The web, ways of learning, interdisciplinarity and a history of knowledge
Our first round of applicants came to the Open Day of UCL Arts and Sciences BASc last week. It was a very enjoyable day for us and great...
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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 tab, top left. 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.
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Flipping the lecture hall: first thoughts
Inspired by Khan, reading more at Steve Wheeler’s blog and many other links, I am thinking more about how we can use technology at...
The Khan Academy and undergraduate education
I’ve been struck today by this story on the BBC pages, which pulls together things I have been writing on the blog since I started and...
Interdisciplinary education in an established environment – emerging thoughts
I feel at risk once again of getting sucked into the discipline of interdisciplinarity, prompted this time by some excellent articles on...
Future Universities – teaching low-tech
Lots on the future of universities in the air. I’m sorry I missed the series at Cambridge with Martin Rees, Stefan Collini and others...
Teaching yourself
‘We can only teach ourselves’ is a phrase one hears in educational circles. I guess this is true on some level, but I do not want to turn...
Global anxieties, local hope
My current job takes me out to talk to young people. I visit schools, and also they come to our university to discuss the Arts and...
Economist bashing – enough already?
I am one of those who has enjoyed taking a pop at many academic economists recently. Informally and to friends, I have compared academic...
Series learning versus parallel learning
One of the principal criticisms one meets when setting up an interdisciplinary degree is that what the student learns will be...
Resisting expertise
As I read more on interdisciplinarity, learn more about it through my daily work, talk more to colleagues who do fascinating...
Enoughness of expertise in higher education in the age of web 2.0
I want to introduce the concept of ‘enough expertise’ into higher education – particularly with respect to teaching undergraduates. The...
10,000 hours and interdisciplinary learning
The notion that 10,000 hours is what is required to reach expertise in a given area has been popularised by Malcolm Gladwell and appeared...
Social science and value judgements
I had a nice conversation with one of my favourite philosophers at UCL recently, a man I respect greatly. His main research area has been...
Experts, PhDs, research, employment – and musicians
There is anxiety that the UK is not producing enough PhD level researchers, particularly in science and engineering. The view of some...
Interdisciplinarity, future work and the learning of ‘languages’
Currently my work has me thinking about future employment, the world of work and the role of universities in preparing students for this...
Why go to university?
Leaving aside the discussion of value for money from a university education, why, if learning is what you are interested in, should you...
Cross-reference theory of understanding – the Searchlight Metaphor
I hold that you get the best understanding of something by looking at it from many different angles. You can think of this as...
‘Value for Money’ in university education
There is concern among students, their parents and guardians, politicians and the media that university students should get ‘value for...
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