I suspect it depends on age and class.

My 5 year old struggled and needed a whole bunch of support.

my 8 year old was able to work on her own, but still didn't get anywhere near as good learning outcome as being in class.

Now, the reason why my kids didn't fail utterly, was because my wife wasn't working and could, just about support their learning. Until it sapped her will to live.

This is roughly analogous to junior employees. They need special attention, and providing that over remote is a challenge to scale. Not impossible, but a challenge.

You also need to factor in that Junior employees are more likely to have shit accommodation.

Yeah, we did remote kindergarten and it was basically a disaster. We were lucky that my wife could help, otherwise our kid would have learned nothing.

Your experience as a child learning from a laptop?

On that topic, no, I am referring to observing my own children learning from a laptop. I could not have been more skeptical of this approach at first. I was wrong - the approach has worked well so far.

EDIT: I definitely should have mentioned that my children are learning from a laptop WITH very close guidance from my wife who is raising them full-time and with intense dedication!

> EDIT: I definitely should have mentioned that my children are learning from a laptop WITH very close guidance from my wife who is raising them full-time and with intense dedication!

lol Pretty big caveat

>my children are learning from a laptop WITH very close guidance from my wife who is raising them full-time and with intense dedication!

In other words, they are not at all just learning from a laptop.

Sounds like your children are actually learning from your wife.

My experience is that unsupervised education is worthless.