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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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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Failure and Confusion
Encouraged by recent discussions of failure in learning (both here at Wimbledon High School for Girls and at the upcoming PELeCON...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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