Alberta Schools' Athletic Association Learning Centre

The ASAA is proud to announce that the the Safety Guidelines course is now available, and with funding support from the Public Health Agency of Canada, is FREE for a limited time!

This great course is based off of the Safety Guidelines for Interschool Athletics and Safety Guidelines for Physical Activity documents that are available from the LRC and found in many of your schools already. Full PDFs of the documents are available for free online at www.ACICR.ca.

Be sure to sign up for the course now, because it's only free for a limited time. Any questions about the course can be directed to Mike Steele - michael@asaa.ca.

Athletic Injury Management is a great new course designed to prepare coaches for how to deal with injuries that occur as a result of participation in school sport and elsewhere. This great course just launched with support from the Sport Medicine Council of Alberta and includes 9 units of content. And as with all forthcoming courses, it is 100% compatible with all of your mobile devices, including iPad and iPhone!

Click on the courses tab to learn more about the course and sign up to take it!

Win an Apple iPad just by completing the free online tobacco course!

We all know tobacco is bad for us? Why though? And knowing this, why do people keep using it? These are just some of the questions that the free online course, Be the Norm: Choose to be Tobacco Free will try to answer for students and student athletes. Better yet, every student who completes the course will have their name entered into a draw for one of two Apple iPads!

All you have to do is sign up at www.ASAAWeCoach.ca, add the free Tobacco course to your profile, and make your way through the course. It takes about an hour and it's as easy as that!

It is with great excitement that we can announce all future courses will be available on iPad's, iPhones, or any other mobile device. Current limitations to most tablets and smartphones prevent courses built in Flash (including our coach education courses) from running on those devices. But from this point on, all future courses, including the upcoming Athletic Injury Management and Be The Norm: Choose to be Tobacco Free courses, will be developed in what is called HTML5 and jQuery. User's will not see any noticeable differences in how the courses are presented, but will be able to access their courses on ALL their devices.

If you have any questions about device compatibility with our courses, feel free to contact  michael@asaa.ca.

-The ASAAWeCoach Team

Thanks to a partnership with the Alberta Sport, Recreation, Parks, and Wildlife Foundation (ASRPWF), 50 rebates worth $50 each are being made available to Alberta coaches who complete the Fundamentals of Coaching course on www.ASAAWeCoach.ca. In order to receive the rebate you must first purchase the course online, and then fill out the application form (found by clicking here). You will be issued the rebate once you have completed the course.  

Note: at this time the rebate is limited to 50 coaches, with a maximum of 2 per school in Alberta only. If uptake is good, we will revisit this in the new year.

If this is something that interests you or any coaches in your school, we implore you to act fast, as we expect that these rebates will be snatched up quickly.

If you would like to take advantage of this, just purchase a course and fill out the form above. If you submit the form before you have completed the course, you will be asked to notify us when you have completed the course in order to issue your rebate.

If you have any questions you can direct them to michael@asaa.ca

Through a partnership with the NFHS the FREE course, Concussions in Sport: What You Need to Know, is now available to Albertans. Clicking on the link on this site will take you to the NFHSLearn.com website where you will be able to register for and take the free Concusssions in Sport course. The ASAA will have the ability to track course completions for Alberta coaches and individuals taking the concussion course.

We implore you to take advantage of this and take the short course - the information found within is invaluable.

Welcome to the ASAA We Coach Learning Centre - where you can access high-quality educational material for coaches. After almost three years of discussion, planning, grant writing and work by the ASAA staff, Executive and others, we are excited to announce the site is now live!

While initially intended for a school coach audience, it has become clear that the courses we have developed are equally applicable to the community and club coach – at all levels not only in Alberta, but everywhere. Initially there are three courses and this will expand to 6 by the end of 2011 (two will be free!) and additional growth beyond that. We are grateful to Rural Alberta Development Fund, Cenovus Energy and Alberta Health Services for their financial support

Feel free to explore the page. You can register by clicking the "Register" link in the top right corner of the page, and purchase courses by clicking on the "Courses" link in the toolbar.