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Attend webinars with our internationally recognized Fellows and Scholars.
See below for upcoming webinars. Some are free to the general public, while others are exclusive to members of the Center for Critical Thinking Community Online. (If you are brand new, a 30-day free trial is available for this membership website.)
We offer three types of webinars:
1. Webinar Presentations: These are mainly presentations by our Fellows. At the end, attendees have the opportunity to type and submit their questions in text. Webcams are not required.
2. Webinar Q&A's: These are discussions facilitated by our Fellows. They may begin with a brief presentation, but will primarily revolve around participant questions. Webcams are required and must remain on throughout the session.
3. Webinar Workshops: These will involve a mix of presentations, interactive exercises, and time for participant questions. Webcams are required and must remain on throughout the session.
Typically, our webinar announcements provide optional activities for you to complete ahead of time in the Community Online. These will be relevant to the topic at hand; although the activities are not madatory, the new understandings you gain by completing them will help you to ask more refined questions at each webinar.
Please note that these sessions are recorded for later viewing by members of the Community Online, and some clips may be posted on other platforms.
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Led by Dr. Linda Elder
Saturday, September 19, 2026
4:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
(1:00 p.m. PDT)
Duration: 60 Minutes
This is an interactive online workshop in which participants, with Dr. Elder’s facilitation, will work as a group and/or in breakout rooms to explore and apply critical thinking concepts and processes.
Webcams are required and must remain on throughout the session.
We record webinar workshops for later viewing by members of The Center for Critical Thinking Community Online, and some clips may also be posted on other platforms.
Increasingly, the downward trend in high school graduates continuing on to college or university is becoming magnified. For those of us who value education, properly so-called, this is a frightening trend. But what are our students getting in colleges and universities when they do attend? Are they becoming open-minded, empathetic persons of integrity? Are they learning to achieve within their capacities while contributing to the good of others, and to the preservation of the earth and its creatures? Are they learning to distinguish ethics from other modes of reasoning, like those related to social conventions, ideologies, and taboos? Indeed, have the worthy goals described herein ever been a core purpose of higher education, broadly speaking?
Or is all of this a façade, with the real purpose of higher education being to serve the business community and other vested interests? Is its purpose for students, then – as most of them seem to assume – just to find “better” employment? How has chasing these purposes led us to this point in history, in which humanities departments and liberal-arts colleges are closing down, and enrollment across higher education is declining?
Given that the cultivation of fairminded critical reasoners is essential to the concept of education, how can the problem of influence by moneyed interests be resolved? Can we envision an educational system (higher education, K-12, or both) that does not fundamentally serve the narrow aims of powerful, self-serving groups? What should educational processes provide to students?
These and related questions will be discussed in this webinar workshop.
Note: Upon completing registration, the meeting link will be emailed to you. Please check your junk/spam folder if you do not see the email within ten minutes of registering.
Led by Dr. Gerald Nosich
6:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
(3:00 p.m. PDT)
Webcams are required and must remain on throughout the session.
We record webinar Q&A's for later viewing by members of The Center for Critical Thinking Community Online, and some clips may also be posted on other platforms.
What are your questions?
Together we ponder or answer them.
In our regular question-and-answer webinars, led by one of our Fellows or Scholars, we open the floor to your questions about critical thinking and its unlimited applications to human life. Join us in this forum where you can ask deep and probing questions as well as basic questions of clarification on the theory and application of critical thinking. Some questions we will be able to answer easily; those that do not lend themselves to definitive answers, we will explore with you.
Thinking is driven by questions. The quality of your thinking is determined by the quality of the questions you ask. Fruitful questions, when properly addressed, lead to knowledge. Knowledge leads to important understandings. Important understandings, when actively employed by the mind, can lead to increasingly more fulfilling, satisfying, and joyful lives.
The quality of the questions you ask and pursue every day - at work or in personal life - largely determines the quality of your life.
Similarly, in instruction, the quality of student learning can be largely captured in the questions students ask in our classes and as they go out into the world (not on how much information they have memorized).
Despite these insights, emphasis on questions in thinking is mainly missing from human conversations, relationships, and societies. The role of questions in thinking is rarely discussed in human life. Theory about questions is still in its infancy. While Socrates believed the most effective way to teach was through questioning, 2,400 years later, his insights seem to be little valued. Each of us needs to improve our ability to ask productive and rewarding questions.
Bring your questions on critical thinking to this session, whatever they may be.
Led by Dr. Gerald Nosich
Recording Available Soon
7:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
(4:00 p.m. PDT)
Webcams are required and must remain on throughout the session.
We record webinar Q&A's for later viewing by members of The Center for Critical Thinking Community Online, and some clips may also be posted on other platforms.
What are your questions?
Together we ponder or answer them.
In our regular question-and-answer webinars, led by one of our Fellows or Scholars, we open the floor to your questions about critical thinking and its unlimited applications to human life. Join us in this forum where you can ask deep and probing questions as well as basic questions of clarification on the theory and application of critical thinking. Some questions we will be able to answer easily; those that do not lend themselves to definitive answers, we will explore with you.
Thinking is driven by questions. The quality of your thinking is determined by the quality of the questions you ask. Fruitful questions, when properly addressed, lead to knowledge. Knowledge leads to important understandings. Important understandings, when actively employed by the mind, can lead to increasingly more fulfilling, satisfying, and joyful lives.
The quality of the questions you ask and pursue every day - at work or in personal life - largely determines the quality of your life.
Similarly, in instruction, the quality of student learning can be largely captured in the questions students ask in our classes and as they go out into the world (not on how much information they have memorized).
Despite these insights, emphasis on questions in thinking is mainly missing from human conversations, relationships, and societies. The role of questions in thinking is rarely discussed in human life. Theory about questions is still in its infancy. While Socrates believed the most effective way to teach was through questioning, 2,400 years later, his insights seem to be little valued. Each of us needs to improve our ability to ask productive and rewarding questions.
Bring your questions on critical thinking to this session, whatever they may be.
Led by Dr. Linda Elder
Thursday, February 5, 2026
4:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time
(1:00 p.m. PST)
Duration: 60 Minutes
This is an interactive online workshop in which participants, with Dr. Elder’s facilitation, will work as a group or in breakout rooms to explore and apply critical thinking concepts and processes.
Webcams are required and must remain on throughout the session.
We record webinar workshops for later viewing by members of The Center for Critical Thinking Community Online, and some clips may also be posted on other platforms.
Social media fosters many, and ever-increasing, damaging realities and harsh conditions that humans choose to participate in. These include the following:
1. It is now the norm for people to encounter and frequent specialized, biased social media websites, applications, groups, pages, and discussions that reinforce certain worldviews and presuppositions with little or no regard for accuracy, completeness, breadth, or other reasonable intellectual standards.
2. Many people now consume “news” and other “information” primarily through free-for-all social media platforms which are, at best, mixing pots of fact and falsity, of well-reasoned and unreasonable ideas, with no clear delineation between irrational gibberish and legitimate journalism or other expertise.
3. Many people are still unaware of the prevalence of false information and blatant propaganda throughout social media, and many are similarly unable to distinguish between fact and commentary.
4. Social media is engineered to beget severe addiction and, by implication, its attendant cognitive and behavioral dependencies and dysfunctionalities.
This webinar workshop will help participants actively explore the deleterious effects of social media, as well as how they can fully control their engagement with it through the concepts and tools of critical thinking.
To prepare for this webinar, we recommend completing as many of the following activities as you can beforehand. These require an account in The Center for Critical Thinking Community Online, where a 30-day free trial is available for new users. You are not required to complete the activities to join the webinar workshop, but doing so can be highly useful for your and others’ learning.
1. Read the Community Online’s partial copy of Fact Over Fake: A Critical Thinker’s Guide to Media Bias and Political Propaganda. While much of this publication deals with mass media more generally, consider how its information, concepts, and principles relate to social media in particular.
2. For each of the passages dealing specifically with social media on pages 13-16 of Fact Over Fake: A Critical Thinker’s Guide to Media Bias and Political Propaganda, perform the following exercises in writing:
a. State in your own words what the passage is saying.
b. Give examples from your own life of what the passage is saying.
c. Think of at least one metaphor that illustrates what the passage is saying.
