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Critical Thinking the ability to teach critical thinking to students in an Online Distance Learning Class by using the Socratic questioning techniques. The study was performed over two sixteen week, fall and spring semesters on the same class with the same questions. The studies focus was to use discussion forums, such as interactive bulletin boards, or the UA D2L discussion boards. The studies goals were to see if 1) students critical thinking skills would improve with Socratic questioning guided by the instructor during the use of discussion boards, 2) if after being taught the model of Socratic questioning would students still maintain their critical thinking skills on their own. This study was regarded as an important issue promoting the development of critical thinking skills in a distance learning environment. This allowed for further development and courseware design of distance learning models to promote critical thinking skills into the curriculum of Online classes. The full article can be read here [|//**socratic-questioning-to**//]