Where did these stories come from? The development team behind the Liberated Learner Project wanted to find out just what students need to figure out in order to become more independent online learners. So we invited learners to share the “wicked problems” that they had faced in their learning careers. Wicked problems are those tricky ones that maybe don’t have a clear cause nor an easy solution. They can come from any number of the skill areas that we hope to help you with in the Liberated Learner program: Being a learner (obviously), but also being a collaborator, a navigator and having a handle on technology. We took the stories that all these learners told us about and used them to tell us what you may want to learn to do in order to become a “Liberated Learner”. In other words, to help you become a confident and independent online learner.