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.

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

If I Were A Polymath…

When you have two or three degrees and a couple of other strings to your bow, friends and colleagues can be flattering and start to use...

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Feb 10, 20126 min read

Referencing and Punctuation

Here’s two things I have never been very good at: academic referencing and punctuation. It might seem odd that a teacher at a superb...

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Feb 9, 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

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

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...

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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...

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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

Dreams and happiness

My friend Peter Gibson told me that if you are happy you are not supposed to want to sleep too much: you want to be awake to enjoy as...

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Oct 28, 20113 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

Economist bashing – enough already?

I am one of those who has enjoyed taking a pop at many academic economists recently. Informally and to friends, I have compared academic...

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Sep 28, 20115 min read

Thoughts on the work of J M Greer: The Wealth of Nature

Reading The Wealth of Nature by J M Greer and enjoying it very much. The chapter called The Metaphysics of Money is particularly...

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Sep 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

Thoughts on entropy, energy and economics

This is one of many blogs in which I try to work out my picture of economics and its implications for our futures. These attempts will...

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Sep 18, 20116 min read

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CARL GOMBRICH - BLOG

Do you need to see your lecturer?

If I Were A Polymath…

Referencing and Punctuation

International students and UK credentials

Two marks against ‘credentialism’

Groucho Marx and interdisciplinary education

Interdisciplinarity and individuation

Multiple intelligences, multiple selves

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

Flipping the lecture hall: first thoughts

The Khan Academy and undergraduate education

Interdisciplinary education in an established environment – emerging thoughts

Future Universities – teaching low-tech

Dreams and happiness

Teaching yourself

Global anxieties, local hope

Economist bashing – enough already?

Thoughts on the work of J M Greer: The Wealth of Nature

Series learning versus parallel learning

Thoughts on entropy, energy and economics

CONTACT

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