Skills Review was an online tool for personal development planning
30-June-2005
Looking over our referrer logs for the KNowNet site, I noticed the other day that we still get hits from people searching for the Skills Review program. My apologies to those who may have sought without finding: you can try out an online version of Skills Review on our old website (you cannot save your answers in this version, so should print the reports before closing the browser window). We have also converted the Skills review application into a Plone content type so that it can be shared as a saved-answer application, but have never released this as a finished product. Contact me (at my i-name =Mike.Malloch) if you want to know more about the Plone version.
I've spoken with Alan Brown, who created the wonderful questions-set for Skills Review, and he's agreed to participate in writing a 'review of the review', which will be appearing in various blogs over the next few weeks ( any new content will be linked-to from this weblog entry as it is posted, so watch this space ). I hope that we can develop a plan for taking Skills Review on to the next stage.
In the years since Skills Review was created there has been a growing 'buzz' about personal-development-planning (pdp) tools and - especially in the past year or so - e-Portfolios for developing and sharing personal development plans and skills profiles. Skills Review was a small but very good example of a pdp tool, and deserves to be remembered, learned from and built upon. KnowNet has many plans for extending knotes to help people to create, maintain and share e-Portfolios and social-software 'presences'; I hope that personal skills reflection and planning applications like Skills Review will fit nicely into that upcoming work.
The Skills Review Program was originally developed as a skills self-assessment tool for employees in small businesses, based on questionnaire content development by Alan Brown of the University of Warwick. KnowNet collaborated with Alan and the University of East London in 2001 to produce an online version which proved popular and usable. Alan's questions were so compelling that we could not get people away fromn the application once they had started it! Below are a few screenshots:
See the extended text for this entry (ie view the full entry) for more screenshots and content about Skills Review.
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