Many people join distance-learning programmes (study material, post. TV, Internet) and study at home, but some people think that it cannot bring the same benefit as attending colleges or universities does. Do you agree or disagree?
The advent of the Internet and advanced technologies, the ever-increasing demand for innovative ways of delivering educational materials have currently fueled the popularity of so-called distance education. Putting it in comparison with the traditional systems like colleges or universities, I believe e-learning, despite its outstanding benefits, cannot outweigh the traditional in some ways.
On the one hand, correspondence courses via the Internet appear to be a promising solution to lifelong education. Firstly, that distance learning programmes presenting multimedia-based learning materials raises learner's interest and engagement. E-learners could gradually get access to a huge source of knowledge more easily through lessons conveyed by videos, images, etc. Moreover, a self-paced learning environment is what students can only find in distance courses, rather than in traditional ones. This helps to ensure that learners move forward only when they have already had a good grasp of what they have learned. Additionally, e-learning offers its customers a student-centred model. This means students are ones who decide what they learn and how to think, putting them in a position of responsibility for their own learning.
On the other hand, there exist some deficiencies that hinder the dominance of e-learning over classroom-based learning. Initially, distance education lacks the possibility of providing students with immediate feedback or support. This can leave learners with confusion and an unthorough understanding, which might even lead to a gap in their knowledge. Furthermore, such necessary social skills as leadership and cooperation, which are well cultivated in traditional classrooms, appear to be a shortage when it comes to e-learning. Lastly, as a result of restricted face-to-face interaction, e-learners might have a slim chance of building up their own social relationships like friendship or relationship between teachers and students. These could contribute a lot to motivating students, making them as essential as learning.
In conclusion, distance learning programmes have both pros and cons in comparison with classroom-based learning. Therefore, combining these two forms of education is an optimum solution, commonly referred to as blended learning. It requires buy-in from both teachers and students to make better use of distance learning and traditional one.
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- Many people join distance-learning programmes (study material, post. TV, Internet) and study at home, but some people think that it cannot bring the same benefit as attending colleges or universities does. Do you agree or disagree? 89
- “Education should be free”To what extent do you agree or disagree? 89
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, furthermore, if, lastly, moreover, so, therefore, well, in conclusion, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 13.1623246493 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => 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: 2061.0 1615.20841683 128% => OK
No of words: 349.0 315.596192385 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.90544412607 5.12529762239 115% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32221490584 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.35898999254 2.80592935109 120% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 176.041082164 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.607449856734 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 629.1 506.74238477 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.4297480531 49.4020404114 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.5 106.682146367 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3888888889 20.7667163134 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.77777777778 7.06120827912 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0931184760234 0.244688304435 38% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0313769134825 0.084324248473 37% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0305137712177 0.0667982634062 46% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0612133566993 0.151304729494 40% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0208241953662 0.056905535591 37% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 13.0946893788 123% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.27 50.2224549098 70% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 17.0 12.4159519038 137% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.87 8.58950901804 115% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 78.4519038076 149% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 9.78957915832 133% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => 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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