Critical Thinking: Web Sites

This is a directory of online sources that can be useful in the study and teaching of critical thinking. Austhink is an Australian software company, founded by Dr. Tim van Gelder and his colleagues at The University of Melbourne. Dr. Gelder has been called an expert in critical thinking.

Though Vanderbilt has closed its Center for Ethics (due to budget cuts) the Center's site is still available and includes links to case studies in a variety of areas: Business, Education, Medicine, Law, Science, Engineering, the Environment, as well as links to other sites for further resources and case studies (Religion, Military Science, etc.).

Sponsors the International Critical Thinking Conference, billed as "the World's Oldest Conference on Critical Thinking," the Foundation and Center for Critical Thinking's mission is to provide education to primary schools through colleges by presenting publications, conferences, workshops and professional development programs. Emphasis is on instructional strategies, Socratic questioning, critical reading/writing, higher order thinking, assessment, research, quality enhancement and standards.

"This educational web site provides over 100 free online tutorials on critical thinking, logic, scientific reasoning, creativity, and other aspects of thinking skills." There are 13 main modules ranging from basic skills to scientific reasoning, values and morality, and statistics. The co-collaborators on this project are from the University of Hong Kong and the Baptist University of Hong Kong.

" ... (I)s intended to provide resources and updates on current literature, both popular and professional, that relates to ethics" for teachers and students. Unfortunately, a number of the resource links were dead links at last check, and it appears the site has not seen much updating in the last ten years; however, there is still useful information available for the study of ethics.