The BASKIN WEB ACADEMY is an online training platform (e-learning) designed to coordinate and manage Baskin courses, exploiting the potential of new technologies. It is able to support articulated training programmes, making available to students and professionals numerous multimedia pedagogical resources, equipped with various methodological tools to facilitate, dynamize and personalize learning, both autonomously and collaboratively with other students.
NB: The Baskin Association does not in any way believe that new technologies can replace the quality of interpersonal relationships that take place in direct presence. Nor does it believe that serious training at Baskin can only be achieved through digital tools.
However, Baskin – and the relationships it promotes – can benefit from an ingenious, conscious and responsible use of new technologies by more easily coordinating training programmes through a single digital platform.
Of course, only a part of the contents – essentially the theoretical ones – can be directly tackled with this online tool by the individual courses (maybe even from home), as it will always remain indispensable to carry out a large part of training in the field, in direct presence with the various people involved and often in a real context. Therefore, in addition to the online training contents, there will remain several other important moments, such as training meetings in the gym, workshops, meetings and thematic discussions, and of course internships.
The general advantages of the web academy are summarised in the following aspects:
- Using digital tools makes it easy to make available to everyone a wealth of knowledge and experience that represents an indispensable part of training, though not all of it.
- The dematerialization makes it possible to reach many people on different territories, greatly optimising logistical resources, budget and time both by the organisers and by the trainees.
- Having a common tool can facilitate the cohesion of the movement and a certain uniformity of training over a vast and fragmented territory.
- New technologies can facilitate the accessibility of communication, allowing to promote the self-representation of people with disabilities as potential active promoters of Baskin and inclusive culture.
Baskin continues to enjoy great success throughout Italy and in other countries (increasingly numerous), both in school networks and in the context of numerous sports clubs.
By intercepting a widespread desire and responding to a real need, both on the part of those who practice and those who offer the activity, this local pedagogical innovation that emerged at the dawn of the 2000s has become an increasingly widespread social innovation, capable of creating significant (re)generative effects in the social fabric of multiple territories.
Now, the wave of enthusiasm that spreads towards Baskin – in the areas of school, sport, disability and even the academic world – does not stop at national borders either, as the reception of this “sport designed for all” is also positive in France, Spain, Greece, Luxembourg and Germany.
Thanks to this considerable diffusion, a phase of institutionalisation of this new proposal for inclusive sport has recently begun.
Starting from the observation of this evolution (cultural, social and institutional), there is the need to have a tool to facilitate the training of the various actors interested in the Baskin phenomenon, so that this activity, together with the ethical-cultural foundations that inspire it and the methodological principles that govern it, can spread on a good basis.
The idea was therefore to implement a digital platform that would facilitate the development of this training academy dedicated centrally to Baskin, and connected more generally to inclusive sport and inclusive culture.
Aimed at teachers, educators, coaches, referees, as well as players, pupils and families, the platform aims to promote the management of this multimedia centre for lifelong learning, with multiple e-learning features (video-conferences, webinars, virtual classes, meetings, discussion forums, etc.).
So here is the BASKIN ACADEMY!!!
PURPOSE
The aim behind this project is the “glocalisation” of Baskin (a concept that reconciles the terms “global” and “local”). More precisely, of course:
- to consolidate the Baskin development process on a global scale (national and international) maintaining a strong overall cohesion and ensuring a harmonious and controlled expansion of this rapid growth dynamic
- to invest in training as a strategic link to standardize the quality standards related to the skills of all those involved in the development of Baskin activities in any territory, aiming to increase the quality of the experience lived by the entire Baskin community, thanks to the structuring and formalization of the training procedures of the various actors
- to conceive training as an organisational strategy suitable for structuring a harmonious global development, but also as an ethical-cultural strategy suitable for not sacrificing on the altar of this “globalisation” of Baskin the relational values of the activity which are deeply anchored in the local scale; thus avoiding sacrificing the diversity of the experiences matured in the respective territories, and the richness of the dynamics of active appropriation by the individual actors
- to allow the accessibility of training to a plurality of people comparable to the one present on the Baskin playing field, in order to favour the mechanism of “self-representation” of people with disabilities who must also have access to positions of responsibility (coaches, trainers, managers) and not only to the target audience, making a further and decisive step forward in the development of the inclusive culture.
GENERAL OBJECTIVES
- To design and implement a WEB platform for distance learning;
- To design, implement and monitor various training programmes aimed at the different actors of the Baskin community, primarily teachers, primary and secondary school teachers, coaches, educators, referees and referees, but also players, families and spectators.
ADVANTAGES FOR LEANERS (TRAINEES)
The online formula, which can be used by any personal device (computer, tablet or smartphone), can guarantee participants opportunities for interaction and comparison similar to those of a classroom lecturer, even if screen mediation certainly implies specific features. But the dematerialised nature of the training offers participants, above all, considerable advantages of freedom, accessibility and personalisation. They can be summarised as follows:
- cost advantages, as the course venue can easily be at home, for example, avoiding the individual participant having to incur high extra costs for travel, board and lodging;
- advantages in terms of time management, since the moments of availability required for one’s own training are completely self-managed, avoiding the individual participant having to endure the rigid imposition of a course schedule in which dates and times are lived as pre-established obligations (in a uniform way for all) from which one cannot disengage oneself.
ADVANTAGES FOR THE ORGANISERS
While accessibility, freedom and customisation are the main advantages for those who use the Web academy as trainees, there are also several interesting features for those who implement this training device, and this for two essential reasons again:
- advantages in terms of global cohesion of the training plan (national and international), since the online platform becomes the only communication tool shared by all, a common matrix to which each trainee and each local trainer refers, thus avoiding an excessive lack of homogeneity or fragmentation between the various local territories implementing training initiatives on the same product or service
- cost advantages, since the dematerialization of training allows to optimize budgets and resources in a radical way thanks to an easy reproducibility in time and space of the same courses, from one month to another (or from one year to another) and from one region to another.