REPs Magazine Fitness Matters Issue 9 | Page 22

PROGRESS TO SUCCESS Knowledge is power – so the saying goes – and as one of the UK’s leading providers of personal training and fitness instructor qualifications, Study Active certainly echo this sentiment, as Craig Smith finds out. ir Francis Bacon’s now famous maxim has in itself a wealth of fulfilment, but combine that with hands-on support for those starting up within the fitness industry and a link-up with REPs, and it really does hit the spot! S So, what are the secrets to Study Active’s success? Well, it’s a fusion of blended learning and the maintenance of quality standards, meaning students who enrol on one of their courses are in the best hands. Managing Director of Study Active, James Luscombe, is a keen advocate of his company’s blended learning approach and 22 FM “ Our assessment days are as much developmental days as they are exam based.” the benefit it has on the fitness professionals of tomorrow: “Blended learning is something that we like to think we do very well…it is blended learning as it should be.” www.exerciseregister.org Not to be confused with online learning, blended learning is “not a case of delivering an online course; it is a case of giving students a menu; options as to different means of media that they can study their learning outcomes and prepare them adequately for a robust assessment”. “This can be via numerous options. Online learning is included in there, so for a topic like anatomy, online learning could be a very useful tool to use. However, anything which is studied with any online component does need contact and therefore if someone was studying something like anatomy, reading our online resources, they would also have