Some universities now offer their courses on the Internet so that people can study online. Is this a positive or negative development?
It is a fact that many colleges and universities are adopting online education, so students can easily take any internet course. The trend would create certainly drawbacks but there will also be some benefits.
One the one hand, it is clear that online courses from universities always have their disavantages. One evident when students learn online is that it would lack of social interaction and soft skills. In the other words, although the technology is developing fast, online courses will be limited by the visualization and required hand-on experience such as Neurology or Chemistry. Another reason is that it would have limited from many traditional universities. Last but not least, some companies and organizations often reject applicants who take it by studying online. For instance, if two candidates are interviewed who are exactly in the same in every respect, except one studied at a conventional university and the other studied online, in many cases the student who studied online will miss out.
On the other hand, there are several advantages when studing online. Firstly, the biggest advantage to study online is the increase in flexibility. This flexibility is why online education is very popular with mature-age students who have other commitments, such as work or children. Secondly, the students just need a computer with internet access to study online. They could have all the lectures and assignments from the university via email or a kind of file transfer system. Finally, studying online helps students avoid a variety of financial risks. For example, students can pay a certain amount of money for the textbooks of each course, in addition to living expenses, travel expenses if they are away from the university.
In conclusion, there are plus point to need a laptop with internet access, the flexibility and avoid some financial risks. However, the downside would emerge consequently in terms of the lack of soft skills and interaction, the visualization and required hand-on experience and job.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, finally, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, for example, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, kind of, such as, in many cases, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 10.4138276553 144% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 13.0 24.0651302605 54% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 41.998997996 79% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1709.0 1615.20841683 106% => OK
No of words: 324.0 315.596192385 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.27469135802 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24264068712 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8629916443 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 176.041082164 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.546296296296 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 553.5 506.74238477 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.9766373962 49.4020404114 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.529411765 106.682146367 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0588235294 20.7667163134 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.1764705882 7.06120827912 158% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.234677964347 0.244688304435 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0713904753768 0.084324248473 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0531366925456 0.0667982634062 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.136037302547 0.151304729494 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0537298867421 0.056905535591 94% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.0946893788 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.4159519038 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.72 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 78.4519038076 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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