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The problem with online classes

I have 48 hrs left to take the 10 answers that I got wrong on a test for Object Oriented Programming and explain why the wrong answers are wrong and the right answer is right. If I succed, I will get 1/2 points back for those questions. This will bring my grade for the test up to a C from an F.
I am taking 4 classes, teach part time, and work full time. I know, it is my choice, but as my wife said, that is a lot of work for 1/2 points. I will get 15 points back. It seems like if I knew why it was wrong in the first place, I would not have got it wrong.
I appreciate the efforts of the instructor to let us redeem ourselves. But it reinforces what I have begun to believe about almost all on-line classes. They are self taught. In a face to face class like I teach, a good instructor would say, 'you guys tanked and on some questions, what did I do wrong?" In online classes it was, "you did not study enough, here is more work for you to do."
I have no solution. I am just part of the problem.