“Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories,” according to prominent research psychologist Robert Epstein (2016). So why do we often speak about teaching as a transfer of information? The so-called “transmission approach” (Open University), while rejected by many practising teachers and educational theorists, remains at the core of popular understandings of … Continue reading CTRL-C, CTRL-V (repeat)
Is the future of higher education europamericancentric?
In his TEDx-talk Kevin Manning envisions higher education in the future as something EVERYBODY can access through their smartphones. This is an appealing thought: Education for everybody! Even higher education for everybody! Easily accessible through the smartphones which – according to him – everybody, even in poor countries, owns already (Manning 2016). However, Manning does … Continue reading Is the future of higher education europamericancentric?
Teaching and mentoring in theory and practice 