What turns an innovation project into a successful service?
Demand for a resource from users can often make or break the sustainability of a project. JISC Inform reviews feedback from students and lecturers using the popular Hairdressing Training resource, which is soon to be rolled out in Eastern Europe.
Teaching someone to cut and style hair without having a real person to practice on can be a challenge. But video, audio and online tasks are all part of the new language of college lecturing. The interactive resource Hairdressing Training, which started life as a JISC-funded project, is now one of Mimas’ most popular services, giving lecturers in hairdressing exemplary step-by-step guidance videos, self-evaluation tests, worksheets and guides to help them teach an expanding collection of hairdressing styles and techniques.
In the UK the service is also mapped to the NVQ Hairdressing curriculum. Hairdressing trainers can now find the resources they need to help students at every stage on Hairdressing Training.
But now the project is heading east – to make the online resources more widely available and improve skills and training opportunities for hairdressers in Eastern Europe. New partners in Bulgaria, Romania and Slovakia see these resources as essential for trainee hairdressers and teachers and want to develop e-learning, open and distance learning in their respective countries –so the European Union’s Lifelong Learning Programme is supporting the roll-out of the resource more widely.
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Find out why people find Hairdressing Training so helpful
The survey asked, “How would your work or study be affected if Hairdressing Training wasn’t available anymore?”
“I demonstrate Hairdressing Training at student inductions to show the range of online resources available.” Lecturer 
I am introducing the website to all of my students, to help their learning become more interactive. I also use it to back up practical sessions whilst in the hairdressing salon. Lecturer
It really helps seeing a style cut in college then being able to go over it when I am at home great stuff! Student
Your videos are fantastic some of the best on YouTube and Ive watched a lot! So easy to follow and understand. You make it so simple. Please keep up the good work! YouTube viewer
Im starting college to do hairdressing soon and I am going to be shampooing and conditioning. I found this clip very useful because it has given me a good idea of how to wash hair and also how to do the head massages thank you. Prospective student, from YouTube
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