Sara Miller and Craig Gibson (Chair's error: the first few minutes of this was not recorded by accident). A threshold concepts framework in tandem with curricular design models provides the basis for cross-disciplinary curricular development in information literacy. This paper presents a prototype curriculum for an online short course for disciplinary faculty and librarians based … Continue reading Creating Networks of Practice through an Online Short Course →

Virginia M. Tucker and Michelle Holschuh Simmons The authors previously presented preliminary findings from their research using the threshold concepts framework to understand dispositional readiness in the field of teaching (Seventh Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference, 2018). Session attendees demonstrated considerable interest in our methodology of collaborative thematic analysis, informed by grounded theory. For this presentation, … Continue reading Vital but not thresholds: Differentiating professional domain essentials and threshold knowledge →

Yvonne Nalani Meulemans and Matthew Atherton What if we taught students the threshold concepts theory? Has anyone ever done that? Could this be a tool for students to understand the hidden curriculum of higher education? What if we asked students what their own threshold concepts were in their education? This paper reports on a novel … Continue reading Teaching students the threshold concept theory: A potential tool to develop students’ capacity to cope with liminality →