Tuesday 19 June 2012

Linking of Embedding Benefits Projects

The Embedding Benefits PotsPan project being led by Coleg Sir Gar on behalf of the Skills Academy Wales WBL partnership in South West Wales is being aligned with the work of the TEL-WFD project led by Cardiff Metropolitan University. There are clear synergies between the WBL management digitisation objectives of PotsPan and the exploitation of the WBL maturity toolkit planned by TEL-WFD. Swansea Metropolitan University is a partner in both projects and Prof Tony Toole, who will be project managing both contributions, will aim to maximise the benefits to both projects.

SMU will also be exploring digital pen and digital signature systems as part of their contribution. The intention is to move beyond the specific audit trail objective of digital pen usage required by the EU/WG funding system. The aim is to draw conclusions about the benefits of digital pen systems in the efficient management of documents in multi campus institutions and multi institutional collaborations. It is expected that this will be of interest to other collaborative groups across the community of practice.

WBL Website Development Planning Meeting

The CSG project team met today to discuss plans to develop the Skills Academy Wales website in preparation for the piloting of the SWANI project outcomes with partners in the Autumn of 2012. It was agreed that the website was substantially complete and fit for purpose. The main thing that needed to be done was to update all the web pages with operational and guidance information that would enable all users to navigate and use the resources in an intuitive way.

It was agreed that the initial work would be carried out by Tony Toole who would create mock-ups of all the site pages that contained outline information. These would then be shared with the WBL teams at both CSG and Pembrokeshire to refine the information they contained. Once agreed the information would be uploaded to the WBL site by Lewis Jones.

Caroline Peek at Coleg Sir Gar and Wendy Webber at Pembrokeshire College would be consulted throughout the development process to ensure that the system addressed all of their institutional WBL management and administration needs. PRP Training and the Prince's Trust would be similarly involved. It was agreed that Tony Toole would contact all partners to begin the consultation process.