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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Dec 5, 20117 min read

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...

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Nov 28, 20114 min read

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...

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Sep 22, 20115 min read

Resisting expertise

As I read more on interdisciplinarity, learn more about it through my daily work, talk more to colleagues who do fascinating...

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Sep 16, 20114 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

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...

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Aug 28, 20116 min read

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...

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Aug 22, 20113 min read

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CARL GOMBRICH - BLOG

Your education is a work of art

Reclaiming Generalism

T-shaped people, pancake people and Stickle Brick people

Breadth vs Depth in university education

Humanities – a source of future value?

Design for Learning vs Emergent Outcomes

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

International students and UK credentials

Groucho Marx and interdisciplinary education

Interdisciplinarity and individuation

The web, ways of learning, interdisciplinarity and a history of knowledge

Flipping the lecture hall: first thoughts

Series learning versus parallel learning

Resisting expertise

10,000 hours and interdisciplinary learning

Interdisciplinarity, future work and the learning of ‘languages’

Cross-reference theory of understanding – the Searchlight Metaphor

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