student health and well‐being.

The Olympics and Paralympics can provide resources for learning from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Our approach to application of such resources, therefore, will extend beyond the HLST subjects to include, in the first instance, programmes in the business education spectrum with the potential to enhance curricula and engage students more widely in other subject areas. Other subject areas to benefit from the resources could include, for example, sociology, psychology, medicine, politics, philosophy, media, urban planning, architecture and environmental studies.

Particular features of our project are a partnership with Routledge, a leading academic publisher internationally with a well‐established portfolio related to the Olympics and sport in general, and with Podium, the Further and Higher Education Unit for the 2012 Games.  Routledge agree to make freely available previously privately owned resources whilst Podium are providing facilities, links with initiatives across the UK related to the 2012 Games and access to LOGOC. We are also in discussion with the OU as regards potential collaboration and links to BBC resources.

We shall report on project progress on the Learning Legacies website www.heacademy.ac.uk/learninglegacies/home, via Twitter and our “2,012 Students” Facebook Group.

Organisations / Institutions

Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Network

Business, Management, Accountancy and Finance Network

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