Learning and Assessment. Back to the future.
Every summer my father, R F Gombrich, gives a course in Pali for anyone who is interested. Typically about 14-20 students come on the...
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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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Rigour in interdisciplinary education
What is rigour in education? A rigorous education must be intellectually demanding. It must require students to present work which is...
Cognitive Work
Some of the most sceptical remarks about a liberal/interdisciplinary education come from those who are experts in established academic...
‘Difficult Thinking’ and Interdisciplinarity
At the SRHE conference on Structuring Knowledge last week, Gareth Williams said that we need people in our universities to do the...
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...
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...
Interdisciplinarity and individuation
A tweet about this conference on ‘Promises’ has me thinking about interdisciplinarity in education: the promises it holds and the risks...
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...
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