{"id":28127,"date":"2023-11-15T13:49:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T04:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/?p=28127"},"modified":"2023-11-15T17:06:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T08:06:17","slug":"new-edx-online-course-super-aged-japan-exploring-activity-health-and-place-will-start-on-december-5-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/news-en\/2023\/11\/15\/28127\/","title":{"rendered":"New edX online course: &#8221;Super-Aged Japan: Exploring Activity, Health, and Place&#8221; will start on December 5, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>A new edX course, \u201cSuper-Aged Japan: Exploring Activity, Health, and Place\u201d by Associate Professor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/w-rdb.waseda.jp\/html\/100001949_en.html\"><strong>Michael Annear<\/strong><\/a> (Graduate School of Sports Sciences), will launch on December 5<sup>th<\/sup>, 2023. Online registration is now open. Please register if you are interested.<\/h4>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-28127 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-full'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/news-en\/2023\/11\/15\/28127\/attachment\/edx_annear%e5%85%88%e7%94%9f-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"567\" height=\"307\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/11\/808d0fda964be038c19c96104a20ad48-1.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-28266\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-28266'>\n\t\t\t\tAssociate Professor Michael Annear\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/news-through-2023\/2023\/11\/15\/28122\/attachment\/edx_%e3%83%ad%e3%82%b4\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"567\" height=\"305\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/11\/a486823fdf2b1f66fad3180cb1ad67b1.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>[Course Abstract]<\/p>\n<p>Japan leads the world in population aging where one out of every five residents is now aged 65 years or older. Professor Michael Annear is an international expert in the area of healthy and active aging and shares research and insights on healthy life expectancy, physical activity, and place from urban Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The course will draw on insights from expert Japanese and international contributors in the areas of psychology, health sciences, sleep, epidemiology, rehabilitation and emergency medicine to shed light on how Japan is confronting the challenges of a super-aged society with specific case studies from Japan and other countries.<\/p>\n<p>[Syllabus]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Week 1: Introduction to Gerontological Concepts and Theory<br \/>\nWeek 2: Health Status and Aged Care in Japan<br \/>\nWeek 3: Active and Healthy Aging in Japan<br \/>\nWeek 4:\u00a0Aging in Place: Environments, Aging, and Activity<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In this course, Associate Professor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/w-rdb.waseda.jp\/html\/100001972_en.html\"><strong>Dai Sugimoto<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/w-rdb.waseda.jp\/html\/100001822_en.html\"><strong>Yuri Hosokawa<\/strong><\/a>, Professor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/w-rdb.waseda.jp\/html\/100001472_en.html\"><strong>Masaki Nishida<\/strong><\/a><strong>,<\/strong> and other university experts also make a contribution as guest speakers.<\/p>\n<p>Registration is now open on edX at the following URL.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edx.org\/learn\/science\/waseda-university-super-aged-japan-exploring-activity-health-and-place\"><strong>WasedaX: Super-Aged Japan: Exploring Activity, Health, and Place | edX<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28237 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/11\/9dadbe8d216271e86724dd652a704d01.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"276\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Faculty of Sport Sciences has previously delivered two online courses on edX.<br \/>\nWe are reissuing them (for free), so please check them out as well:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Sport Safety: A Guide to Preventing Sudden Death in Sport&#8221; by Associate Professor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/w-rdb.waseda.jp\/html\/100001822_en.html\"><strong>Yuri Hosokawa<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edx.org\/course\/waseda-sport-safety\">https:\/\/www.edx.org\/course\/waseda-sport-safety<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sports Injury Prevention&#8221; by Associate Professor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/w-rdb.waseda.jp\/html\/100001972_en.html\"><strong>Dai Sugimoto<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edx.org\/course\/sports-injury-prevention\">https:\/\/www.edx.org\/course\/sports-injury-prevention<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new edX course, \u201cSuper-Aged Japan: Exploring Activity, Health, and Place\u201d by Associate Professor\u00a0Michael Ann [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[103,95],"class_list":["post-28127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-en-hs","tag-topics-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28279,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28127\/revisions\/28279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}