The Status and Role of Problem Solving -Based Learning in Electronic Textbooks

Many issues that people encounter in everyday life - from scientific problems tosocial, cultural, political, economic ones - in all aspects, is essentially a problemsolving situation. People’s involvement with such issues in life, work and research isundeniable and their problem solving skills must be developed. Thinking andproblem solving are issues that have been frequently discussed either deeply orsuperficially and sometimes with modifications in education. The main goal ofeducation is to help students become skillful problem-solvers so that they canprovide useful and original solutions for new problems. The emergence of newmethods of learning and teaching requires the researchers who try to promote elearningdevelop and compile e-books with ideal capabilities, and enrich the contentof these book regarding cognitive strategies of designing and writing subjectmaterials. Problem-solving method has a special importance among various methodsof teaching. If e-book designers pay special attention to problem solving processesand patterns, great steps in many aspects of development will be taken, becauseproblem solving-based learning provides a structure for discovery and helps learnersinternalize their learning and have a deeper understanding. While defining problem,problem solving patterns, and features of a high potential electronic book, this articlestudies the necessity of making e-books with high capabilities along with supportingvarious methods of teaching, especially, a problem solving-based teaching method.Moreover, the author mentions some of the previous researches on designing someparts of e-book that have been produced on the basis of the mentioned features,including providing a cooperative learning environment.