October 5, 2017 by peda

The Grandmother Syndrome

The Needless Complexity of Academic Writing

I call it the”Grandmother Syndrome” – how do you take a complex subject, for example climate change, and explain it to your grandmother?

The Needless Complexity of Academic Writing

This blog is an initiative of the Global Development Research Center’s Learning Lab.

What is the GDRC Learning Lab? The lab is a place where different aspects of the learning process are analyzed and studied. It looks at the entire life-cycle of information management, from collection and analysis, to presentation and use of information. For GDRC, the Learning Lab represents a critical skill that we all have to posses to be able to use the right form of technology to present information in the right format, in order to manage knowledge properly.

With this spirit, the blog focuses on pedagogy and creating a learning environment for learning. Enjoy!