CARL GOMBRICH - BLOG

A couple of months back, Chris Rapley reminded me of the description ‘T-shaped people‘, started in the 1990s. This phrase is used to...

In this vlog I float some questions about the way we visualise certain concepts and processes in education. 1. Why do we think of one...

Health Warning: I am finding it increasingly difficult to keep separate my personal views about education, as expressed on this blog, and...

I had an excellent day at the PELeCON at Plymouth University, despite a mad dash to get there and a chest infection. I learned a great...

A few points that have arisen since my first vlogs – some sent in via twitter. Thanks to all who have engaged or sent comments. 1....

Encouraged by recent discussions of failure in learning (both here at Wimbledon High School for Girls and at the upcoming PELeCON...

Can a vlog ever be truly academic? What about academic register? The right use of jargon? Are we ‘rushing to print (video)’ when we vlog,...

What are the implications of the move towards video for academic work? For culture? For history? Economically for the protagonists? Some...

The way we assess students at university is currently subject to some interesting challenges. I discuss two of these challenges in the...

Here is the link to my Echo 360 lecturecast on ‘Five Steps to Successful Flipping’, which I gave at the HEA assessment event in UCL on...

This is my first vlog. I discuss how recent reports from think-tanks and discussions with major employers point to a re-evaluating of the...

There is a growing interest in what is called Design for Learning. I am reading a nice book on the subject by Julie Dirksen, and Aaron...

A few months back now, there was an interesting debate between Steve Wheeler and Larry Sanger about, essentially, the value of learning...

Many students tell us the most valuable thing they get from university is the small classes, the time when they get to interact with...

When you have two or three degrees and a couple of other strings to your bow, friends and colleagues can be flattering and start to use...

Since I blogged on the dangers of UK universities relying on their credentials in the current climate of change in HE, I’ve been thinking...

Exciting stuff happening at MITx. This is the sort of challenge to higher education and to education in general we like to think about....

‘I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member’, so said Groucho – as Woody Allen tells us in Annie Hall, if you can’t...

A tweet about this conference on ‘Promises’ has me thinking about interdisciplinarity in education: the promises it holds and the risks...

Reading Daniel Ariely’s Predictably Irrational. I like his suggestion that we might all be an ‘agglomeration of multiple selves.’  This...