Some universities offer online courses as an alternative to classes delivered on campus. Do you think this is a positive or negative development?

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Some universities offer online courses as an alternative to classes delivered on campus. Do you think this is a positive or negative development?

I believe that improvements of the technology brings many advantages to the learning process and one of it is an online education, which widely on offer in the majority of universities. However some people think that online education is not a positive development.

To begin with, the contemporary telecommunication technology makes conversations between remote people is as sophisticated as a real life can provide. Therefore it is not necessary for students to be physically at the same place with their teachers. It brings the idea that classes are not anymore restricted with particular amount of students, also students themselves can reduce spending on education because of economy on travelling and accommodation. It seems that a lot of learning materials can be video recorded and rewatched more than once by students.

On the other hand although theoretical learning can be easily provided online, practice may be a much more trickier. It is hard to imagine that welder or surgeon can be taught remotely. Therefore online education have its own limits. However technology is developing and there are a lot of virtual training machines which can solve this problem in the near future. Other disadvantage of online courses could be the profit of the university and cut off the teachers jobs. It seems that course could be recorded once and just be replayed for different students many times as a result there would not be necessary to have many teachers on permanent jobs, and prices of the courses could decline.

In conclusion, although online education is not an answer to any question, in my opinion, its advantages overvalued its disadvantages.

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Average: 5.6 (1 vote)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, may, so, therefore, in conclusion, as a result, in my opinion, to begin with, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 41.998997996 79% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1398.0 1615.20841683 87% => OK
No of words: 268.0 315.596192385 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.21641791045 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04607285448 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.06770885239 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 176.041082164 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.555970149254 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 461.7 506.74238477 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.384769539078 0% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => 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: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.3222749977 49.4020404114 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.538461538 106.682146367 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6153846154 20.7667163134 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.76923076923 7.06120827912 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.01903807615 100% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.67935871743 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
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: 0.136844776472 0.244688304435 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0523814303869 0.084324248473 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0602002339272 0.0667982634062 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0909590899266 0.151304729494 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0677986081215 0.056905535591 119% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.0946893788 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 50.2224549098 85% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.17 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 78.4519038076 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 9.78957915832 133% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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