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Detail	Mindware: Critical Thinking	Digital Thinking Tools for Better Decisions
Provider	University of Michigan	The Open University
Our rating	3.5	4.2
Cost	About A$84 a month	Free
Time	10 hours	24 hours
Level	Beginner	Beginner
Credential	certificate of completion (paid (Coursera enrolment or Coursera Plus))	digital badge (Credly etc) (free)
Open to	Worldwide	Worldwide
Free in	Not stated	Worldwide
Content written for	United States	Any country
Summary	Psychologist Richard Nisbett teaches the everyday statistics, logic and awareness of bias needed to think clearly about evidence. Well suited to judging AI outputs, data claims and business decisions with a sceptical eye.	An eight-session course on using digital tools, from spreadsheets to argument maps, to reason more clearly and make better choices. It ends by linking these thinking tools to modern AI. Completion earns an Open University badge and 24 CPD points.
Objectives	Apply sound decision methods to work and life choices Recognise common cognitive biases and reasoning errors Judge probability and risk more accurately Tell correlation from causation and read experiments properly Use logic and dialectical reasoning to weigh arguments	Explain how digital tools extend human thinking Find and assess information more effectively Use spreadsheets and set reasoning to test ideas Build argument maps to lay out a case and spot weak points Discuss where thinking tools are heading as AI develops
Things to know	Only the first module is free since Coursera ended audit in August 2025 US-centric examples	Badge requires sign-up and passing the quizzes Last updated April 2020, so the AI session predates current generative AI tools CPD points are UK CPD Standards Office points; check whether your Australian professional body accepts them
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