{"id":69,"date":"2009-10-21T21:15:17","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T04:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/?p=69"},"modified":"2009-11-11T18:01:57","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T01:01:57","slug":"exploring-threshold-concepts-28-october-12-1-30pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/blog\/2009\/10\/exploring-threshold-concepts-28-october-12-1-30pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming: Exploring Threshold Concepts, 28th October 12-1.30pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This will be the first seminar in the &#8216;Exploring Threshold Concepts Series&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The aims of these sessions are twofold \u2013<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>firstly      to showcase research that is being done into the area of threshold      concepts at UNSW<\/li>\n<li>secondly, to provide the opportunity for participates to discuss their own research \u2013 or potential research \u2013 into this area with the view of supporting the development of abstracts for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thresholdconcepts2010.unsw.edu.au\/\"> International Thresholds Symposium 2010<\/a> hosted by UNSW<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The session will be facilitated by Jan McLean, Learning &amp; Teaching at UNSW.<\/p>\n<p>In this first session Noel Whitaker and Chris Hughes will discuss 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. 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>Time: 12.00-1.30pm<br \/>\nLocation: Climate Change Research Centre, Level 4 Mathews Building<br \/>\nLight lunch will be provided by L&amp;T@UNSW with support from the ALTC.<\/p>\n<p>Please register online at <a title=\"http:\/\/www.edtec.unsw.edu.au\/event_rego\/events.cfm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.edtec.unsw.edu.au\/event_rego\/events.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.edtec.unsw.edu.au\/event_rego\/events.cfm<\/a><br \/>\nFor further information please contact Erin Withers at <a href=\"mailto:d.owen@unsw.edu.au\">e.withers@unsw.edu.au<\/a> or phone x58636.\u00a0 You can read more about the Connections in Learning &amp; Teaching Seminar series <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/about\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After this, the next &#8216;Exploring Threshold Concepts&#8217; session will be held on <strong>25th November.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will be the first seminar in the &#8216;Exploring Threshold Concepts Series&#8217;. The aims of these sessions are twofold \u2013 firstly to showcase research that is being done into the area of threshold concepts at UNSW secondly, to provide the opportunity for participates to discuss their own research \u2013 or potential research \u2013 into this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[392,393,398],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","category-event-documentation","category-exploring-threshold-concepts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","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=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}