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Thursday, November 27, 2014

Threshold Concepts - one of '10 trends set to shake up education'

Professor Ray Land emailed the Threshold Concepts community following up on the conference held in July 2014. I can't believe that very soon another month and the 2016 conference in Nova Scotia will be 'next year', but there we go...

Prof. Land updated us on a prospective book, and when available I will post news of the book and the next conference here.

While I am sure Threshold Concepts are (very) applicable to Hodges' model and my research interests, I am not trying to contribute to the planned text. I'm busy enough with the third graduate study module. Reading, discussion, a 4k word draft essay, two peer student reviews...

Prof Land also highlighted the following, which he's happy for me to share with you [I've added the image]:

... We were pleased to see that Thresholds were identified as one of '10 trends set to shake up education' as reported in The Times Higher magazine last week.


http://www.open.ac.uk/iet/main/files/iet-web/file/ecms/web-content/Innovating_Pedagogy_2014.pdf
Innovating Pedagogy 2014 - Report
The report, produced by the Open University and called 'Innovating Pedagogy 2014', is free to download here:

https://iet.open.ac.uk/file/innovating-pedagogy-2014.pdf

Kind regards and hope that all is well where you are.

More shortly

Ray
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Professor Ray Land
Director, Centre for Academic Practice (CAP)
& Professor of Higher Education,
School of Education, Durham University,
Leazes Road, Durham DH1 1TA
United Kingdom