What are the advantages and disadvantages of distance learning?
Nowadays, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the world is witnessing a rapid digital transformation more than ever. Correspondingly, distance learning has been applied to most countries or areas in all levels of education to make sure that students can learn virtually while being safe at home. However, everything has its strengths and limitations, so does distance learning.
On the one hand, apart from preventing students from being infected by COVID-19 viruses, distance learning can help them to save some additional costs. Specifically, since students do not have to attend lectures in classes or at campuses, they neither pay for transportation or accommodation costs. Moreover, distance learning means students can attend more courses in other countries without paying extra tuition fees if they have connections with other schools overseas. Additionally, students can be more active and flexible as they can study anywhere, like at home, in the library, in a study cafe. This also reduces some stress for students because there is no need to worry about traffic jams or other external factors that can make them late.
On the other hand, as students cannot have face-to-face interactions with their professors, distance learning may restrict effective communication, leading to students not understanding the lecture clearly and absorbing knowledge entirely. Besides, it requires a quite high level of self-discipline because students can get distracted easily by social media or their families. Furthermore, despite the development of society and the internet, many areas can still not connect to that worldwide network. Plus, many families cannot afford an electronic device to access the internet, making distance learning impossible for many students. Last but not least, students may lose their chances to experience student life due to the lack of opportunities to participate in extracurricular activities, providing a number of soft skills and connections, which are extremely important for students to manage their life later on.
In conclusion, distance-learning may have both pros and cons; therefore, understanding those sides will help institutes and students create strategies for more effective delivery of the lectures, ensuring an uninterrupted learning journey.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, furthermore, however, if, may, moreover, so, still, therefore, while, apart from, in conclusion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 13.1623246493 53% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 7.85571142285 191% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 41.998997996 105% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 8.3376753507 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1953.0 1615.20841683 121% => OK
No of words: 343.0 315.596192385 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.69387755102 5.12529762239 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30351707066 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.14921170465 2.80592935109 112% => OK
Unique words: 213.0 176.041082164 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.620991253644 0.561755894193 111% => OK
syllable_count: 599.4 506.74238477 118% => 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: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.76152304609 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.7905992849 49.4020404114 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.5 106.682146367 131% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.5 20.7667163134 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.57142857143 7.06120827912 136% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.144821756441 0.244688304435 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0582242638607 0.084324248473 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0611514986732 0.0667982634062 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.113036431301 0.151304729494 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0354885722641 0.056905535591 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.6 13.0946893788 134% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 50.2224549098 77% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.02 12.4159519038 129% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.57 8.58950901804 111% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 78.4519038076 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.