Universities and colleges are now offering qualifications through distance learning from the Internet rather than teachers in the classroom. Do you think the advantages of this development overweight the disadvantages?

Essay topics:

Universities and colleges are now offering qualifications through distance learning from the Internet rather than teachers in the classroom. Do you think the advantages of this development overweight the disadvantages?

One of the most controversial issues today relates to benefits and drawbacks of distance learning. Technological advancements have integrated learning and teaching via internet which are easily accessible in different parts of the world. In this essay, I am going to examine this question from both points of view

On one side of the argument, there are people who argue that the benefits of considerably outweigh its disadvantages. The main reason for believing this is that students enjoy the benefits of flexible schedule and self-learning pace. It is also possible to say that on-line learning helps to reduce the expensive tuition fees and the hassle to travel and stay in the university in the duration of studies. One good illustration of this is students are able to continue their full time employment while study part time via distance learning from another part of the world.

On the other hand, it is also possible to make the opposing case. It is often argued that in fact students that lack of self control will have a undesirable outcome from distance learning. People often have this opinion because this on-line course required strong determination and full focus in order to repel all the distractions. A second point is that students are not able to engage a discussion freely with their lecturers and peers. A particularly good example here is through discussion, students are likely to understand better compare to the peers which does not involved in any discussion.

As we have seen, there are no easy answers to this question. On balance, however, I tend to believe that it is a great development for mankind if distance learning is used in a correct manner.

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Average: 6.7 (1 vote)

Comments

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...or mankind if distance learning is used in a correct manner.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'however', 'if', 'second', 'so', 'while', 'in fact', 'on the other hand']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.262458471761 0.247107183377 106% => OK
Verbs: 0.156146179402 0.155533422707 100% => OK
Adjectives: 0.093023255814 0.0946595960268 98% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0431893687708 0.0501214627716 86% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0332225913621 0.0437548338989 76% => OK
Prepositions: 0.136212624585 0.122226691241 111% => OK
Participles: 0.0332225913621 0.0403226058552 82% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.82330910951 2.80594681477 101% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0431893687708 0.0326793684256 132% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00163938923432 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.106312292359 0.0861772015684 123% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.00332225913621 0.021408717616 16% => Some modal verbs wanted.
WH_determiners: 0.0132890365449 0.011925033212 111% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1694.0 1933.35771543 88% => OK
No of words: 281.0 316.048096192 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.02846975089 6.12580529183 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09427095027 4.20517956788 97% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.355871886121 0.374742101984 95% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.281138790036 0.28420135186 99% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.217081850534 0.203846283523 106% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.103202846975 0.137316102897 75% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82330910951 2.80594681477 101% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 176.037074148 90% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.565836298932 0.56093040696 101% => OK
Word variations: 58.6015596864 60.7387585426 96% => OK
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0891783567 81% => OK
Sentence length: 21.6153846154 20.7743622355 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.6331555799 49.517814964 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.307692308 127.492653851 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6153846154 20.7743622355 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.615384615385 0.814263465372 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38877755511 91% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 3.99599198397 125% => OK
Readability: 49.7292636189 49.1944974215 101% => OK
Elegance: 1.85714285714 1.69124875643 110% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.36972906023 0.332605444948 111% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.111444507904 0.102741220458 108% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0764264174624 0.0668466124924 114% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.555091900262 0.534860350844 104% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.0899528547538 0.148594505496 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.168324548597 0.134430193775 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0852820874868 0.0742795772207 115% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.400635980527 0.324371583561 124% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0822668644198 0.0638462369009 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.251484057553 0.228012699653 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.115332696653 0.058150111329 198% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.68436873747 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.41683366733 0% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 8.0 5.90881763527 135% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 2.5751503006 78% => OK
Neutral topic words: 0.0 1.9629258517 0% => More neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 10.0 10.4468937876 96% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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