Nowadays, with the support of numerous technological advancements, educational institutions such as universities and colleges are able to provide their students with online courses which can be attended from a distance. This fires up the dispute over the positive and negative impacts of a qualification obtained online. While I accept that distance learning can be beneficial in some ways, it usually exerts detrimental effects on learners.
On the one hand, distance learning is strongly advocated for several reasons. One of the major advantages is that it produces the ready access to the world of knowledge for people of all classes and ages. Thanks to various online courses, there is an increasing number of mature students who are allowed to pursue tertiary education, resulting in better employment possibilities in their future. In addition, without additional expenses on educational facilities such as classroom or teaching equipment, universities and colleges could provide their courses of studies at a significantly lower price than previously. This could lead to more educational opportunities for the general population, which leads to the development in economic and social aspects of the society.
On the other hand, the pursuit of online education is unattractive to some for a number of reasons. Firstly, there is a lack of direct interaction in distance learning. It is unquestionable that the immediate guidance and support from a teacher would improve students’ academic achievements. However, by conducting their lectures through the internet, teachers could face enormous challenges in monitoring students’ performance, as well as maintaining a sense of connection with their learners. Secondly, without the educational settings of classrooms and blackboards, students are deprived from the engagement in various classroom activities. Traditional classrooms equip students with suitable environment for the learning process as well as the support from other classmates which can enhance students’ potential for progression. However, a university student who enrolls in online courses is unlikely to access the aforementioned resources.
In a word, it seems to me that the disadvantages of qualifications through distance learning far outweigh its advantages.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, well, while, in addition, such as, as well as, on the other hand
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 : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 41.998997996 126% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 8.3376753507 228% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1971.0 1615.20841683 122% => OK
No of words: 338.0 315.596192385 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.83136094675 5.12529762239 114% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28774723029 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.34987158686 2.80592935109 119% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 176.041082164 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.556213017751 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 618.3 506.74238477 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.1040132811 49.4020404114 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.1875 106.682146367 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.125 20.7667163134 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.1875 7.06120827912 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.206817535844 0.244688304435 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0639238170088 0.084324248473 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0416670713608 0.0667982634062 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.13433145194 0.151304729494 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0298584649231 0.056905535591 52% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.6 13.0946893788 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.24 50.2224549098 66% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.53 12.4159519038 133% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.19 8.58950901804 119% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 78.4519038076 150% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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