ABSTRACT
This chapter will raise questions for the reader relating to design choices regarding PBLonline and offer the reader ways of making informed design decisions. It begins by exploring some of the issues that need to be considered when designing PBLonline, from a technological perspective rather than a pedagogical one. By starting with what it is we want students to learn, it is argued that we can focus on the students’ experience rather than the notion of content coverage. It is important too to move away from the idea of PBLonline being a course that uses knowledge repository. Instead this chapter will suggest, by using a design scheme that focuses on learning intentions, assessment and the development of capability, that the kinds of PBLonline on offer can focus on liquid learning and the ability of students to develop judgments, criticality and the ability to interrogate texts.
