Online and other ICT based Training Tools for Problem solving Skills
Problem solving requires creative skills, critical thinking as well the ability to implement ideas and theories in practical ways. Moreover, interactive and self managed problem solving experiences promote students' motivation as expressed through the developmental progression of learners' metacognitive skills, such as self monitoring and self reinforcement. Effective learning based on constructivist didactics, encompassing self organized learning in combination with active and creative problem solving in collaborative settings, advances students' concomitant cognitive and meta cognitive processes. Hence, students' co construction of knowledge embodied in social dynamic learning environments, such as school based tasks leverage the semantic relationships rising from exercising, verifying and testing of knowledge through information sharing and discussion. Future studies should focus on designing interactive, adaptable, ill defined, real world learning environments to elicit students' cognitive and meta cognitive processes as a key factor for the effective training of problem solving skills.
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