Dear Log Moocs,
Every day, we’re flooded with information. Headlines, charts, social posts, AI-generated summaries, and opinions presented as facts. With so much coming at us, it’s easy to accept what we see at face value or tune out completely. However, strong thinking skills don’t come from ignoring the information around you or letting it simply pass by. To be an effective thinker, you learn how to question and analyze information.
Critical thinking, data literacy, and thoughtful use of AI are becoming essential skills for navigating work, learning, and everyday life. We want to share courses and series that help you sharpen your judgment, interpret data with confidence, and use AI as a tool to support clearer, more intentional thinking.
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Using AI to Strengthen Critical Thinking
Generative AI is transforming the way we process information, but it’s most powerful when combined with strong reasoning skills. Leveraging GenAI to Develop Critical Thinking Skills shows you how AI can support better thinking rather than replace it. You’ll learn a practical framework for using AI to unpack complex ideas, surface hidden assumptions, and explore multiple perspectives with greater clarity and insight.
This course helps you evaluate information more effectively across public and private sources, empowering you to make more informed decisions in both your professional and personal life.
Use AI to think more clearly, not just faster.
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Understanding Data and Building Authority
Data shapes the stories we’re told every day. Understanding Data: Navigating Statistics, Science, and AI is a three-course series designed to build data literacy without requiring math or programming skills.
You’ll learn how statistics can be misunderstood or misused, how scientific research is often misinterpreted, and how to engage more critically with narratives around data and AI. By the end of the course series, you’ll be better equipped to support your ideas with quality data and challenge claims that don’t hold up.
Build confidence in how you read, question, and use data.
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Making Data Analysis Accessible with AI
Advanced data analysis is no longer only the realm of specialists. AI-Powered Data Analysis: A Practical Introduction explores how tools like ChatGPT are making data analysis more accessible, while emphasizing the importance of asking the right questions and understanding the context.
This course takes a hands-on, practical approach to analyzing and visualizing data with AI, helping you avoid common pitfalls and think critically about results. You’ll even set yourself up for continued learning with a ready-to-use Python environment, and data sets you can showcase on a popular developer forum if you choose.
Learn how to analyze data effectively in an AI-powered world.
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Classic Critical Thinking for Modern Life
Long before AI entered our everyday lives, strong thinkers relied on core principles from statistics, probability, and psychology. Mindware: Critical Thinking for the Information Age brings these ideas together and demonstrates how they apply to real-world decisions, whether evaluating health claims or making smarter financial choices.
Through engaging, everyday examples, this course reveals why intuition can be misleading and how better thinking leads to better judgment at work and in life. It’s a timeless foundation for anyone looking to sharpen their reasoning in an information-heavy age.
Strengthen your thinking skills and make better decisions.
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