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!
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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
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“
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.”
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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