Critical Thinking in Global Challenges

Critical Thinking in Global Challenges
These videos were created for our short online course, Critical Thinking in Global Challenges. This course ran from 2013 to 2014 on Coursera. While the full content of the course is no longer available, we have made the videos from the course free and open so you can work through the resources in your own time.

This collection of high-quality media resources has been made available under Creative Commons licence for sharing, reuse and remixing.

Please note that the videos are representative of the views and research at the time of recording.

The videos in this playlist will give you the opportunity to better understand what critical thinking is, and to practice and enhance your critical thinking skills. To do so, we will use the context of some important global challenges that affect us all, and to which we have no clear “correct” solutions: for example, the risk and spread of serious infectious diseases in epidemics in modern societies, the implications of increasing human population on global resources, energy, environment and climate, and the challenges of human health and wellbeing in the modern world. Possible solutions to global issues such as these are hotly debated, and give the perfect setting to practice recognizing and evaluating facts, ideas, opinions and arguments.

From the University of Edinburgh with Professor Mayank Dutia and Dr Celine Caquineau
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