NVivo
User Communities page now available
The Educational Technology Department has created user communities, as well as the Educational Technology Collective, to provide a place to speak about various platforms that can help improve instructors and students’ experiences. All of the information regarding EdTech’s user communities (what they discuss, when they meet, the topics of the next meetings, and more) is now
Announcement: Training Schedules Now Available
We have just created a schedule page for our educational technology training sessions! Choose “Training” on the navigation bar and explore the various classes relevant to digital learning. Classes topics include: WordPress, Kaltura/MyMedia, Echo360, Blackboard, TurningPoint, NVivo, and many more.
Announcement: Training Schedules Now Available
We have just created a schedule page for our educational technology training sessions! Choose “Training” on the navigation bar and explore the various classes relevant to digital learning. Class topics include: WordPress, Kaltura/MyMedia, Echo360, Blackboard, TurningPoint, NVivo, and many more.
NVivo Community of Practice now meeting
Following up our survey last spring, we now have a group for BU NVivo users from around campus to meet and get to know NVivo better. The group has had an introductory meeting already and will be meeting again December 9 for a presentation on visualization techniques in NVivo. All members of the BU community are welcome. If
Free webinars on using NVivo
QSR, the makers of NVivo, offers a variety of free webinars for those interested in learning more about qualitative data analysis with this software. As well as regular introductory webinars, there are sessions on using NVivo for literature reviews, students using NVivo to organize course information, and analyzing social-media content. You can see a listing and sign up
New in NVivo: Qualtrics import, Explore Diagrams
NVivo has released new versions of its Windows and Mac software, with features likely to be of interest to the BU community. NVivo for Windows now allows you to import Qualtrics surveys as datasets and auto-code them, allowing a deep integration between BU’s data-collection and data-analysis tools. The NVivo help system has instructions to import
NVivo 11 is available
The new version of NVivo is now available! The new NVivo for Mac now allows you to import pictures and code regions of the picture (allowing you to code handwritten data, among other things), and allows you to import social-media data from Facebook and Twitter. The new NVivo 11 for Windows has a simplified query
NVivo site licence
BU IS&T is happy to announce that we have moved up to a site-wide, unlimited-user licence for NVivo, our software for qualitative data analysis. Formerly, we were limited to 500 licences. It is now available to the entire community, and you should feel free to download it as many times as you like as long
Possible user group for data analysis
IS&T ETTO is exploring the possibility of a user group for faculty and staff working with NVivo, and perhaps other data-analysis software such as Qualtrics, to meet and share ideas and experiences. We’re trying to gauge interest in this possibility. If you think you might be interested, please take our survey and let us know what
NVivo Teacher's Guide available online
If you’re thinking about adopting NVivo in your classes, you can download the NVivo Teacher’s Guide from the official NVivo website. It contains modules introducing various aspects of NVivo to students, such as working with interviews and working with PDFs.