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Contents
- Introduction and guidance
- Introduction
- 1 Why don’t they understand?
- 2 Tricky topics as a practice-based application of threshold concepts
- 3 This week’s quiz
- 4 Summary of Week 1
- Introduction
- 1 What are tricky topics again?
- 2 What is it that students don’t understand?
- 3 Categorising trickiness in tricky topics
- 4 This week’s quiz
- 5 Summary of Week 2
- Introduction
- 1 Stumbling blocks and problem examples
- 2 The tricky topics process
- 3 Structuring tricky topics
- 4 Different ways of conducting the tricky topics process
- 5 This week’s quiz
- 6 Summary of Week 3
- Introduction
- 1 OU learning design
- 2 Hearing the student voice
- 3 Student profiles
- 4 This week’s quiz
- 5 Summary of Week 4
- Introduction
- 1 To the classroom
- 2 Learning design classification
- 3 Using activity types to plan interventions
- 4 This week’s quiz
- 5 Summary of Week 5
- Introduction
- 1 Innovating pedagogies
- 2 Targeted learning interventions
- 3 Planning an intervention
- 4 This week’s quiz
- 5 Summary of Week 6
- Introduction
- 1 What are tricky topic quizzes and assessment?
- 2 Creating a tricky topic quiz
- 3 Using the quiz
- 4 This week’s quiz
- 5 Summary of Week 7
- Introduction
- 1 Developing yourself and your organisation
- 2 Tricky topics theories
- 3 The tricky topic process
- 4 Learning design
- 5 Learning innovations
- 8 Summary of Week 8
- 7 This week’s quiz
- 8 End-of-course round up
- Where next?
- Tell us what you think
- References
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgements
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