Centre for Academic Innovation and Teaching Excellence
Wordclouds can be a really useful tool for visualising themes within qualitative text datasets quickly and easily. In Higher Education, this approach can also be used to show key words within a text, to visualise student feedback, and to help those with a more visual learning style to engage. A quick search for ‘free Wordcloud […]
As DMU moves to a block delivery mode, knowledge checks are becoming increasingly important to ensure that we keep students on-track over each seven-week period. One mechanism that can be used to gauge understating is the Blackboard Test but does it always have to be about Multiple Choice Questions? There are a number of different […]
As we head into week 0 and the return of #stafftechtips, let’s look at some of the activities and support available to DMU staff as we start the new academic year. The Virtual Learning Environment Firstly, we have the block/module shell policy. This is designed to promote consistency of student experience and provide a point […]