{"id":116,"date":"2009-11-15T18:12:52","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T01:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/?p=116"},"modified":"2009-11-15T20:03:54","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T03:03:54","slug":"write-up-exploring-threshold-concepts-using-threshold-concepts-to-generate-a-new-understanding-of-learning-teaching-biology-28th-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/blog\/2009\/11\/write-up-exploring-threshold-concepts-using-threshold-concepts-to-generate-a-new-understanding-of-learning-teaching-biology-28th-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Write-up: Exploring Threshold Concepts: Using Threshold Concepts to Generate a New Understanding of Learning &amp; Teaching Biology, 28th October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first of the &#8216;Exploring Threshold Concepts&#8217; seminars was held on the 28th October.\u00a0 Noel Whitaker (Faculty of Science) and Chris Hughes (Faculty of Medicine) presented the ALTC funded project they are involved in: \u2018Using Threshold Concepts to Generate a New Understanding of Teaching and Learning Biology\u2019, which is a collaboration between UNSW, USyd and UWS.\u00a0\u00a0 For further information see the project website at <a href=\"http:\/\/bugs.bio.usyd.edu.au\/thresholds_in_biology\/Index.html\">http:\/\/bugs.bio.usyd.edu.au\/thresholds_in_biology\/Index.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Noel and Chris explained how the project started by surveying academics to identify the Threshold Concepts in Biology.\u00a0 Through this work with academic colleagues they identified 3 key TCs: Scale; Hypothesis testing; Biological language.\u00a0 The research project then explored learning and teaching interventions related to &#8216;Scale&#8217;. You cand download the full presentation, including results and conclusions, here: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/files\/2009\/11\/LLMUniservePresentation_28th-Oct.pdf\">LLMUniservePresentation_28th Oct<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first of the &#8216;Exploring Threshold Concepts&#8217; seminars was held on the 28th October.\u00a0 Noel Whitaker (Faculty of Science) and Chris Hughes (Faculty of Medicine) presented the ALTC funded project they are involved in: \u2018Using Threshold Concepts to Generate a New Understanding of Teaching and Learning Biology\u2019, which is a collaboration between UNSW, USyd and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[393,398],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-documentation","category-exploring-threshold-concepts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}