A Web-Based Platform for Competence Development in PBL Supervision

In this article, the authors describe the development of, and ongoing experiences with, PBL Exchange, a web-platform whose goal is to facilitate the transfer and development of knowledge and skills within the field of PBL project supervision by means of a web-based crowdsourcing approach that makes it easy to exchange and discuss one’s specific problems and experience with project supervision. PBL Exchange is a closed expert crowdsourcing forum where experts are guiding other experts towards solving the problems that they have: The users of the system are project supervisors at Aalborg University. A major conclusion is the community building has been a challenge, and this article describes ongoing efforts to address this.