A Mimas/Jisc project, blog: http://feskillswindow.jiscinvolve.org

1. Creating flexible paths to Jisc digital
resources for FE – progress update
FE Skills Window Project
mimas.ac.uk

2. Project vision: To provide
teaching practitioners within
the Further Education (FE)
Skills sector with simple,
flexible and easy to navigate
routes to Jisc digital content
that is directly relevant to their
curriculum, qualifications and
working practices.

3. Enhancing discoverability of
Jisc digital resources

4. The new FE Skills Window project, run by
How?
- Understanding the Jisc FE Skills offer
- Developing a Jorum Window onto FE Skills content
- Learning from successful services – e.g. those
services mapped to curriculum have very high
usage
- Developing tools based on user needs e.g. Moodle
plugins
- Complements the recent work done under the Jisc
FE Skills development and resources programme
- By asking the community what they need

5. Project Management – the team
Laura Skilton, FE Skills Window Project Manager
Lisa Charnock, Communications and User Research
Mark Power, FE Skills Window Project
Community Engagement Officer
Ben Ryan, Technical CoordinatorSusanne Boyle, FE Skills Window Project Director
Joy Hooper, short-term contract to focus on
content audit
Head of Projects at Jisc Collections with
responsibility for the FE Skills Window project
Petros Diveris, FE Skills Window Developer

6. Community engagement/user requirements
(Mark video)
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- Practitioners Group
- Online survey
-Outreach workshop events working with
Jisc RSCs (F2F and Online)
-Market research
- Comms e.g. project blog at
http://feskillswindow.jiscinvolve.org
-FE Skills focus

7. Market Research
mimas.ac.uk
- Working with Alchemy Research
Associates
- 40 qualitative interviews
- Use of digital resources for
learning and teaching
- What do they use, and why?
- Use of Jisc digital resources
- Perceptions, strengths,
weaknesses, barriers
- Responses to the concept of a
‘window’
- Reporting in August 2014

8. Jisc content and curriculum mapping
- Content audit and report
- Qualification and subject mapping
- Curriculum mapping – methodology?
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9. Technical Progress (Ben)
- Aggregation
- Metadata mapping
- Widgets and prototypes
- Next technical steps
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10. Project Management