CARL GOMBRICH - BLOG

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

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...

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

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....

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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