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Andrea Gorra and Ollie Jones
Figure 8: Has constructing the wiki glossary helped learning?
Finally we asked the students’ opinion about their wiki glossary entries being used in the Operations
Management lectures. While the majority of students (59%) agreed with statement “I liked the tutor’s
use of student created definitions in subsequent lectures”, a small minority (18%) were less happy
with this (see Figure 9, below).
Figure 9: Students’ views on wiki glossary use in lectures
Some qualitative comments about the wiki use in lectures helped us to understand the students’
views further. Some positive comments were expressed as follows:
“Showed that the input from students mattered.”
“It made them easier to understand”
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