SkillClouds presentation at ALT-C 2008 ..

We presented a short paper on the SkillClouds project at ALT-C 2008 in Leeds this week. The conference theme was "digital divide" and we tried to address this in our presentation by looking at skills from an institutional and an individual/student perspective. Full details at: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/skillclouds/publications.php?publication=altc2008

This paper drew on three main pieces of work from the project:

• our user centred design sessions with students (see http://www.sussex.ac.uk/skillclouds/pilot_stage.php#user_centred_design for a brief summary and a link to the full report)
• the card sorting activities and resulting analysis (see http://www.sussex.ac.uk/skillclouds/pilot_stage.php#card_sorting for further details)
• our early work on the prototype
  

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Skillclouds - a user journey

We have now added a user journey through skills to our Skillclouds Pilot Stage.

This user journey is based on the building of knowledge on top of what the user already knows, with stages acting to reinforce or reaffirm knowledge, and offering more in depth information if the user requests it.

Users can access parts at any stage, building up the tools to reach their own individual journey goal.

The next project stage details the 'interaction needs' of the user in the delivery of this information. We will be documenting wireframes, prototypes and a rapid development cycle of user testing the interface.