A team at UC-Davis studied the effectiveness of an online ALEKS Prep class: "On nearly every component of motivation and STEM identity, students in the online summer preparatory course (SP-Chem) responded with higher values of motivation and STEM identity than students who took the traditional WLD-41C course."
Derek Dockter, Catherine Uvarov, Alberto Guzman-Alvarez , Marco Molinaro
Online Approaches to Chemical Education, ACS Symposium Series, Vol 1261; Chapter 2, pp 7–33