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Course Description

This final course in the Esports Coaching Mastery Certificate will help you take everything you’ve learned throughout the program and synthesize it into your own coaching style. You’ll build an actual team or group to coach to see how your coaching process works in the real world and learn how to adjust that process to best work with your team. By the end of this course, you’ll have a final project that demonstrates the skills and knowledge you gained throughout the courses in this mastery certificate program.

Is This Course For You?

This course was designed for educators, coaches, community leaders, and esports enthusiasts with at least a high school reading and writing level and an interest in esports. To take this course, you need to have completed the other five courses in the Esports Coaching Mastery Certificate, and once you have completed your capstone project you will earn your mastery certificate.

What You’ll Learn

This capstone course was designed to help you bring together all of the ideas and concepts you have learned throughout the Esports Coaching Mastery Certificate program to see how you can use all of your new skills and knowledge in the real world. You’ll learn how to synthesize what you’ve learned throughout the program to showcase your expertise in esports. You’ll use your course projects to develop a comprehensive coaching program for your chosen platform, including coaching strategies, player development plans, and performance evaluation methodologies. You’ll also put your coaching program into practice by creating a real esports team or group of players and monitor their progress while adjusting and fine tuning your coaching process.

How You’ll Learn

This four week course is fully online with synchronous sessions that include lectures, time for curriculum development, practical implementation, and more. Throughout the course, you’ll work towards creating your final capstone project, which will consist of a detailed portfolio that includes the coaching program, coaching logs, player assessments, and any other relevant documentation. You’ll also document the coaching journey, challenges faced, and strategies employed for improvement.

For your final presentation, you will share a written document or video presentation that showcases what you’ve learned throughout the mastery certificate program. This will include findings and lessons learned with peers and evaluators while demonstrating a practical coaching coaching program, including lab setup with AV technology player, curriculum, and team performance and competition. You will also do a self evaluation of your esports and coaching knowledge as well as peer evaluations.

Assessment and Evaluation Criteria

Your project will be assessed based on the following criteria:

  • Ability to develop and execute an applied coaching project
  • Demonstrated understanding of player and team performance and management
  • Content, presentation, thoroughness, and comprehension of Capstone project
  • Comprehensive understanding of the esports industry, from educational environments to large tournaments, including game play and event management
  • Demonstrated coaching skills and best practices
  • Ability to utilize esports across many opportunities, including competitive play, immersive learning, and workforce development

Benefits of Completing Your Capstone

The Capstone Project not only validates your knowledge and skills but also serves as a valuable resource for the esports-coaching community, offering insights and best practices for esports coaching. It represents a significant milestone in your journey toward becoming a certified esports coach.

Once you’ve completed your Esports Coaching Capstone Project, you will have:

  • Gained practical coaching experience with a unique focus on esports.
  • Developed a comprehensive esports coaching program.
  • Developed and/or enhanced an array of coaching skills.
  • Applied real-life coaching challenges to the esports coaching field.
  • Demonstrated your readiness to become certified-esports coaches.

Applies Towards the Following Certificates

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