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 in technology bring many advantages to the learning process and one of them is the development of online education, which is now widely offered at the majority of universities. However, some people think that online education is not a positive development.
To begin with, contemporary telecommunications technology makes discussions between remote people as natural as a real-life conversation. Therefore, it is not necessary for students to be physically at the same place as their teachers. This technology has made possible a classroom which is not limited by the particular number of students it can contain. Furthermore, students themselves can reduce their spending on education expenses such as travelling and accommodation. It seems that a lot of learning materials could be recorded on video and rewatched more than once by students wherever they are.
On the other hand, although theoretical studies can be easily provided online, practical skills may be much more trickier to learn this way. It is hard to imagine that a welder or surgeon could be taught remotely. Therefore online education has its own limits. However, technology is developing and there are a lot of virtual training machines which could solve this problem in the near future. Other disadvantages of online courses could be the harm to the profits of universities and a potential reduction of teaching jobs. It seems that courses could be recorded once and then be replayed many times to different students, meaning that it would not be necessary to have as many teachers in permanent jobs, and as a result prices of the courses would decline.
In conclusion, although online education is not the answer for all students, in my opinion the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 41.998997996 79% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1511.0 1615.20841683 94% => OK
No of words: 286.0 315.596192385 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.28321678322 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11236361783 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.11681271373 2.80592935109 111% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 176.041082164 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.555944055944 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 484.2 506.74238477 96% => 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: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.9616104616 49.4020404114 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.928571429 106.682146367 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4285714286 20.7667163134 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.71428571429 7.06120827912 138% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.01903807615 120% => 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: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.130498593161 0.244688304435 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.048503539464 0.084324248473 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0573336220228 0.0667982634062 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0833188668523 0.151304729494 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0673551569262 0.056905535591 118% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.0946893788 105% => 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: 13.34 12.4159519038 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.32 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 78.4519038076 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 9.78957915832 138% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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