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Reeping, David – International Journal for Academic Development, 2020
The framework of threshold concepts has been used across several disciplines in higher education. Although the literature surrounding the identification of threshold concepts and their nature has flourished, their conceptualization has seemingly diverged across disciplinary lines, which should be recognized by educational developers who work with…
Descriptors: Fundamental Concepts, College Curriculum, Engineering, Writing (Composition)
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Parker, Jan – Teaching in Higher Education, 2013
It is urgent that we re-examine models of knowledge and knowledge-making within the university, at this time of open learning and deregulated multi-million dollar and euro open science hubs and portals. For otherwise, we are bound into "crude" instrumentalism, "delivering" "knowledge packets" rather than seeing our…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Higher Education, College Curriculum, Curriculum Development
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Kinchin, Ian M. – International Perspectives on Higher Education Research, 2013
The visualisation of knowledge structures through concept mapping can be employed to reveal critical links between theory and practice. This allows consideration of particular disciplinary knowledge structures and the active role of the student in manipulating these structures to gain understanding, in a manner that can encourage students to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Research, Concept Mapping, Research Methodology
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Brown, Barbara Alice; Harte, Jacqui; Warnes, Anne-Marie – Education & Training, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to share practice on how two approaches to work-based learning (WBL) are used to develop the knowledge and skills of health care staff with different levels of experience and educational attainment within the Department of Nursing and the Department of Allied Health Professions at a post-1992 university…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Models, Comparative Analysis, Concept Mapping