Technologies and Innovation

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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