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.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 certainty that the experience is very different and (for the wide majority of students) worse than being in person.My colleagues and I can attest to both general learning loss (ie., forgetting specific subject matter information) and a loss of broader “studying skills” (ie., coming to class and doing homework) after the pandemic.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!This is also not just specific to our department or university but has been written about widely in the higher ed press.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.”If online works for you, awesome.  Enjoy!   There are great resources out there.   But I don’t think you are in the majority.