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Friday, October 16, 2015

Threshold concepts and course design

Each discipline has a set of concepts that are notoriously troublesome for student to learn, not for lack of trying, but for the fundamental shift in perspective that they both enable and require. Threshold concepts have been described as 鈥減ortals鈥� or 鈥渃onceptual gateways鈥� that 鈥渙pen up previously inaccessible ways of thinking鈥� (Meyer... More

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