Oleh: Muhammad Farid Wajdi *)
BLOGGURU – Alhamdulillah, satu kesyukuran dan kebahagiaan tersendiri hidup dimana perkembangan teknologi informasi dan komunikasi demikian pesatnya hingga memungkinkan mereguk nikmatnya menuntut ilmu dan pembelajaran tanpa batas. Semuanya ini dapat pula terwujud atas berkah waktu luang, kesempatan, dan kesehatan yang baik. Hari ini, Rabu (24/9/2025), saat berada di Hotspot Center dalam Lingkungan Ponpes Modern Putri IMMIM Minasatene-Pangkep, penulis menyempatkan mengikuti 6 Free Courses “Health, Sports & Psychology” di situs OpenLearn, the Open University yang berpusat di Inggris, dengan kampus utama di Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Inggris (United Kingdom).
Keenam kursus pada Menu “Health, Sports & Psychology” OpenLearn The Open University ini sudah lama penulis akrabi materi dan sebenarnya merupakan pengulangan (muraja’ah) materi pembelajaran tentang “Dunia Kesehatan, Olahraga, dan Psikologi”. Keenam Kursus yang penulis ikuti ini bersifat Free (gratis) di situs OpenLearn, termasuk sertifikat tanda penyelesaian kursus yang disebut “Statement of Participation”.
Ketiga Kursus singkat (2-6 JP) yang penulis ikuti langsung diselesaikan pada hari ini, Rabu (24/9/2025) adalah sebagai berikut (lengkap dengan deskripsi dan outcome dalam Bahasa Inggris):
Free course: Perspectives on social work: individual stories (2 hours study, Level 1: Introductory)
In this series of four interviews you will watch a service user, a carer, a social worker and a social work manager talking about their different experiences. The interviews will illustrate the importance of listening to people’s stories, the importance of relationship in social work practice, and the importance of the context in which social work practice takes place. You will consider questions about the interviews, and will reflect on the implications for practice of what the individuals have to say.
Course Learning Outcomes:
After studying this course, you should be able to: (1) think about the impact of biography on personal lives, (2) consider the role of relationship in social work practice, and (3) consider the importance of context in social work practice.
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Lihat disini: Statement of Participation: perspectives_on_social_work__individual_stories_printable
Free course: Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings (5 hours study, Level 1: Introductory)
According to the Professional Standards Authority, Fitness to Practise is ‘the process used by statutory professional regulators to handle complaints or deal with concerns made about health and care professionals on their registers’. Witnesses to misconduct can be called to give evidence in a Fitness to Practise investigation and hearing. A proportion of these will include patients, service users and colleagues who may have been significantly harmed by the registrant’s behaviour. Such cases may include behaviours associated with sexual abuse, harassment and bullying, theft and fraud, and lasting clinical harm. We know from the research in the criminal justice system that there is potential for additional trauma caused by the experience of being a witness. This evidence-based course provides learning about the Fitness to Practise process and being a witness.
Course Learning Outcomes:
After studying this course, you should be able to: (1) understand the role of professional regulators, (2) understand why people do or do not raise a concern about registrants of professional regulators, (3) understand the types of information available to people who are interested in raising a concern with a regulator, (4) explore the experiences of people who raise a concern with a regulator and those whose case is closed before a Fitness to Practise hearing, (5) explore the experiences of people who are required to be witnesses at a Fitness to Practise heading, and (6) describe the ways in which regulators can improve the Fitness to Practise process based on research findings.
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Lihat disini: Statement of Participation: WTH_1_statement
Free course: Making sense of ourselves (4 hours study, Level 2: Intermediate)
This free course, Making sense of ourselves, introduces you to well-known psychological topics by asking and answering everyday questions, such as Why don’t we like one another? Why would I hang around with you? Do you see what I see? What’s the point of childhood? You’ll learn how psychologists can go about addressing these questions using different research tools and approaches.
Course Learning Outcomes:
After studying this course, you should be able to: (1) explain some of the key aspects of prejudice and how and why they are important, (2) describe basic elements in the study of the psychology of personal relationships such as love and friendship, (3) understand how visual illusions are used to explore the visual system and how psychologists research vision, and (4) understand the role of theory of mind in researching child development.
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Lihat disini: Statement of Participation: making_sense_of_ourselves_printable
Free course: Training for endurance in sport and fitness (5 hours study, Level 2: Intermediate)
In this free course you will explore an important aspect of strength and conditioning which refers to the physical preparation of athletes: endurance. You will look at the physiological factors that underpin endurance and assess how endurance can be developed relative to performance in a range of sports.
Course Learning Outcomes:
After studying this course, you should be able to: (1) explain what is meant by the concept of endurance, (2) understand the physiological principles that underpin endurance, (3) apply a range of techniques for endurance in practice, and (4) assess which training methods are most suitable for performance in different sports.
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Lihat disini: Statement of Participation: E236_1_statement
Free course: Training for speed and power in sport and fitness (5 hours study, Level 2: Intermediate)
In this free course you will explore two aspects of strength and conditioning in sport and fitness: speed and power. Strength and conditioning is the physical preparation of athletes and in this course you will explore the physiology of speed before looking at training methods to develop speed. You will also look at power which is a concept closely related to speed.
Course Learning Outcomes:
After studying this course, you should be able to: (1) explain what is meant by the concepts of speed and power, (2) understand the physiological principles that underpin speed and power, and (3) apply a range of training techniques for speed and power in practice.
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Lihat disini: Statement of Participation: E236_2_statement
Free course: Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study (6 hours study, Level 2: Intermediate)
In this free course, doping (performance enhancing drugs, or PEDs) is used as an example of how contemporary issues in sport might be studied. Doping is used to illustrate how you can think about the debates involved in an issue and this will help you develop appropriate skills to discuss other contemporary issues in sport.
This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course E315 Contemporary sport and exercise issues.
Course Learning Outcomes:
After studying this course, you should be able to: (1) assess how the contrast between media sources and published academic research on doping may illustrate some of the topics and arguments that make up a contemporary issue, (2) identify how contemporary issues, such as doping, often benefit from a little social context and/or background history to help explain the present day, (3) describe how the framing, arguments made and overall evaluation of a contemporary issue benefit from a critical approach to reading and viewing material.
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Lihat disini: Statement of Participation: doping__a_contemporary_sports_issue_case_study_printable
Demikian sedikit catatan dari penulis sebagai pengingat kegiatan yang telah diikuti. Insya Allah, pada kesempatan lain, penulis akan mengulas konten daripada keenam Free Courses “Health, Sports, and Psychology” OpenLearn the Open University tersebut diatas. Semoga bermanfaat adanya. Barakallahu fiikum. (*)
Minasatene-Pangkep, 23 September 2025
(* Muhammad Farid Wajdi, Guru/Pengasuh Ponpes Modern Putri IMMIM Minasatene-Pangkep, Sulsel.
