Tempering the Rise of the Machines

[Posteritatis]

5. I'd imagine part of the problem is that they're hard to design properly

I'll bet a large chunk of online courses - especially job-related training ones like what you're alluding to - don't exactly have a lot of input from people who actually get different approaches to education.

A course put together because some middle-to-senior manager has Imposed Standards that someone under them Must Adhere To Precisely is gonna have some problems, especially if they're putting it together that way in part because some company selling the course software or format has pitched it to them.

Most online classes/training sessions I've seen are those types and were complete disasters, but I've also seen a few others - either less formal ones more oriented towards hobbies, or academic ones where the instructor actually had the time and space to prepare materials - that were night-and-day different.