A Knowledge-Based Platform for the Development of Critical Thinking Abilities
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Critical thinking is closely related to the main objectives in current educational reforms worldwide. It permits to develop cognitive skills of interpretation, analysis, evaluation, inference, explanation, and auto-regulation, which are essential in today’s job market. Critical thinking is being implemented in different e-learning platforms with outstanding results. This paper presents an ontology-based platform for the development of critical thinking in universities. The platform is divided into three main modules: user management, course management and learning resources repository. A case study in the Agrarian University of Ecuador is presented and the results obtained by the use of the developed platform are promising.
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