Moving word cloud from visual towards text analysis to endow eLearning

A picture is worth a thousand words. Ten words in the form of a picture can be worth ten thousand. Word clouds are a useful workplace tool for summarizing information. This powerful tool can be incorporated into education as a learning tool to create marvels. Small focus groups were used to obtain student feedback; I contend that it can also be used in assessments. If this enjoyable, fun tool used only for design analysis is extended to text analysis it can brand wonders. With betterment in multi cloud representation its impact in eLearning and research can be all-encompassing.

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