In the last decade, there has been an increase in the number and variety of online courses available to adults. While welcomed as a great opportunity by many students, other students see these courses as a poor substitute for classroom teaching. What are the advantages and disadvantages of studying an online course?
As more online courses are being offered to adults, different aspects of this learning medium have become apparent. Online courses offer students some advantages over studying in a classroom, however there are some definite drawbacks. The following essay deals with the advantages and disadvantages of online courses.
Online study provides the advantage of a flexible learning alternative for students. Using a computer with Internet access, students can study wherever they prefer. This could be at home, at work or even at a friend’s house, and at any time of the day. Students are also able to study at their own pace, depending on whether they find the material easy or difficult. As course material is available on their own computers, students can easily review material as many times as they wish. Furthermore, in the classroom, teachers may have little time to answer individual questions. In contrast, if students have any questions about their online study, they can contact their teacher using e-mail or bulletin boards.
Despite the advantages, online courses are not appropriate for all students and subjects due to the limitations of technology. If there is no access to computers and other expensive equipment, studying online is not an option for many people. In addition, lessons themselves are limited by the technology, in that it is difficult to provide practical experience online. For example, students learning chemistry would have no access to chemicals or laboratories needed to do experiments. They would only be able to study theory and simulations. Online students lack access to school facilities such as the library and the social aspects of face-to-face contact with teachers and classmates.
However, despite the disadvantages of online study, the benefits provide students with a valuable alternative to classroom learning.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, furthermore, however, if, may, so, for example, in addition, in contrast, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 1.0 7.30460921844 14% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 24.0651302605 58% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 41.998997996 95% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1582.0 1615.20841683 98% => OK
No of words: 290.0 315.596192385 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.45517241379 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12666770723 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91035299884 2.80592935109 104% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 176.041082164 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.548275862069 0.561755894193 98% => OK
syllable_count: 504.0 506.74238477 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 22.9220131123 49.4020404114 46% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 93.0588235294 106.682146367 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.0588235294 20.7667163134 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.11764705882 7.06120827912 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.189935792623 0.244688304435 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0660317965689 0.084324248473 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0524066424845 0.0667982634062 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.121416923302 0.151304729494 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0298430301749 0.056905535591 52% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.0946893788 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 50.2224549098 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.09 12.4159519038 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.27 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 78.4519038076 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 9.78957915832 66% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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