Latest / Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning
Are Students Knowledge Consumers or Co-Producers? A discussion on academic co-creation with Robert Gray
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Robert Gray, Associate Professor of University Pedagogy at the University of Bergen in Norway, to explore a fundamental question about the purpose of higher education: should learning be an act of consumption or production? Maybe the best learning experiences don't simply ask students to absorb information—they invite students to actively re-write and co-create knowledge with the teacher.
Dr. Gray's research draws on Roland Barthes' concepts of "readerly" and "writerly" texts, arguing that valuable learning happens when students are encouraged to…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.