Institutions of higher learning were rapidly made to change from in-person to fully online learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This change posed an inherent problem in successfully engaging students in learning in a remote learning environment. Thus, the study aims to enhance students' problem-solving skills through self-directed learning in a…

This study is a third in a series of studies that examined students' information seeking and problem solving behaviors while interacting with one of two types of web-based representations of an ill-structured instructional design case: hierarchical (tree-like) and heterarchical (network-like). A Java program was used to track students' hypermedia…