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.

The Impulse to Generalism

I spoke recently at the London Expertise Group, a group of philosophers, psychologists and educationalists, about generalism in...

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Oct 21, 20125 min read

Learning Maths 2.0

This year I am tutoring some maths again. I’ve missed it and it was nice to find my brain in decent shape – after 5 years away from...

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Oct 7, 20126 min read

Specialism, Generalism, Details and the Big Picture

Interdisciplinarity is in vogue in education. It’s been in vogue in the US for a while and throughout most of the last 100 years some...

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Sep 18, 20124 min read

Your education is a work of art

So often these days we talk of education as a mechanical or, at best, physical process: you need to ‘tick boxes’, ‘jump through hoops’,...

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Jul 5, 20124 min read

Reclaiming Generalism

Ask yourself this: would you prefer your prime minister to have studied one thing at university or to have had a more rounded higher...

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Jun 30, 20126 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

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

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

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

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

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...

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Nov 23, 20114 min read

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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Nov 17, 20115 min read

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...

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Nov 10, 20115 min read

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...

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Oct 12, 20114 min read

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...

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Sep 30, 20115 min read

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...

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Sep 6, 20115 min read

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CARL GOMBRICH - BLOG

The Impulse to Generalism

Learning Maths 2.0

Specialism, Generalism, Details and the Big Picture

Your education is a work of art

Reclaiming Generalism

I Know Nahthing…

Assessment in universities

Design for Learning vs Emergent Outcomes

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

Do you need to see your lecturer?

International students and UK credentials

Two marks against ‘credentialism’

Interdisciplinarity and individuation

Multiple intelligences, multiple selves

The Khan Academy and undergraduate education

Interdisciplinary education in an established environment – emerging thoughts

Future Universities – teaching low-tech

Teaching yourself

Global anxieties, local hope

10,000 hours and interdisciplinary learning

CONTACT

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