Departures from conventional grading systems at uni

I think he basically meant that you should promote the learning of key concepts and the development of creative thinking in parallel, so that you end up with people who both know things and can use what they know in awesome ways.

I can't picture higher education based on rote memorization. How would that work? What would it serve? So strange. Maybe I should visit Chin---bwahahaha

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Originally Posted by Aimless

I think he basically meant that you should promote the learning of key concepts and the development of creative thinking in parallel, so that you end up with people who both know things and can use what they know in awesome ways.

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You still have to start with the basics :)

If you want to build creative or artful houses, first you still have to learn how to build houses which don't collapse at the first sneeze of a butterfly. As long as you don't state during the teaching that your models are the ultimate and only way of doing something, there's still plenty of space for creativity.

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Originally Posted by Nessus

Reports are a very early part of learning to write article level text, and as such definitely belongs in the basic studies. However, I would discourage "out of the box" thinking for these writing exercises, that comes later. You have to know the basics before you can develop your own style.

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Fair enough.