O’Mahony, C., Buchanan, A., O’Rourke, M., and Higgs, B.

2014

January

Threshold Concepts: from personal practice to communities of practice. Proceedings of the National Academy’s 6th Annual Conference and the 4th Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference.

NAIRTL

Cork

Published

1

Threshold Concepts, Integrative Learning, Interdisciplinary, Professional Development

Drawing on key insights from a NAIRTL conference on the same theme, this publication encourages teachers in Higher Education to focus on building students’ understanding of key concepts rather than teaching an ever expanding list of topics. The former approach being more suited to creating high quality, engaged graduates.

978-1-906642-58-7

http://www.nairtl.ie/documents/EPub_2012Proceedings.pdf