Critical is a great way to empower students to promote responsibility of learning. Discussion boards and group work is great but still lack the human interaction factor. I like the idea of group work but some how the online group discussion is lost on me. I feel that participation is not as productive as F2F. However, there are pros & cons to online discussion. By dictating specific parameters, online learners could have more freedom to complete the assignments assuming that time management is successful. Often time, online learners lack time management due to the fact the assumption of "too much" time left to complete an assignment. I feel for younger adults, the responsibilites of critical thinking and online discussion lack motivation vs the adult learners for the same subject matter.
