The parts that are like addressing the whole class are recordings or PDFs. The students view/read them on their own time. These still need to be prepared by someone who understands the material and knows how to teach, what kind of things do people find difficult, etc. Having the material be prepared by someone who understands it avoids crap like that course I had which stated that one of the principles of Labor Safety is “not all accidents can be avoided” (the principle is “all accidents can be avoided”).
The parts that are evaluating a student’s completed work are done on your own time, without the students there.
The parts that are working one-on-one would involve either digital art or a pair of webcams. You can’t touch the student but the student and you can see each other (for non-digital work) or see each other’s mouse and results (for digital work).
Corporate on line training / leaning course design and implementation
A whole lot of HSE / service quality and other training is done in large organizations by taking an on line course. In my experience these are usually terrible and barely qualify as awareness, let alone training, but I guess it ticks the HR ‘we trained them’ box. Please make it better. The key would be in understanding how adults learn and what sticks. Course design and implementation takes no interaction with the people taking the courses.
One of my pet peeves is radio DJs who refuse to keep their pie holes shut while a song is playing - who actually take some kind of perverse pride in their “ability” to fill every nanosecond of the intro and outro with inane chatter. I’d much prefer one who is mute.