Students are more independent in an online course. Students talk more online. Students write more online. Critical thinking skills. Forced to do more analyzing and synthesizing online.
Students are more active in the learning process online.
I talked to each of them individually more often in the online course than in a classroom course. I don't talk about art as much in the online course as I do in the classroom. More short pieces in class 2-3 minute papers focused on a very specific aspect of the reading. More choice to assignments. Shift more responsibility to them for their own learning with structural changes I facilitate their work.