Decius comments on The Centre for Applied Rationality: a year later from a (somewhat) outside perspective - Less Wrong
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"Doing the exercise" is not something that the student does alone, with the result compared to the answer key in the teacher's edition textbook. To perform the exercises, the student needs other people with enough understanding of the subject to provide short-cycle feedback, and I don't know anyone who can do that for themselves.
This is basically our problem. We could definitely teach the theory of, say, our Installing Habits class remotely, but we spend a lot of it troubleshooting people's actual plans for setting up new habits and giving rapid, personalized feedback, and it'd be quite hard to build that into automated exercises.