"People can learn to be better problem solvers. This is the exciting premise underlying David Jonassen s highly readable book, Learning to Solve Problems. If you are interested in helping people become better problem solvers, then this book is for you. In Learning to Solve Problems, you will find an up-to-date and reader-friendly book on teaching problem solving, written by a world-renowned expert in instructional design."
—Richard E. Mayer, professor of psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara; and author, Multimedia Learning and Learning and Instruction

"This book is a major milestone in the quest for understanding how to teach problem solving. By focusing on the challenge of learning and instruction for each of the types of problem solving, together with a firm start on strategies for the assessment of problem solving, Jonassen makes this book valuable and unique."
—Rob Foshay, author, Writing Training Materials That Work