MUSE: Teaching Kit

This repository contains the teaching material developed by Imperial College London for the course "MUSE: Agent-based energy systems modelling" developed under the Climate Compatible Growth project.

The course is published on Open Learn Create and is free to learners.

The course material is licensed under a Creative Commons BY 4.0 License. This license allows you to use, remix and publish the course material as long as you give correct attribution. Please use the following citation:

Alexander J. M. Kell, Sara Giarola, Adam Hawkes. (2022, August 6). ClimateCompatibleGrowth/muse_teaching_kit: Initial release of lecture blocks. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5166742

Creating the teaching material

The teaching material is rendered to HTML using a bash script. A key dependency is pandoc, which is used to convert the markdown lecture block files into HTML.

1. To generate the HTML files in the _build folder, run:

    bash scripts/create_html.sh
   

2. To create a SCORM package for each of the lecture blocks, you'll need the Python package scorm_package. Then run the deployment script::

    bash scripts/deploy.sh
   

   This creates a zip archive for each lecture e.g. for lecture17 from the material in folder lecture_17. Each zip files contains the following special files for a SCORM package:

    adlcp_rootv1p2.xsd
    ims_xml.xsd
    imscp_rootv1p1p2.xsd
    imsmanifest.xml
    imsmd_rootv1p2p1.xsd
    res  # This contains the lecture blocks and assets (image files)
   

Common formatting issues

References

• Ensure that reference authors are formatted as follows:

    Joe Bloggs and Tracy Ervin Smith
    Bloggs, J. and Smith, T.~E.
  

Images

• SCORM packages seem to be very sensitive to the case of filenames. Always use lower-case for file endings and ensure that filenames referenced in the lectures exactly match the filename. For example assets/Figure_1.1.1.PNG will not be linked if ![](assets/Figure_1.1.1.png) is used to embed the image.
• Images should be of a good enough resolution to be viewed across 100% width of the text column. Use ![](assets/Figure_1.1.1.png){width=100%} to adjust this.