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League Bloggin': "Weaving Critical Thinking..."

Okay, first session at the League for Innovation conference, this one from Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College titled "Weaving Critical Thnking into Online Courses".

Okay, we wade through the cheeese-head jokes, a lot of background on WITC, their mission, their learning acadamies... still waiting 30 minutes in to get to the Critical Thinking.

The college does have a plan for every course to have online 'component' by 2006 (current system in Blackboard).

Developed a critical thinking curriculum through their Facilitating the Future Gathering, an online course for faculty.

Oh, apparently all the content is inside Blackboard, so nothing the world at large can benefit from. Damn CMS padlocked silos.

Used discussion board to start with introduction activities but lead to a group definition of critical thinking.

"Best Practices":
* Some classes have set up discussion boards where to get credit, posts had to be 150 words minimum."
* requires students log in 4 times per week (monitor user activity logs)

Next sessions look good-- oh that is right, because one is mine ;-)