Critical thinking is an important and vital topic in modern education.  All educators are interested in teaching critical thinking to their students and many academic departments hope that its instructors will become informed about the strategy of teaching critical thinking skills, identify areas in one’s courses as the proper place to emphasize and teach critical [...]

     In March, 2000 the National Education Association outlined twenty-four benchmarks or measures of quality for distance learning cources and programs as part of its Quality on the Line report. The authors of the report developed six tenets of distance learning course development that set minimum standards for facilitating online instruction. The ability to meet [...]