Modern, knowledge-oriented societies bring with them the need for
lifelong learning. The ever increasing pace of scientifi c and technological
progress makes concrete memorized facts and procedures quickly obsolete
in many areas of human professional and personal activities. It is, therefore,
critically important to realign educational systems in such a way as to provide
long-term benefi ts to learners by teaching them deeper underlying concepts,
instead of shallow fi nal outcomes of those concepts, to bolster creativity, critical
thinking and expressive abilities (OECD/CERI, 2008). Eff ectively, students
should be taught fundamental principles of scientifi c reasoning, so that
they can continue learning individually or in collaboration, throughout their
active lives, long after they have graduated from their formal education. Selfregulated
learning, with its focus on learner-oriented refl ective thinking and
performances in problem solving, is regarded as one of the most important
skills needed for lifelong learning (Ifenthaler, 2012).