Universities and colleges are now offering qualifications through distance learning from the Internet rather than teachers in the classroom. Do you think the advantages of this development overweight the disadvantages?

Learning from online courses to get qualifications is now becoming more and more common for young people and it is also approved by most universities and colleges. Going to the classrooms to listen to the teachers’ class seems untoward and ueseless compared with the former so that I think it will wear on.

Distance learning also have its negative aspects. Without excellent regulatory system, students can have more chances to cheat online, so the honesty can not be guranteed. This may cause the qualifications make no sense, and perhaps almost everyone can finish the university studies. This is the most significant and fundamental problem. Also by distance learning, teachers can not effectively inspect the students' course progress, or give them some useful and essential guidance and encouragement. Students also are very confused by their problems which are unable to be solved. If they have questions on the course, it may have a great influence on the following studying contents .

But I think the strong points are overweight the weak points. Online courses means that students can study at home, and can save much time that used to be wasted in traffic. It is also more convenient, because the time for study is more flexible and even can be anytime at anyplace. A survey shows that people spend more than one hour on the way to school or office on average nowadays, so studying on the Internet is undoubted a available solution. This way can also save money. A teacher may teaching thousands of students at the same time, so everyone only needs to afford a little money. More people are accessible to farther education than before.

In conclusion, distance learning is a huge reform and progress in the field of education. I think this trend will keep on developing and become more and more excellent. Maybe one day there will not be any schools.

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Average: 7.8 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, so, i think, in conclusion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 7.85571142285 178% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 10.4138276553 154% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 41.998997996 76% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1565.0 1615.20841683 97% => OK
No of words: 314.0 315.596192385 99% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98407643312 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20951839842 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73011074155 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 176.041082164 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.566878980892 0.561755894193 101% => OK
syllable_count: 496.8 506.74238477 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 16.0721442886 118% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.0210404765 49.4020404114 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.3684210526 106.682146367 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.5263157895 20.7667163134 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.42105263158 7.06120827912 34% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
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: 0.159051303684 0.244688304435 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0507939977307 0.084324248473 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0420607190281 0.0667982634062 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107004055829 0.151304729494 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0358969054887 0.056905535591 63% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.3 13.0946893788 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 50.2224549098 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.3001002004 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.31 12.4159519038 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.4 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 78.4519038076 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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