05 / ACADEMY ARCHITECTURE

Define what capability means.

Capability Architecture gives an Academy a structured language for capabilities, skills, proficiency, evidence, relationships and development — so learning and experience can be connected to what people can actually do.

CapabilitySkillsProficiencyEvidenceCurrency
Academy principle
Capability is the organising object.

A course can describe content. A capability architecture describes the ability the Academy is trying to develop, observe and evidence.

Capability architecture components

01

Capability Domains

Organise capability into coherent areas of practice.

02

Capabilities & Skills

Define the abilities and constituent skills that matter.

03

Relationships

Represent prerequisite, adjacent, transferable, complementary and role-specific relationships.

04

Proficiency Context

Describe what capability looks like at meaningful stages without reducing it to a universal score.

05

Evidence Model

Define what evidence can support a capability claim.

06

Currency

Account for recency, context and continued relevance.

From definition to evidence

DefineCapability
DecomposeSkills
ContextualisePractice
DemonstratePerformance
EvidenceProof
AssessDecision
RecogniseCredential

Evidence across the ecosystem

Capability evidence should not be trapped inside one learning activity.

01

LEARN Evidence

Assessments, demonstrations, knowledge application and learning artefacts.

02

BUILD Evidence

Projects, capstones, simulations, portfolios and supervised experiences.

03

OPPORTUNITIES Evidence

Work records, host feedback, project outcomes and professional contribution.

04

CREDENTIAL Evidence

Assessment decisions and verified achievement records.

05

External Evidence

Recognised evidence from outside the Academy where provenance can be established.

06

Reflection

Learner interpretation that remains distinguishable from verified fact.

Capability integrity

The architecture should distinguish a capability definition, a learner claim, an evidence item, an assessment decision and a credential. They are related, but they are not interchangeable.