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Learn Physical Education online: university courses, full YouTube courses, and courses with free certificates, from the IITs, MIT, Harvard, Google, Microsoft and more.
MIT OpenCourseWare
The purpose of this class is to tell you something about our Tech Dinghy and how to sail it. This OCW site is arranged as a series of skills, explained both with lecture notes and videos. Please do not think of these skill checks as tests, but instead, as measures of your understanding of our sport…
MIT OpenCourseWare
This 12 session course is designed for the beginning or novice archer and uses recurve indoor target bows and equipment. The purpose of the course is to introduce students to the basic techniques of indoor target archery emphasizing the care and use of equipment, range safety, stance and shooting t…
MIT OpenCourseWare
This 12 session course is designed for the beginning or novice weight lifter, or for those who have experience lifting but lack proper instruction. We will provide an understanding of the biomechanics involved, muscles used for a given exercise, and program development.
MIT OpenCourseWare
For all of the bodies attached to the many great minds that walk the Institute’s halls, in the work that goes on at MIT the body is present as an object of study, but is all but unrecognized as an important dimension of our intelligence and experience. Yet the body is the basis of our experience in…
MIT OpenCourseWare
The sensing, thinking, moving body is the basis of our experience in the world; it is the very foundation on which cognitive intelligence is built. Physical Intelligence, then, is the inherent ability of the human organism to function in extraordinary accord with its physical environment. This clas…
MIT OpenCourseWare
This course provides an exciting, eye-opening, and thoroughly useful inquiry into what it takes to live an extraordinary life, on your own terms. The instructors address what it takes to succeed, to be proud of your life, and to be happy in it. Participants tackle career satisfaction, money, body,…
MIT OpenCourseWare
This course is intended to provide students with the fundamentals of fencing, including footwork, bladework, bouting and refereeing. It will allow students to develop the ability to analyze a fencing bout, and promotes creativity in applying acquired skills in a fencing bout.
MIT OpenCourseWare
This course will thoroughly educate the successful student with the knowledge and skills necessary to be a certified beginning SCUBA diver. The prerequisite for the course is passing the MIT SCUBA swim test and demonstrating a “comfort level” in the water. At the end of the class, students will att…
MIT OpenCourseWare
The goals of this instructional course are to get you started in this wonderful sport and to give you a working knowledge of tennis. It should help you to understand the basics of a sport and how to perform these basics. Most of the course will focus on the basic stroke techniques. Variation to tho…
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Explore the structure and function of bones, joints, and musclesin the human body. This course bridges the gap between the basic and clinical science studies, with several references to common pathologies that may affect the locomotor system.
Waseda University
Learn how to make sports safer through evidence-based, practical approach.
Alison
Updated for 2025 this online physical education course will give you an introduction to outdoor adventure activities and cover their main characteristics, types, and impact on the environment. You will learn what motivates people to go on an adventure, look at examples of adventure, and study adven…
Alison
This free online course on Physical Education begins by helping you to identify basic muscle physiology and its interior components. You will study the motor unit, the regulation of muscular force, and the firing pattern of muscles in the body. Then, you will learn about the major groups of muscles…
Alison
A coach is someone who helps people improve in the way they wish to improve and go in the direction they want to go. This free online course on Coaching Techniques and Styles will first discuss the role of a coach in improving performance as well as the fundamental attributes and skills of a good c…
