Some universities now offer their courses on the Internet so that people can study online. Is this a positive or negative development?
These days, internet-based learning at universities experienced an unstoppable rise of popularity. Some people argue that this way of learning causes some drawbacks, I still believe that it is more beneficial to enroll online courses at universities.
On the one hand, distant learning is negative from two aspects. Online learners often have less direct interaction with teachers, for they rely mostly on written forms of communication instead. Not having opportunities to engage face to face with teachers may have negative impacts on study outcomes of students since when they ask their teachers online, they may not get responses immediately, which affects negatively their understanding of lectures. Similarly, students studying online do not come into direct contact with each other, which also affect greatly peer support as well as exchange of ideas in the class. Different from traditional courses where learners can discuss and enjoy face-to-face group work, online students are restricted to chatting through website forum areas, which can make them lack motivation and element of competition.
Despite disadvantages discussed above, I believe that online courses at universities are more advantageous because of several reasons. Firstly, internet-based courses allow students study in flexible schedule whenever and wherever they are. This is highly convenient for them as they can manage time more effectively; also, they can cover the material at their own pace. Secondly, thanks to distance learning educational programmes, cost of a university education can be greatly reduced. Doing this can open access to anybody who is willing to study regardless of age, location, ability and financial background.
In conclusion, although there are some disadvantages of online learning, I still believe that it is a positive development of education.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 10.4138276553 38% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 41.998997996 95% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1593.0 1615.20841683 99% => OK
No of words: 279.0 315.596192385 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.70967741935 5.12529762239 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.08696624509 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.03732513413 2.80592935109 108% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 176.041082164 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.637992831541 0.561755894193 114% => OK
syllable_count: 507.6 506.74238477 100% => 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: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.7094053109 49.4020404114 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.538461538 106.682146367 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4615384615 20.7667163134 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.84615384615 7.06120827912 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.279229876796 0.244688304435 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0869403528613 0.084324248473 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0441631372861 0.0667982634062 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.158337336121 0.151304729494 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0368263872301 0.056905535591 65% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 13.0946893788 124% => 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: 15.84 12.4159519038 128% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.83 8.58950901804 114% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 78.4519038076 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 9.78957915832 128% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 10.7795591182 148% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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