Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia
An intervention program was devised to assist off-shore students develop critical thinking skills through blogs. On-shore students were assisted in setting up group blogs and off-shore students engaged in discussion with the issues raised. In this manner one academic taught 40 students face to face who then reached out in critical discussion with 70 other students to create a community of critical thinkers.
Keywords: critical thinking, off-shore students, blogs.