Course Design
Learning Methodology
SPO Academy employs Project-Based Learning (PBL) to ensure practical application of business concepts. Students work through real-world scenarios and challenges that mirror actual SPO operations using the Edify 4D Impact Leadership Framework.
Course Structure
The course is organised into 8 modules (000-700), each with lessons and one assignment. The full structure — every element and the student learning targets a student works through — is in the Module Reference.
Course content follows the Edify Business Planning Framework, taking the operator from understanding their changing environment (100), through the toolkit and their own essence (200-300), across the three biomes (400-600), to an assembled business playbook (700).
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion, students will be able to:
- Conduct comprehensive business audits using the Full Value Canvas methodology
- Develop compelling vision statements and value propositions aligned with IKIGAI principles
- Apply the 4D Impact Leadership Framework (Discover, Define, Design, Deploy, Review)
- Navigate VUCA and BANI environments with exponential thinking
- Analyze all three biomes (Internal, Market, External) for strategic decision-making
- Create sustainable business models tailored to stake pool operations
- Build comprehensive business plans using the Edify Business Planning Framework
- Implement scenario planning and risk management strategies
Assessment Methods
One assignment per module — eight in total, all live on the platform. They are applied rather than recall-based: each asks the operator to enact that module's learning on their own pool and produce the section of their business plan it enables, so the assignments accumulate into the Module 700 playbook rather than standing alone.
| Module | Assignment | What the learner produces |
|---|---|---|
| 000 | Programme Introduction | Their starting point: pool today, why they run it, what "working" would mean |
| 100 | Your Changing World | A disruption brief on their own operating conditions |
| 200 | Edify Full Value Audit | A first Full Value Audit — the baseline later modules revise |
| 300 | Your Finance Model | Essence, value model and finance model, with the through-line between them |
| 400 | Your Market Biome | The five propositions, written as claims defensible to a delegator |
| 500 | Your 360 Internal Audit | Commercial and relationship asset inventories, correcting the Module 200 baseline |
| 600 | Your External Biome | External forces, funding options, and the relationships they depend on |
| 700 | Your Business Playbook | The capstone: assembled plan, dashboard measures, a scenario test, next steps |
Each is deliberately short — roughly fifteen to thirty minutes, structured as tables and one-line answers, with the capstone assembled from work already done. An assessment that does not get completed evidences nothing.
Coverage: all 39 student learning targets across the eight modules are evidenced by a module assignment. The mapping is generated from the assignment files against the payload sent to Andamio, so it cannot drift from what is live.
Learners submit their answers as assignment evidence in Andamio, where it is hashed for on-chain verification and reviewed before credentials can be claimed.