The assignments and evaluation criteria are explained on this page. With technologies like hypermedia , we aren't necessarily locked into academic tradition. We can experiment. And one of the ways we can do this is by making the assignments more interactive and nonlinear. Some people are verbal learners, while others are visual.
Some students are better suited to the humanities, while others relate better to the sciences.
No particular approach necessarily has to be privileged. Choose the kind of assignment that is best for you and your learning style, what you will get the most out of. It's important that we build our own self-regulating Net community. Online Discussion and Class Participation is discussed more fully on its own page. The Net largely has done away with the editor or gatekeeper.