Reflection

How did creating your ePortfolio artefact develop you understanding of the Course Learning Outcomes, the Graduate Outcomes and your own learning experience during the course?

Sports and leisure was an interesting course, it was the only course where I felt I had total control about the subject I'm going to talk about which encourages creativity. At first, the title of the course was a bit misleading which I thought the course is going to talk specifically about sports and leisure activities which was not the case. This course gave me a better understanding in the way sports and leisure interact with our society, for example, The Club or The British Club was founded to provide a community for the expats which at that time was almost rare. Moreover, we explored how sports and leisure can change with generations especially with the evolution of the twentieth century and the discovery of oil. Also, this course incentivised both teamwork and independent learning, where as a group we had to do a project but as an independent we had to get creative without questions. In addition, we have explored how gender, race and age can affect participations in both leisure and sport. Lastly, we took the IOC MOOC courses which showed us the role of psychology in sports and the role of sports in the health of a nation, for example, fifty years ago the average life expectancy was exponentially lower compared to today, and sports was a major factor in that increase. Overall, I think this course was a unique course because it has offered a specific thing which is different to other English courses which is a high degree of freedom in our projects which I have found to be quite enjoyable.