e-Learning and the Science of Instruction: Proven Guidelines for Consumers and Designers of Multimedia Learning

14.3. Building Critical Thinking Skills in the Workforce: Overview

Based on evidence to date, we recommend the following guidelines for building critical or creative thinking skills that will pay off in better workplace performance:

• Use domain-specific or job-specific cases as a context to teach problem-solving skills;

• Make thinking processes explicit through expert models and activities that require learners to articulate their mental processes; and

• Base the lesson on an analysis of job expert problem-solving processes.

THINKING SKILLS PRINCIPLE 1