Each law school and individual lecturer will have to determine how courseware will best benefit their teaching strategy. The design of the courseware was deeply influenced by the need to ensure respect for pluralism as well as the need to enhance existing educational values. The design of pages was largely influenced by authors perceptions of educational needs. The learning environment contains devices such as an annotations facility to enable course teachers to integrate courseware into their existing teaching. Annotations also provide a mini-conferencing facility to enable students to interact with one another as well as with staff.
Extensive use is made of hypertext to enable students to make positive decisions about what to read.
The resourcebook consists of full text sources which they can use as an independent research resource. Finally, students can cut and paste material to a scrapbook and make their own notes to meet their learning needs. The Consortium has therefore attempted to produce a system which it is hoped will enhance contemporary educational values, it is an equal hope that users will use it in a way which will do so.