A Smart Problem Solving Environment

Researchers of constructivist learning suggest that students should rather learn to solve real-world problems than artificial problems. This paper proposes a smart constructivist learning environment which provides real-world problems collected from crowd-sourcing problem-solution exchange platforms. In addition, this learning environment helps students solve real-world problems by retrieving relevant information on the Internet and by generating appropriate questions automatically. This learning environment is smart from three points of view. First, the problems to be solved by students are real-world problems. Second, the learning environment extracts relevant information available on the Internet to support problem solving. Third, the environment generates questions which help students to think about the problem to be solved.