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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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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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
EH Gombrich and interdisciplinarity
I’ve been thinking about my grandfather EH Gombrich recently, and what he would have made of this talk of interdisciplinarity and what we...
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