The LTaPS team at Mimas provides services like Jorum and Re:Source with expertise in higher education, further education, and skills. They are launching a new project to provide further education and skills practitioners with easy access to relevant digital content from Jisc. The project aims to map content to curriculums and develop discovery tools to be integrated into virtual learning environments. The Hairdressing Training resource has seen growing usage since its launch, demonstrating the potential of curriculum-mapped open educational resources.

2. Learning, Teaching and
Professional Skills (LTaPS)
Susanne Boyle, Senior Manager (LTaPS) & Director of Jorum.
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3. Mimas –
Manchester Information and Associated Services
Will become part of Jisc from August 1 2014
LTaPS Team:
• provides Jorum and Re:Source service,
• has expertise in HE, FE and Skills,
• offers digital innovations including ebooks and
Augmented Reality (AR).
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4. Integrating the HE/FE Practitioner and
Student Journey
GCU Connect
The LTaPS vision:
Open sharing
Increased accessibility
Clearer signposting
Greater Integration
Wider collaborations &
partnerships
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FE & Skills
Project
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5. New FE and Skills project
To provide teaching practitioners within the Further Education (FE) and 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.
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6. FE and Skills project –
Why?
Jisc FE steer
Underused resources
What?
- Developing discovery tools based on needs e.g. VLE plugins
-Curriculum mapping
- Working with and advising other FE and Skills Services
How?
- Bringing together stakeholder/experts
- By asking the community what they need
- Learning from successful services – e.g. those services
mapped to curriculum have very high usage e.g. Hairdresser
Training resources
LTaPS involvement
-A Jorum Window for FE
-Curriculum mapping incorporated into Jorum
-Developing tools
-Community ideas!
...

7. Previous Success Stories-
“I promote this resource during skills sessions to our
Hairdressing staff and learners – the learners love
Hairdressing Training
it, especially the video aspect as they can play them on
their phones if required when practicing on
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friends/family. I have actually had a few learners come
back in to the library and ask me to remind them how to
-Over 30,000 average visitor a month
get back to this resource!” – Jean Sullivan, Campus
-Mapped to the NVQ
Librarian, Carmarthen College.
Page Views (Period: Quarter 3-4)
900000
Free and no
authentication
required
800000
700000
600000
Page Views
500000
400000
Free & required
Authentication
300000
200000
100000
Subscription &
Authentication
0
2006/7
2007/8
2008/9
2009/10
2010/11
2011/12
2012/13

8. Hairdressing Training
www.hairdressing.ac.uk
“Hairdressing Training is an integral part of our
teaching. It is used every lesson and the students love
it. We use the new videos the most - the Hairdressing
Moodle site, of which HT is a central component, is held
-Over 50,000 videos views a month
up around City College as the best Moodle site for
teachers”. Tutor at the Manchester College.
-Noting a year on year increase in You Tube views:
2500000
You Tube Views
2000000
1500000
1000000
500000
0
2010
2011
2012
Annual Data (November Collection )
-A model for future development
of FE Skills materials & OERs??

9. Hairdressing Training
The new mobile App
-Developed in collaboration with students
and tutors, with feedback throughout the
development
-Available in the Spring 2014 on Apple and
Android devices
- Images are current mock-ups
-Jisc are committed to developing &
sustaining innovations in HE & FE sectors
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10. Augmented Reality: Medicine, Pharmacy & Health Sciences
Augmented Reality enables primary sources to be explored in situ or
remotely with significant enrichment of 2D or 3D objects.
Building on the success of the Special Collections (SCARLET) project we are exploring
the application of AR in a number of nursing, pharmacy healthcare settings.
To support 3D object
recognition allowing layering
of anatomical recognition.
To support interactive learner
materials (Prescribing Skills ibooks)
Provide instructional
demonstrations e.g. hand washing;
cannula insertion, OSCE station
activities.
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11. Culture, Museums Exhibits & Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality (AR)
Offers great potential as a
means of enhancing user
experience in museums and
cultural centres.
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12. Jorum – What can we offer
Jorum is a strategic tool, supported nationally by Jisc, to enable
efficiencies across the Further and Higher Education sectors.
We can offer a bespoke Window or Subsite on to Jorum
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13. Thank for your attention.
Do you have any questions?
If you have some ideas for collaborative
working please contact me:
Susanne.boyle@manchester.ac.uk
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14. Meet the Team
Siobhan Burke, OER Services Manager
Educational Technologist: TBC
Ben Ryan, Jorum Technical Coordinator (Services)
Paul Madley, Developer
AnjaLeBlanc, Developer
Laura Shaw, FE Skills Project Manager
Louise Egan, Marketing and Communications
FE Skills Community Engagement Officer: TBC
FE Skills Developer- recruiting now
Matt Ramirez, Lead Augmented Reality (AR)Developer/ AR Project Manager
Gail Millin-Chalabi, Geodata Research & Development Officer (Museum AR & Visualisation)
LTaPS Vacancies
Developer 1: Exp. Web application developer with
experience in PHP.
Developer 2: Strong background in Java; experience in
DSpace desirable.
Further details contact Dr Ben Ryan,
email-benjamin.ryan@manchester.ac.uk
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