Since the pandemic began, online teaching has returned as the only viable option for most students and their teachers and professors. And most people are finding it a challenge, not an advantage.

“Over the last 20 years, education technology evangelists have claimed that we’re on the cusp of a sort of dramatic revolution, that new kinds of technology tools are going to completely transform the way we learn online. And that almost universally is not at all what we’ve seen,” Justin Reich told Nora Young, the host of Spark.