Continuing and Professional Education Centre. Tuesday, September 1, 2020 — From July 20th to August 14th, 2020, The UWI Faculty of Sport through the Open Campus Academy of Sport developed and successfully delivered an online Sport Broadcasting training workshop to fourteen (14) sporting professionals across the region.

The four week, twenty hour long training
was facilitated by renowned experts within the sporting discipline of
cricket – Alan Wilkins, former Cricketer and internationally
renowned Sports Broadcaster, as well as Daren Ganga, former West
Indies Captain, Cricket Broadcaster, now Project Officer within The
UWI Faculty of Sport. The training attracted cricketers, sport
captains and aspiring broadcasters from across the West Indies. Each
participant was awarded a UWI Open Campus Certificate of
Participation with two Continuing Education Units (CEUs). CEUs are an
internationally recognized system of merit for persons pursuing
Continuing and Professional Education.

The Sport Broadcasting Training Workshop
content was developed with the intent to instil in participants an
appreciation for the profile and demands of sport consumers as well
as knowledge of and practice in sport broadcasting techniques. The
content aimed to provide the trainees with the competence to
consistently offer polished, accurate, relevant and exciting
broadcast of major games to sport lovers in the region, Caribbean
diaspora and the world.

Participants engaged in discussions
centred on topics including, among others, sport broadcast ethics and
international standards, techniques of sport broadcasting to
educating and entertaining diverse patrons through well-researched,
exciting and culturally relevant commentary, producing polished,
accurate, professional and engaging sport broadcasts, and critiquing
sport commentaries by adopting and adapting promising sport
commentary practices.

In their responses to the Workshop
Evaluation Survey, issued by the Open Campus, the participants
expressed their overwhelming appreciation for the content, the
delivery of the training and their experience.

One participant shared: “The
fact that we had two highly recognized facilitators conducting the
workshop made it highly credible.”

Another
participant shared:
“The
most valuable aspect about the workshop was having to produce actual
varied broadcast content, inclusive of interviews and a live
commentary piece.”

The training of these sporting
professionals in the area of broadcasting is the first of its kind
offered by The UWI Faculty of Sport via the Open Campus Academy of
Sport. If persons are interested in learning more about other sport
related initiatives and upcoming training offered by The UWI Faculty
of Sport and the Open Campus Academy of Sport, please visit
https://uwi.edu/sport/prospective-students.

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