Khan Academy launches Khan World School online high school
Very favorable comments all around from the very online crowd who comments here.  I’m much more skeptical.<p>I have no doubt this will work well for some students, but as someone who taught online for the better part of two years I can say with <i>certainty</i> that the experience is very different and (for the wide majority of students) <i>worse</i> than being in person.<p>My colleagues and I can attest to both general learning loss (ie., forgetting specific subject matter information) <i>and</i> a loss of broader “studying skills” (ie., coming to class and doing homework) after the pandemic.<p>In intro classes in our department, mean grades have been a whole standard deviation lower than the long run pre-pandemic average.  That’s a huge effect!<p>This is also not just specific to our department or university but has been written about widely in the higher ed press.<p>People have been confidently predicting that online education “is the future” since the 1990’s.  IMO the lesson of the pandemic is “no it’s not and it’s never going to be.”<p>If online works for you, awesome.  Enjoy!   There are great resources out there.   But I don’t think you are in the majority.