Health and PE Innovation: Incorporating Technology into Your Curriculum

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2 Units
Online Self-Paced

Course Description

Boost Your Health and PE Teaching Using Today's Technology

This course provides health and physical education teachers with the knowledge and resources they need to incorporate technology into their programs. Infusing technology in health and physical education can help educators increase student engagement, enhance their instructional practices, and assess student learning. In this digital age, it is important to use technology tools, applications, and resources that are widely available to improve the learning experience for 21st Century learners.

Course Details

Number of Units: 2.0 graduate level extension credit(s) in semester hours

Who Should Attend: This course provides continuing education for those that teach or will teach health and/or physical education in the K-12 setting.

Course Materials:  No textbook required.  All materials are provided within the online course.

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Course Options

Course Date Units Price
EDU-X787P – 012 Start now, you have 180 days to complete this course once enrolled 2 $317

Health and PE Innovation: Incorporating Technology into Your Curriculum

Start now, you have 180 days to complete this course once enrolled
2
$317
Online Self-Paced
Gregory Mott

Once you have enrolled in your course, log in to your account to access the course Welcome Letter, which includes directions on how to access the Online Orientation and your online course.

NOTE: This section (012) is specifically for the General public. If you are a USD Athletics Department student, have a sandiego.edu email address and have been approved to take this course please enroll into section 013 for Spring 2026 or 014 for Summer 2026.

What You Will Learn

  • Explain the benefits of incorporating technology into one’s health and physical education curriculum
  • Identify technology tools, applications, and resources for health and physical education that can be used to engage learners, enhance instruction, and assess learning
  • Create technology-based lesson plans for health and physical education
  • Design technology-based assignments and assessments for health and physical education
  • Utilize Google Classroom to create working health and physical education classes

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Online fixed-date courses are delivered virtually but follow a predetermined schedule, requiring students to complete assignments, participate in discussions, and take assessments by specific deadlines—much like a traditional classroom. The key difference is that while traditional courses are conducted in person at set times and locations, online fixed-date courses allow students to engage remotely, offering more flexibility in where they learn while preserving structure and accountability through fixed timelines.  (Note: Any scheduled Zoom sessions will be outlined on the class schedule.)  These courses have fixed start and finish dates, but as an online student you will have 24/7 online access to your classroom assignments, syllabus and course resources.  Instructor feedback is shared along with the graded assignments.

How is the learning structured? Each online fixed-date course is asynchronous, meaning that you can work on your assignments anytime, although you are required to complete the assignments by specific dates. The course is designed with learning modules where all of the content is grouped into weekly assignments. Each module covers one or more topics. Within each of the learning modules, you can expect the following components:

• Module introduction that outlines what you can expect to learn in the module.

• Required readings (textbook, articles, journals, etc.) and presentations (audio and/or video).

• Assignments with due dates (which may include: written assignments, journal entries, research, blogs, etc.) based on the readings and presentations.

• Discussion forum where you answer prompts from the instructor and interact with your classmates.

• Module conclusion to review the topics and what you should have learned.

Typically, there is a final project, paper, or exam due in the last module that culminates all of the topics covered in each of the learning modules. You’ll find that the design of the learning modules has a rhythm to help you manage your time in the course.

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