TASH update meeting

Tuesday 16 December

Bart House Collaboratory

Three core elements to resource:

• Inner ring – helping users to develop academic literacy, personal and interpersonal skills, and reflective learning strategies;

• Interactive tasks – orientation case studies; expectations & skills audits; communication & re-presentation exercises;

• Outer ring – “rapid routes” signposting users to internal or external online and face-to-face skills development resources

Three main first-time user types

• Getting started – new students possibly directed to resource as part of induction exercise;

• Quick fix – existing staff or students with a particular problem to solve;

• Long term users – students looking to engage with resource in its entirety.

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Timeline - tips for the week?

Getting started

Search box

Interactive exercises

Your/other links

• Text confined to single screen (no scroll rule)

• Tri-partite structure: what, why, where next;

• User encouraged to make active choices;

BACK – FORWARD - HOME

Concertina dropdown menus:

UoS links (open access)

UoS links (closed access)

External links

“Look before you leap” warnings

Bagging, tagging and adding

• Academic skills framework;

• Delicious site

• Interactive exercises and specially commissioned TASH materials

Workshops

• Rapid routes and site structure

• Interactive exercises and site structure

• Piloting and embedding in academic and service departments, faculties etc.