Illustrative: tracers on the Lorenz attractor, a canonical coupled nonlinear system
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Subject experts author, teach and review courses in the discipline they know, to the Academy’s editorial standard.
01Instrument
Teach with the Academy
- 1ApplyName the discipline and your evidence
- 2Agree the scopeOutcomes, labs and assessed activities
- 3Author and reviewTo the editorial standard
- 4Open the courseWith its version and date
02Roles
Roles, where help is needed and the standard
Ways to take part
- AuthorWrite a course or a module in your discipline: outcomes, lessons, worked cases, labs and assessed activities.
- Teach a cohortGuide a cohort through a pathway: discussion, peer review and feedback on assessed work.
- ReviewCheck a course against the editorial standard and the evidence it cites, before it opens and when it is revised.
Disciplines waiting for courses
98 of 118 disciplines have no open course yet, and 95 courses are in development. Each faculty page lists its disciplines and the courses that count in each.
What every course follows
- Outcomes first, written so they can be assessed.
- Labs on real or openly licensed data, each with its source and date.
- Methods taught with their assumptions and limits; numbers only with their source.
- Bodies and standards named for orientation by name and link, never as an endorsement.
- Declarative, British spelling, no superlatives and no status words.
How courses are built: how learning works.
03How learning runs
How learning runs, as a process you can run
Select a scenario and press Play: course, pathway, practice, faculty, cells and record.
04Apply
How to apply
Use the application form, naming the discipline, the role you have in mind and evidence of your work in the field. The application is recorded with a reference. Taking part confers no title, appointment or authority to speak for the Academy.
05Questions
Questions, answers and key terms
Is study here free?
Yes. Every course and learning material of Risk Academy, led by the Nexus Consortium, is free to study, self-paced or with a cohort. Ordinary participation has no fee; paid work, internships and fellowships are separate arrangements.
What does completing a course give me?
A completion record: the course, its version, the date and what was assessed, private by default and shared by you. It stacks into discipline, department and programme achievements. A record states what was studied and assessed and does not certify competence; it is not a licence, a professional title or an employment status.
Where do the data and the places come from?
Every faculty teaches on a twin of a real place built from open data; each layer carries its provider, licence and date, and every result on the Academy states its source. Maps and figures are indicators for teaching, never an assessment of a place.
How do I take part beyond every course?
Form a competence cell of three to seven people, study a shared pathway, take a supervised assignment in the National Working Groups, or bring a cohort from your institution. For organisations.
Key terms
Term
Discipline
The unit of the Academy’s directory that a course counts in; each sits in a department of a faculty.
Term
Editorial standard
The Academy’s rules for depth, truth, voice and honesty that every course and chapter follows.
Term
Assessed activity
A quiz, lab task or assignment whose result counts toward completing a course.
ReportsContribute
Contribute evidence from this page.
Reports is the Consortium’s quarterly publication. What you know about this subject can become evidence, a case or a correction in the next edition, credited to you and published under CC BY 4.0 where it is your own work.
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Each faculty page lists its departments, disciplines and the courses that count in each.