CARL GOMBRICH - BLOG

Higher Education, Interdisciplinarity, and some related things like Expertise and Future of Work

Welcome to my new blog. You can read more about me in the About section. I'm looking forward to getting back to 'writing and thinking out loud' about Higher Education, Interdisciplinarity and other things that interest me. You can talk to me either here or on my linked Twitter feed.

Generation Blend

This year on Arts and Sciences BASc at UCL, several students studied MOOCs and used online sources alongside their undergraduate modules...

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Jul 2, 20136 min read

The New Amateurism

I blogged recently on dilettantism. This was intended as a piece of provocation. But it was also, in my view, an optimistic take on the...

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Jun 22, 20135 min read

Learning, unlearning and relearning

Some people don’t like this phrase. It was first popularised by Alvin Toffler – he of Future Shock. Those who think the ’21st century...

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Jun 20, 20134 min read

Would you do your own degree?

This is a question I am increasingly asked. It’s a well fair question to someone leading a big course which includes a lot of innovation....

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May 18, 20135 min read

General expertise – the gap between rote learning and a different sort of mastery

The work of Fernand Gobet and Herbert Simon seems to indicate that expertise is ‘domain specific’. That is, you can only learn to be an...

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May 8, 20134 min read

Being Serious

The last blog was a venture out on a limb to reclaim some of the ground for ‘dilettantism’ in work and in study. The intuition comes from...

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Mar 13, 20133 min read

Learn, Play, Work, Play

This blog should be read with its companion: Being Serious One of the fun things about being part of the ‘knowledge revolution’ is that...

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Mar 13, 20135 min read

The Most Important Thing in Education

I attended the Future Learning conference at Stephen Perse School on Wednesday. The school is in a tiny street in the centre of Cambridge...

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Mar 1, 20133 min read

Holistic Hijack

I had in mind to do a proper academic blog on an idea I have that liberal education has generally not flourished in the UK due to a...

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Feb 9, 20132 min read

Flipping lectures – reflections on a term of learning

The Approaches to Knowledge course on Arts and Sciences BASc at UCL has now finished. For this module most of the lectures were ‘flipped’...

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Dec 20, 20126 min read

The Impulse to Generalism

I spoke recently at the London Expertise Group, a group of philosophers, psychologists and educationalists, about generalism in...

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Oct 21, 20125 min read

Learning Maths 2.0

This year I am tutoring some maths again. I’ve missed it and it was nice to find my brain in decent shape – after 5 years away from...

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Oct 7, 20126 min read

Cognitive Work

Some of the most sceptical remarks about a liberal/interdisciplinary education come from those who are experts in established academic...

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Sep 30, 20122 min read

Specialism, Generalism, Details and the Big Picture

Interdisciplinarity is in vogue in education. It’s been in vogue in the US for a while and throughout most of the last 100 years some...

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Sep 18, 20124 min read

Reflections on making flipped lectures

I’ve been recording flipped lectures. In this vlog I reflect on points of interest that have come up. 1. How lecturing style can be...

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Aug 26, 20121 min read

Can we talk about leadership?

Can we talk about leadership? Specifically, can we talk about the relationship between leadership and undergraduate degrees? I have a...

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Jul 17, 20122 min read

‘Difficult Thinking’ and Interdisciplinarity

At the SRHE conference on Structuring Knowledge last week, Gareth Williams said that we need people in our universities to do the...

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Jul 5, 20125 min read

Your education is a work of art

So often these days we talk of education as a mechanical or, at best, physical process: you need to ‘tick boxes’, ‘jump through hoops’,...

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Jul 5, 20124 min read

Reclaiming Generalism

Ask yourself this: would you prefer your prime minister to have studied one thing at university or to have had a more rounded higher...

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Jun 30, 20126 min read

Knowledge, Democratisation and Power

My job takes me to meet and speak with people who have radically different ideas about the nature of knowledge: its origins, its history,...

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May 20, 20126 min read

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CARL GOMBRICH - BLOG

Generation Blend

The New Amateurism

Learning, unlearning and relearning

Would you do your own degree?

General expertise – the gap between rote learning and a different sort of mastery

Being Serious

Learn, Play, Work, Play

The Most Important Thing in Education

Holistic Hijack

Flipping lectures – reflections on a term of learning

The Impulse to Generalism

Learning Maths 2.0

Cognitive Work

Specialism, Generalism, Details and the Big Picture

Reflections on making flipped lectures

Can we talk about leadership?

‘Difficult Thinking’ and Interdisciplinarity

Your education is a work of art

Reclaiming Generalism

Knowledge, Democratisation and Power

CONTACT

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