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Custom Online Intensive Workshops and Short Courses for Professional Development


Computer UsersThe Foundation for Critical Thinking offers customized online intensive workshops as well as twelve-week online training programs (with live meetings every other week) on critical thinking in a multitude of topics, enabling us to custom-design a learning experience for your institution based on your needs and goals.

In these programs, participants will interact with each other and engage in activities through the Center for Critical Thinking Community Online (our membership community). See our workshop descriptions for some of the possible topics we can cover in a workshop or course.

Woman on TabletParticipants will be given critical thinking assignments focused on reading, watching videos, and writing short papers relevant to their work. We will host a live online meeting each week where all participants can interact with our instructor. We will work with your institution to deliver instruction focused on your immediate needs and purposes.

We can arrange individual customized workshops, a twelve-week program, or both. Please contact Ms. Lisa Sabend at lisa@criticalthinking.org for more information or to talk with one of our Scholars about these direct learning opportunities.



Online Intensive Workshops & Short Courses Utilize the

Community for Critical Thinking Online . . .










. . . Featuring Dozens of Publications, a Study Group Platform,

& Nearly 100 Activities!




Please do not pass this message by.

CRITICAL THINKING IS AT RISK.

Here are some of the big reasons why:

  1. Many people believe that critical thinking should be free and that scholars qualified to teach critical thinking should do so for free. Accordingly, they do not think they should have to pay for critical thinking textbooks, courses, or other resources when there is "so much free material online" - despite how erroneous that material may be.
  2. There are many misguided academicians, and some outright charlatans, pushing forth and capitalizing on a pseudo-, partial, or otherwise impoverished concept of critical thinking.
  3. Little to no funding is designated for critical thinking professional development in schools, colleges, or universities, despite the lip service widely given to critical thinking (as is frequently found in mission statements).
  4. Most people, including faculty, think they already know what critical thinking is, despite how few have studied it to any significant degree, and despite how few can articulate a coherent, accurate, and sufficiently deep explanation of it.
  5. People rarely exhibit the necessary level of discipline to study and use critical thinking for reaching higher levels of self-actualization. In part, this is due to wasting intellectual and emotional energy on fruitless electronic entertainment designed to be addictive and profitable rather than educational and uplifting.
  6. On the whole, fairminded critical thinking is neither understood, fostered, nor valued in educational institutions or societies.
  7. People are increasingly able to cluster themselves with others of like mind through alluring internet platforms that enable them to validate one another's thinking - even when their reasoning is nonsensical, lopsided, prejudiced, or even dangerous.
  8. Critical thinking does not yet hold an independent place in academia. Instead, "critical thinking" is continually being "defined" and redefined according to any academic area or instructor that, claiming (frequently unsupported) expertise, steps forward to teach it.

As you see, increasingly powerful trends against the teaching, learning, and practice of critical thinking entail extraordinary challenges to our mission. To continue our work, we must now rely upon your financial support. If critical thinking matters to you, please click here to contribute what you can today.

WE NEED YOUR HELP TO CONTINUE OUR WORK.

Thank you for your support of ethical critical thinking.