Unlike many contemporary trends in online courseware, we do
not abandon conventional modes of instruction. Rather we
augment, extend, and refine what is traditional and what is
known to work. We are not advocates of extensive group
instruction nor of wholesale discovery learning though
there are places where each of these is important. Thus,
students will always find hardcopy texts and lecture notes
in Stellar School courses. They will always have video
instruction. They will still do some of their homework on
paper albeit to be subsequently scanned into the computers
for grading purposes.
While each course may have a primary textbook, the basic
documents that define the course are the lecture notes. The
lecture notes are presented with all of the Learning
Concept Statement explicitly presented in a tabular format.
When a student knows and understands all of the Learning
Concept Statement of a course, that student will likely
pass its examination.