Stephen Downes has published links to three new articles that describe the role of critical thinking, and how critical thinking can be implemented into online education.

Critical Thinking

“is a term used to refer to those kinds of mental activity that are clear, precise, and purposeful.

“It is typically associated with solving complex real world problems, generating multiple (or creative) solutions to a problem, drawing inferences, synthesizing and integrating information, distinguishing between fact and opinion, or estimating potential outcomes, but it can also refer to the process of evaluating the quality of one’s own thinking.”

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