Study Guide

Objective

Student

- Can define the physiological effects of sleep
- Recognise the importance of sleep and recovery as part of well-being and health
- Recognises the characteristics of good sleep and can explain the stages of the sleep
cycle
- Can identify the factors that influence recovery and what recovery involves
what is meant by recovery
- Understand the most common challenges related to sleep and recovery
- Use wellness technology to monitor sleep and recovery
- Can apply what they have learned about sleep and recovery to promote their own
wellbeing

Content

Content:

- Physiology of sleep
- The role of sleep and recovery in well-being and health
- Characteristics of sleep and stages of the sleep cycle
- Recovery and factors influencing it
- Challenges of sleep and recovery
- Wellbeing technology and sleep research
- Sleep, recovery and promoting personal well-being

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

The course is accepted when the student is able to recognise the importance of sleep and recovery as part of well-being and health. They are able to define the factors that influence recovery and what recovery means. In addition, the student will be aware of the most common challenges related to sleep and recovery and be able to use wellness technology to monitor sleep and recovery. At the end of the course, students will be able to apply what they have learned about sleep and recovery to their own wellbeing. The course assignments are returned within the agreed timeframe.

A course is failed if the student does not achieve most of the objectives set for the course or is unable to return the learning assignments within the agreed timeframe.