Iain Stalker and Rinkal Desai In this session we invite colleagues interested in or involved with the teaching of business- and management-related concepts to students outside of the traditional Business School environments. In particular, we are keen to explore the universality of so-called “threshold concepts”: are these true thresholds to the subject per se and … Continue reading Threshold Concepts: Universal or Contextual? A Round Table Discussion →

Christine Bohlander The strength of Threshold Concepts is their breadth of applications due to their discipline-specific nature. However, the framework does not take into account how individual students navigate and negotiate cultural contested spaces. My ethnographic research of a small cohort of German theology students in Jerusalem brought to light that in disciplines where long-held … Continue reading Don’t carry me over the threshold →

Geraldine McDermott This research investigates how higher education (HE) teachers across a number of disciplines use multimodal screencasts (videos) to explain important concepts to students. Not all concepts within the study are threshold concepts (Meyer and Land, 2003), yet all concepts chosen are difficult for students to grasp. The study explores the reasons for choosing … Continue reading Exploring the use of multimodal screencasts for knowledge development in Higher Education →