Threshold concepts are concepts central to the mastery of a specific discipline. The project team created a generic model for using these concepts to explore and reflect on student misconceptions and the teaching of troublesome knowledge for use by teachers in biology. Student understanding of the concepts was tested and interventions designed to help improve understanding. A biology teaching package was created along with a generic teaching model and guidelines to assist learning. Project publications and resources are available at the project website.
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The Resource Library contains a collection of higher education learning and teaching materials flowing from projects funded by the Commonwealth of Australia including those from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council.
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Zen and the art of transdisciplinary postgraduate studies
University of Technology, Sydney
2009
This is the Summary Report for a project focused on developing an evaluative frame for the formative and summative outputs of transdisciplinary/interdisciplinary research for use by students and supervisors. While the project title focuses on postgraduate studies, the project focus is applicable to any such research activity, including undergraduate papers. It provides helpful information in a learning and teaching area that is a current and growing practice, but with little practical guidance for either supervisors or students. Transdisciplinary/interdisciplinary research is growing in Australia as researchers appreciate the value of working across disciplines to be relevant to the complexity of real life applications of research knowledge. The core question of this project is the development of ways to evaluate the outcomes of such research, whether a thesis or research paper, along with formative processes to guide supervisors and students to quality outcomes. Reading the Summary Report can be of value for two purposes. Firstly, it gives information on the conduct of a major learning and teaching development activity that others planning such an activity could find useful, including the process of a large action research project. The second purpose is that it explains the theoretical underpinnings of the project, including a review of research literature informing the overall project. The practical outcomes from the project are provided in separate resource documents: Quality Criteria; Ideas for Good Practice; Workshop Resources; Workshop Facilitator Slides. These resources can be used separately to guide supervision practice, or together to run an actual workshop on the topic.The Summary Report has a clear writing style. As the report is necessarily brief and addresses the whole conduct and outcomes of the project, some readers may find the theoretical explanations underpinning the project, provided in one and a half pages, dense. However, this brief explanation provides a number of research references that could guide further reading by a person interested in this area of teaching and learning.
Where are our doctoral candidates coming from and why?
The Australian National University
2011
Edith Cowan University, James Cook University, Queensland University of Technology, The University of New South Wales
What's happening in Science?
Australian Learning and Teaching Council Limited
2007
What's happening in Leadership?
Australian Learning and Teaching Council Limited
2009
What's Happening in Fellowships?
Australian Learning and Teaching Council Limited
2010
What's happening in assessment? 2009
Australian Learning and Teaching Council Limited
2010
What's happening in Assessment?
Australian Learning and Teaching Council Limited
2008
Website for the development of legal postgraduate supervision
Web 2.0 authoring tools in higher education: new directions for assessment and academic integrity
The University of Melbourne
2011
Monash University, RMIT University
Virtual microscopy for enhancing learning and teaching
The University of New South Wales
2009
Veterinary pharmacology curriculum renewal to improve graduate outcomes and public safety
The University of Queensland
2011
Australian Veterinary Association, Chapter of Veterinary Pharmacology, Charles Sturt University, James Cook University, Massey University (NZ), Murdoch University, The University of Melbourne, The University of Sydney
Using threshold concepts to generate a new understanding of teaching and learning biology
The University of Sydney
2011
The University of New South Wales, University of Western Sydney
Using team management systems to identify and build leadership for quality learning in clinical health care teams
The University of Adelaide
2011
Includes resources:
- A guide to using team management systems (tms) for learning and teaching quality improvement in health care teams
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Flinders University, University of South Australia
Using cost-effective multimedia to create engaging learning experiences in law and other disciplines
Queensland University of Technology
2011
This fellowship addresses the needs of (1) final year law students studying ethics and (2) law academics and other interested educators in higher education wishing to use ICT to create engaging learning environments for their students but lacking the capacity to do so. A blended learning program was developed including instruction on theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of legal ethics, together with Entry into Valhalla, an online suite of modules featuring self-test quizzes and machinima scenarios depicting legal dilemmas confronting the members of a fictional law firm. The project website includes a detailed resources manual and instructional videos.
University student engagement and satisfaction with learning and teaching
University of Western Sydney
2009
This document is a report prepared for the Review of Australian Higher Education in 2008.
Understanding Architectural Education in Australasia
The University of Newcastle
2008
Uncovering theology: the depth, reach and utility of Australian theological education
Australian Catholic University
2009
Turning expert knowledge into teachable knowledge
Murdoch University
1997
Final report for a 1997 National Teaching Development Grant.
Turnaround Leadership for Sustainability in Higher Education
University of Western Sydney
2012
ANU, Sustainable Futures Academy (Salzburg)
Tribes and cultures: frameworks for shared language and intent to cost-effectively improve learning outcomes
Curtin University
2011
This project aims to facilitate the construction of effective electronic learning systems by investigating the domain-specific language used in their development by university lecturers, instructional designers, educationalists and IT specialists. Project outcomes include: an interactive glossary outlining the shared language and the language conflicts of the stakeholder groups; a pedagogical design framework, which specifies the communication processes between the design, implementation and user partners; an annotated bibliography; and a project website.
The University of New South Wales
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