Skillclouds

A tool for helping students and academics engage with skills.

The Skillclouds project started with the aim of exploring if using 'tag clouds' as an interface could help students engaging with the transferable skills they were developing at University. During the project's user centered design process students identified how they found it difficult discovering, articulating and engaging with the skills they had been acquiring. User experience techniques were used to let the students designed both the interface, the structure of information and the types of information they wanted, all of which you can download from here, and use yourself.

You can watch a short video on how students use Skillclouds on screencast.

Skillclouds has been adopted by the University of Sussex along with Sussex Plus to support graduates in understanding and communicating their skills.

You can try out Skillclouds for yourself on the Skillclouds demo page

Quotes on Skillclouds from Sussex Students :

"Very useful website which helps you identify the key skills you've developed during your degree, giving individual, personal examples."

"An easy to use, simple and clear website. Effective in displaying the range of skills necessary for CV's, enabling you to attach examples to these skills and realise the skills (and examples / experience) you may be lacking in."

"Skillclouds is a personalised utility which documents and describes skills acquired during your degree which can be transferred to the workplace. A CV and confidence boosting resource!"

"Skillclouds highlights what you are most skilled at and provides examples of how you can use them in the future."

For more information on the project's development and future please visit the Skillclouds project homepage at Sussex.

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Funded by JISC