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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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We would like to thank to the Agrarian University of Ecuador that supported this project.

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  1. Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Computer Science Department, Agrarian University of Ecuador, Av. 25 de Julio y Pio Jaramillo, P.O. BOX 09-04-100, Guayaquil, Ecuador

    Carlota Delgado-Vera, Maritza Aguirre-Munizaga, Evelyn Solis-Avíles, Andrea Sinche & Néstor Vera-Lucio

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  1. Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain

    Rafael Valencia-García

  2. Universidad Agraria del Ecuador, Guayaquil, Ecuador

    Katty Lagos-Ortiz

  3. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain

    Gema Alcaraz-Mármol

  4. Universidad Agraria del Ecuador, Guayaquil, Ecuador

    Javier del Cioppo

  5. Universidad Agraria del Ecuador, Guayaquil, Ecuador

    Nestor Vera-Lucio

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Delgado-Vera, C., Aguirre-Munizaga, M., Solis-Avíles, E., Sinche, A., Vera-Lucio, N. (2016). A Knowledge-Based Platform for the Development of Critical Thinking Abilities. In: Valencia-García, R., Lagos-Ortiz, K., Alcaraz-Mármol, G., del Cioppo, J., Vera-Lucio, N. (eds) Technologies and Innovation. CITI 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 658. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48024-4_1

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