The document discusses a project called SkillClouds which aims to provide students with information about their skills development. It details user experience testing where students responded positively to a tag cloud approach. It also describes plans to pilot the tool in the autumn term and to incorporate student-generated skills data. Finally, it discusses options for sources of skills data at the university, school, degree, and course levels.
5. Students’ ability to articulate their skills I think it’s quite hard to think about yourself in terms of your skills, especially when writing a CV and trying to sell yourself to employers– if someone asks what skills you’ve got - I don’t know! Like I’m friendly and can write an essay !
15. “ Woo! It knows things about me – I’m quite amazed !” “ This looks exciting – keywords [..] I can put in all those words you feel stupid for using like ‘team work’ but then you know [that] these are the words they are probably looking for” “ [It] gives me ideas of how I can assert skills better on a CV and mention things I wouldn’t have thought of – [I’d] use it more as a springboard than a copy and paste.” “ I think it’s really useful to have these initial headings and ways you can get across you have these skills and not sell yourself short [..] where it came up with all the synonyms of how to describe a skill I think that is really useful and something I would use as well”
19. How SkillClouds and Sussex Plus could be linked Jo writes a reflective piece on her webpage Can view a display of skills derived from SkillClouds skill database Leadership Team-work Interpersonal
The context for this work is that SkillClouds is a pilot project, funded by JISC The University will need to decide if it is a good idea to implement it for all UG students, and if so how this will be resourced. We wanted to start addressing these issues, to give some time for thought about it, and also so that your input can shape the pilot phase of the project. Background May 2007 - TQEF action plan item ‘build a skills database’ To address the issue of making it easier for students to understand the transferable skills they are acquiring as part of their degree courses, and how they can use these skills in their future careers. Issue - the INTERFACE to the database would be very important - how could we encourage students to make use of this database?
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