Ash BarberJul 28, 2025

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Speaking of Open

Podcast · Speaking of Open · Speaking of Open is hosted by Ash & Mais, two passionate open education advocates who love to chat and dive deep on the diversity of open education work in Australasia. Join us as we chat with open educators, librarians, learning designers, and more to learn about their work in transforming teaching and learning in the unique Australasian experience. Find Ash Barber on LinkedIn, Bluesky and Mastodon.au @AshTheLibrarian, and Mais Fatayer on LinkedIn @MaisFatayer Except where otherwise noted, the pod is licensed CC BY 4.0. Music by Mermaid Guitar, CC-BY-SA: https://mermaidguitar.bandcamp.com.

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Show threadCornelia KennewegMar 24, 2025
In den letzten Tagen habe ich noch gemeinsam mit meinen Miteitragenden für den letzten Schliff meiner Beiträge gesorgt. Am Mittwoch Vormittag trage ich mit meinem Göttinger Kollegen Matthias Wiemer zu #ThresholdConcepts vor. Und am Donnerstag präsentiert sich der Verein @HD_Text_eV mit meiner Beteiligung in der NetworkCorner.
Vor allem aber freue ich mich auf das Wiedersehen in der Community #dghd2025
Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEAMar 2, 2025

I liked this article for many reasons, including:

- it affords supervisors/ees a portal into #CriticalRealism

- it's written to build community through troublesome #ThresholdConcepts

Thinking like a critical realist: getting through the portal. Journal of Critical Realism https://doi.org/10.1080/14767430.2025.2458550

bs2Sep 20, 2024

> In every discipline there are some concepts or skills that seem to be particularly difficult to teach. Meyer and Land (2006) called them “threshold concepts” because they have to be gotten over to proceed.

#FD #FacDev #McKeachiesTeachingTips on
#ThresholdConcepts

https://diasp.org/posts/8332385

McKeachie's Teaching Tips on most common error, mental dazzle, and ...

McKeachie's Teaching Tips on most common error, mental dazzle, and performance versus mastery, and threshold concepts In the 2014 International Edition page 58 starts chapter 6: How to make lectures more effective and the section: Research on the effectiveness of lectures A large number of studies have compared the effectiveness of lectures with other teaching methods. The results almost invariably show that active learning methods are superior to straight lectures in student retention of information after the end of a course; in transfer of knowledge to new situations; in development of problem solving, thinking or attitude change; and in motivation for further learning (Goldstein, 2007; McKeachie et al., 1990; Prince, 2004; Smith et al., 2005; Yoder and Hochevar, 2005). Similarly, text sources offer advantages over lecture. Students can read faster than lecturers can lecture, and they can go back when they don't understand, skip material that is irrelevant, and review immediately...

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Jan de Muijnck-HughesApr 19, 2024

I am learning about learning theories for my PGCERT. This week's topic: #ThresholdConcepts & #LiminalStates.

We have been asked if we recognise when/if our past selves have been in a liminal state. I have realised, that the answer is yes. All the time since starting as an Ass Professor.

As a lecturer I am in a constant liminal state: faking it until I make it... Be it supervising Human Factors projects, course design, citizenship, independence.

I have some idea of what to do, and so I copy 'good' habits from others. (Ditching bad habits as well) That being said, I do recognise that I am now starting to master more of the fundamentals so that I am faking less and less.

George StationJan 7, 2023

#ThresholdConcepts

You gotta give credit to any entity called Elon that just keeps on mission these days.

Here, the Center for Engaged Learning at Elon University shares its bank of #videos on Threshold Concepts:

https://www.centerforengagedlearning.org/videos/category/tc/

Threshold Concepts Archives - Center for Engaged Learning

Center for Engaged Learning
bs2Sep 25, 2022
#KoheiSaito's book is telling me about a lot of #ThresholdConcepts and #KeyPeople. I'm wondering why I never heard of them before. One #KeyPerson seems to be #DanielONeill with a #GoodLife within #PlanetaryBoundaries. I #SaitoKohei's reworking of this visualization, more of an outlier than #SriLanka, #Vietnam transgresses only one #BiophysicalBoundary while achieving 6 #SocialThresholds. I just saw an interview of @JayatiGhosh where she mentions #SuzyPaine and #DoiMoi.
https://goodlife.leeds.ac.uk/
A Good Life For All Within Planetary Boundaries

See how countries have been moving towards (or away from) the goal of meeting the needs of their residents within the means of the planet.

A Good Life For All Within Planetary Boundaries
Show threadbs2Sep 16, 2022
The 1998 article quoted above gave me important #ThresholdConcepts to think with. Besides inconsistencies on how Debt is seen and handled: The dangers of #CaptialFlight, the importance of the control of finance for development are developed in other writings by #Chomsky. Didn't Korea have the death penalty for the rich that tried to take their money out of the country? If the State hadn't been stronger than the rich, there'd be no Samsung Galaxy gadgets. Japan controlled its rich too...
bs2Jul 11, 2022
Two separate conversations sent me to #EdwardTufte's #BeautifulEvidence of the last day. P.161 had me thinking of #ConwaysLaw and #GoodTeaching for years. This page sent me to #McKeachies that gave me two more ideas to chew on: #GestaltPsychology's #DavidKatz's #MentalDazzle and #ThresholdConcepts for choosing what to teach while attempting a Minimalist Program....
https://www.wired.com/2003/09/ppt2/
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PowerPoint Is Evil

Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely.

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The Librarian 🌷Nov 5, 2017

Also if you, dear reader, have suggested #thresholdconcepts for #mathmatics, please reply with your suggestion. (I do already have a bunch of research on this, so things like "negative" numbers and sets are strong candidates for threshold concepts.)

Link about threshold concepts (in case this term is unfamiliar): https://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~mflanaga/thresholds.html

The Threshold Concept