Are there scientific books, articles, publications dedicated to interactive distance learning courses like codecademy, htmlacademy?

Question

Books

The theory of interactive courses, the history of appearance, the persons involved in the development, the current state are interesting.
There is nothing in Runet, I cannot find anything on this issue in foreign publications.
It is necessary for a review, as part of a scientific work.
There is a review itself, but the manual requires a theoretical justification with references to authoritative sources.

Answer 1

I don’t know about scientific ones, but on the medium you can find many detailed articles on the topic. For example: Reimagining Codecademy.com