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The article discusses the use of the Visual Interactive Decision Modeling (VIDEMO) for problem solving in education. Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, launched the first European educational program in MS/OR-based policy analysis in 1992. The program was established within the university's new School of Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis, and Management. The school based the program on developments in three areas: policy analysis, OR/MS theory, and information systems. Developing the ability to study complex policy problems requires knowledge of these three areas. VIDEMO help students learn modeling skills at the intersection of the three domains. VIDEMO is intended to provide an integrated approach with respect to: Problem perception via defining the six basic elements that serve as the modeling blocks for decision modeling; OR/MS modeling via a three-step analytic modeling process; Information systems via a hypermedia environment that allows the integration of conceptual modeling and OR/MS tools.