When you want your students think more critically about the material being studied (e.g.,Apply, analyze, evaluate and create) active learning should become a more prominent feature of your pedagogy. Lecturing (whether asynchonous or synchronous) and other learning activities (e.g., videos, readings) should provide the foundation needed for engagement at this level.
This document provides some excellent strategies (and formative assessments) for helping students "draw connections among ideas" and "activities that use information in new situations."
