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.

T-shaped people, pancake people and Stickle Brick people

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

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May 12, 20124 min read

Visualising education – first thoughts on uses of imagery

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...

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May 4, 20122 min read

Breadth vs Depth in university education

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

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May 2, 20125 min read

I Know Nahthing…

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...

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Apr 21, 20124 min read

Update on vlogging for academic purposes

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....

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Apr 14, 20121 min read

Failure and Confusion

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

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Apr 14, 20121 min read

Academic vlogging II

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,...

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Apr 4, 20121 min read

Vlogging and academic work

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

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Apr 2, 20122 min read

Assessment in universities

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

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Apr 1, 20121 min read

Flipping and Polling Questions

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...

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Mar 11, 20123 min read

Humanities – a source of future value?

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...

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Mar 5, 20121 min read

Design for Learning vs Emergent Outcomes

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...

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Feb 29, 20125 min read

Drill Classes? Really – in the age of web 2.0?

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

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Feb 20, 20125 min read

Do you need to see your lecturer?

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

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Feb 12, 20124 min read

If I Were A Polymath…

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...

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Feb 10, 20126 min read

International students and UK credentials

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...

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Feb 8, 20124 min read

Two marks against ‘credentialism’

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

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Jan 30, 20123 min read

Groucho Marx and interdisciplinary education

‘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...

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Jan 24, 20122 min read

Interdisciplinarity and individuation

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

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Jan 16, 20124 min read

Multiple intelligences, multiple selves

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

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Jan 10, 20123 min read

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CARL GOMBRICH - BLOG

T-shaped people, pancake people and Stickle Brick people

Visualising education – first thoughts on uses of imagery

Breadth vs Depth in university education

I Know Nahthing…

Update on vlogging for academic purposes

Failure and Confusion

Academic vlogging II

Vlogging and academic work

Assessment in universities

Flipping and Polling Questions

Humanities – a source of future value?

Design for Learning vs Emergent Outcomes

Drill Classes? Really – in the age of web 2.0?

Do you need to see your lecturer?

If I Were A Polymath…

International students and UK credentials

Two marks against ‘credentialism’

Groucho Marx and interdisciplinary education

Interdisciplinarity and individuation

Multiple intelligences, multiple selves

CONTACT

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