Thresholdconcepts Apr10
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How do you decide when to design an intervention to support students online? Identifying threshold concepts and troublsome knowledge in your course perhaps.
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- 1. Tutoring the troublesome bits Dr Janet Macdonald Open University in Scotland Scholarship Development event, Manchester Apr 2010
- 3. Knowledge as provisional, contestable and culturally situated Nettlesome Confused and bemused Insecure, transitional states Oscillating states, recursive movements A penny dropping moment Transfiguration of identity Changes who we are as well as what we know
- 6. Visit the wiki once a month to edit contributions as course proceeds. Try out new interventions. Face to face workshop to discuss course teaching Share interventions and activities to address problematic areas Enter all workshop outputs in a wiki Brainstorm problematic parts of course Sharing teaching approaches
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- Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge – used here as a “sensitising concept”, to stimulate discussion about the way in which courses are taught. There may be aspects of Maths or History which are always tricky for students. But recognition that knowledge may also be troublesome because of the way it is presented in the course or because of students’ previous life experiences or previous courses.
- Staff on both courses identified particular parts of the course with which students encounter difficulties