Introduction

This page brings together the course content as a capstone page for the Sport Informatics and Analytics course. It an opportunity to reflect on the epistemic culture^[1] of the subject field.

The aim of this OERu course has been to explore the intersection of informatics and analytics in sport contexts. We hope you have had an opportunity to visit the four themes that form the scaffold for the course.

By the end of your online activity, we hope you have:

Thought about your personal learning journey in a course that is founded on connectivist principles.
Engaged in some pattern recognition activities.
Explored diverse approaches to performance monitoring.
Considered how you might use augmented information with a range of audiences.

In the Introduction to this course, we anticipated that at the completion of this course, you would be able to:

Demonstrate disciplined and critical insights into the observation, recording and analysis of performance in sport training and competition environments.

Apply knowledge of better practice in sport informatics and analytics to your own sport contexts.

Reflect critically on the use of sport informatics and analytics in order to anticipate and develop opportunities to transform your own and others’ performances.

For more information about these learning outcomes see this page.

If you are contemplating the submission of an ePortfolio of your work for credit, we hope you have found sufficient stimulus to reflect on your learning experiences.

Reference

↑ Cestina, Karin. “Culture in global knowledge societies: knowledge cultures and epistemic cultures”, 1999, p.363. Retrieved on 12 January 2016.