Success Story BBL

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How blended learning is a success in basketball

The German Basketball Training Fund, consisting of easyCredit BBL, ProA, and ProB, has a clear goal: to promote youth development in Germany. To support member clubs in finding and developing young talent, the Training Fund has set up a support program. The core of the program involves supporting the youth coaches responsible for training and developing young coaches in Bundesliga clubs.

Project partner

If you want to improve the quality of your players, you also need extremely high-quality youth coaches. That's why we invest heavily in youth coach training. After four years, we haven't regretted choosing edubreak^® for a single day.

Jens Staudenmeyer

Head of Sports, easyCredit BBL

Blended learning trainer program at easyCredit BBL

The challenge

Design of a completely new training program with didactic and technological support from Ghostthinker
Nationwide distribution of participants in the junior coach training program
Design of a blended learning structure consisting of practical phases in the club and theory and coaching phases in online and face-to-face formats
Blended learning concept should lead to success patterns that will serve subsequent training cohorts
Peer-to-peer education: Focus on cross-course exchange and implementation of group and individual coaching
Design of a complementary training program to the classic association-based coach training program

The solution

Development of a blended learning concept in collaboration with the “Institut für Spielanalyse”
– Preparatory and follow-up online phases with support from specialist mentors.
– Self-organized online work closely linked to the everyday work of the coaches.
Combination of subject-specific (e.g., basic techniques, decision-making training, group tactics) and interdisciplinary offerings (e.g., learning and teaching, talent, leadership, personality).
Modules supervised by specialist mentors with extensive practical experience
Social video learning: video analysis at the heart of teaching, designed to promote active, reflective, and social learning
Technological and didactic basis: edubreak^®CAMPUS & edubreak^®COMMUNTIY

With blended learning, we don't want to remove trainers from their system, but rather provide them with additional training. Online training gives us the opportunity to dive right into the topic during face-to-face sessions. The key is the online phases for preparation and the integration of video training into daily training work. Afterwards, the only way to retain content is through structured follow-up of the face-to-face content on the online campus.

Dr. Karsten Görsdorf

Head of the Institut für Match Analysis