Development of an e-learning website to teach critical-thinking skills
In brief
Critical Thinking Cap (CTC) is an e‑learning website offering informal lessons and activities on discerning, developing, and deploying critical thinking skills. It will guide adult learners through a fun, casual critical-thinking course inspired by the principles of microlearning.
CTC will provide learners an inviting and engaging space to learn and practice critical thinking skills at their own pace at their convenience, without having to enroll in a weighty, bland, or expensive college course.
Visit the website at https://www.criticalthinkingcap.com/.
Below you will find the project’s original proposal document, a link to the project’s blog, and some screenshots of the website.
Skills and technologies applied
Brand development • Branding • Content management systems (CMS) • Copyediting • Copywriting • Curation • Document design • Documentation • E-learning • Engaging humor • HTML & CSS • Illustrator • Image curation • Information curation • Information design • Instructional design • LearnDash LMS plug-in • Learning management systems (LMS) • Lesson development • Logo design • Project presentation • Technical writing • Typography • Web development • WordPress • Writing and editing
The website was built using WordPress and the LearnDash LMS plug-in.
CTC was a capstone project for the Digital Media Design graduate (master’s) program at Harvard Extension School. It continues to be a work in progress.
Visit Project notes: Critical Thinking Cap (All notes technical, creative, administrative, etc.)
View / download the proposal (PDF): Contains project goals, target audience, personae, empathy maps, user journeys, competitor reviews, technology requirements, etc.
A few key screenshots
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Front page
Main lesson page for the lesson “How to take this course.”
“Course navigation” topic page for the lesson “How to take this course.”
Main lesson page for the lesson “Introduction to Arguments.”
Topic page for the topic “Building blocks of arguments.”
The About page.