Subjects and
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their clustering (i.e. areas of study
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Introduction
WIPII is proposing that the main navigation path for Future Students is
Subjects => Programmes => Courses
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As such, we undertook some analysis to identify what our subjects we currently offer and how well they suit this marketing or recruitment purpose.
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We also have a large number of publications subjects listed in our publications, which seem to be largely derived from the 130 course code prefaces mastered in Banner). Although the number is similar there are many strange anomalies and mismatches.
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Subjects, as currently used, appears a closer fit the teaching or academic need than to the marketing and recruitment one. Further, our core subject offering seems at odds with the mental model of most target users (i.e. Future Students).We We therefore decided to test this buy asking school students (as the largest source of Future Students) to gather these subjects in to like clusters or groups, This work has only just started but the preliminary results has identified the following:
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- (Paul to add preliminary findings if we have them in time)
Area of study
Our working term for these subject clusters is “areas of study” (they could also be though of as an area of interest, topic or domain). For example, if one grouped the cards "Classic performance", "Composition", "Jazz", "Music", "Music Studies", "Music Therapy" and "Performance Music" together the area of study could be named "Music". However, some people light have placed "Classical Studies in this group and placed "Composition" together with "Culture and Context (Design)" and named this group Art.
(Need to bridge over to Anne's talk/topic/demo)
Decisions
(Not sure if we need to ask for any specifically or whether discussion is all we really want. Chrissi?)We propose altering the main navigation flow to be:
Areas of study => Subjects (if necessary/required) => Programmes => Courses
Any user can, of course, search for a subject, programme or course and navigate straight to it. However, we intend to scaffold the main navigation route.
- Chrissi Dean (Unlicensed) Lets discuss in mid sprint 13, but before the group meets, so there is time to make any final changes.
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