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This study highlights the need for raising teacher's awareness of ER-based reading comprehension questions. This study was conducted to determine how frequently critical thinking is used in EFL reading comprehension contexts at the tertiary level in an Iranian University. To collect the data, the researchers observed all reading comprehension courses in one of the universities in Isfan Province. They recorded 30 percent of the total number of sessions using two mini-size MP4 wireless recorders during the spring semester. The findings suggested that the teachers focus on each CRQ type strongly influences student attention when reading different passages.

Alan Lu and William G thomass III are humanities chairs with a long involvement in digital issues who have experienced budget cuts in regards to digital technologies, which are driving changes in higher education. They believe humanities faculty members, chairs, and adminstrators right now have a choice. This choice consist of taking no systematic action on the digital humanites front, and to let the long term digital future build for them. The other option is for humanities faculty, chairs, and adminstrators to plan how to intergrate the digital humanities systematically throughout the different departments.

Like the open access websites reviewed in class, Sage is an open access journal that publishes original research and review articles in an interactive, and access format. These articles span the full spectrum of the social and behavorial sciences and the humanities. The articles are very informative and they can be utilized in classrooms so that students can better understand the purpose of digital humanities and why it can be affective in their everyday learning environment.