Many universities now offer academic courses over the Internet. However, some people still prefer learning in traditional classrooms. Which do you think is better? Explain why.

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Many universities now offer academic courses over the Internet. However, some people still prefer learning in traditional classrooms. Which do you think is better? Explain why.

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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 333.0 444.711560045 75% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 100.0 116.580246914 86% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 3.33 3.81502700369 87% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.16227766017 3.28032121604 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.66766303551 1.8723322822 89% => OK
Unique words: 66.0 76.076318743 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.66 0.655143326166 101% => OK
Syllable count: 116.1 141.574747475 82% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0228733525305 0.0738818816272 31% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 50.0 60.3232687746 83% => OK
STD paragraph length: 5.0 17.3634065801 29% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 23.045 22.9064221017 101% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 0.885 6.49597621602 14% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 49.0 31.1548821549 157% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.04081632653 4.0588447711 50% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.48405379287 3.18357895611 47% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 0.895918367347 1.46810986539 61% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.545751376329 1.01537252472 54% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 50.0 28.6644219978 174% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 12.25 5.28593714927 232% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.245 0.187982170178 130% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.193589772457 0.154715141812 125% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 30.88 35.408047138 87% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.3088 0.306236595465 101% => OK
STD word duration: 0.165077436375 0.198589292138 83% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 6.3164983165 95% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.44 5.14435465769 86% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.44 2.80480359147 51% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 46.09 45.0716498316 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.02422222222 1.00159221848 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 1.08483402039 0.637764685501 170% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.16966804079 2.58495923209 84% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.43198090692 1.68816559523 85% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.13730569948 2.15290372801 99% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.3722479 0.343871460585 108% => OK

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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.