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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 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.
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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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Sep 30, 20153 min read
Interdisciplinarity: easy but hard; hard but easy.
In some ways the concept of interdisciplinarity is easy: when doing research or when learning, follow the problem, not ‘the subject’....
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May 1, 20143 min read
Generation Blend
This year on Arts and Sciences BASc at UCL, several students studied MOOCs and used online sources alongside their undergraduate modules...
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Jul 2, 20136 min read
The New Amateurism
I blogged recently on dilettantism. This was intended as a piece of provocation. But it was also, in my view, an optimistic take on the...
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Jun 22, 20135 min read
Learning, unlearning and relearning
Some people don’t like this phrase. It was first popularised by Alvin Toffler – he of Future Shock. Those who think the ’21st century...
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Jun 20, 20134 min read
The Most Important Thing in Education
I attended the Future Learning conference at Stephen Perse School on Wednesday. The school is in a tiny street in the centre of Cambridge...
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Mar 1, 20133 min read
Flipping lectures – reflections on a term of learning
The Approaches to Knowledge course on Arts and Sciences BASc at UCL has now finished. For this module most of the lectures were ‘flipped’...
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Dec 20, 20126 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
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
Failure and Confusion
Encouraged by recent discussions of failure in learning (both here at Wimbledon High School for Girls and at the upcoming PELeCON...
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Apr 14, 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
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 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...
carlgombrich
Nov 28, 20114 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...
carlgombrich
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
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...
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Sep 14, 20114 min read
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