Critical Thinking in Global Challenges
The videos in this open resource will give you the opportunity to better understand what critical thinking is, and to practice and enhance your critical thinking skills.
To do so, we will use the context of some important global challenges that affect us all, and to which we have no clear “correct” solutions, for example:
- the risk and spread of serious infectious diseases in epidemics in modern societies
- the implications of increasing human population on global resources, energy, environment and climate
- the challenges of human health and wellbeing in the modern world.
Possible solutions to global issues such as these are hotly debated, and give the perfect setting to practice recognizing and evaluating facts, ideas, opinions and arguments.
These videos are free open resources originally created for the short course, Critical Thinking in Global Challenges. Although the course is not currently running, you can still work through the content in your own time using the videos in this open resource.
This resource is hosted on the University's Media Hopper channel.
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Critical Thinking in Global Challenges
These videos formed part of a course run by Professor Mayank Dutia and Dr Celine Caquineau from the School of Biomedical Sciences, which aimed to provide the opportunity to better understand what critical thinking is, and to practice and enhance critical thinking skills. The course used the context of some important global challenges that affect us all, and to which we have no clear “correct” solutions: for example, the risk and spread of serious infectious diseases in epidemics in modern societies, the implications of increasing human population on global resources, energy, environment and climate, and the challenges of human health and wellbeing in the modern world. Possible solutions to global issues such as these are hotly debated, and give the perfect setting to practice recognizing and evaluating facts, ideas, opinions and arguments.
These videos can me downloaded from Media Hopper Create .
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Critical thinking in global challenges - free coursera class.
"develop and enhance your ability to think critically, assess information and develop reasoned arguments in the context of the global challenges facing society today."
starts 28 January 2013
cf https://www.coursera.org/course/criticalthinking
see also http://lesswrong.com/lw/dni/a_beginners_guide_to_irrational_behavior_free/ and http://lesswrong.com/lw/d3w/coursera_behavioural_neurology_course/
I'm seriously confused about the downvoting. Would somebody who downvoted either of the Coursera posts explain their thinking?
They're bare links-and-quotes. At least one original paragraph about why to bother linking something is called for.
They were originally bare links and posted in Main. I've now reversed to an upvote.
explained in http://lesswrong.com/lw/dni/a_beginners_guide_to_irrational_behavior_free/
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