Some universities now offer their courses on the Internet so that people can study online. Is this a positive or negative development?
Online study is considered to be a new educational trend that a plethora of global tertiary institutions are offering these days. However, the question of whether it is worthy or not is arguably the most debatable one. I believe that online learning has huge benefits and this essay will discuss both sides of this contentious issue and draw a concluding view.
On one hand, there is no doubt that online studies have made a conspicuous impact on many students worldwide. Firstly, it offers easy access which means it can be conducted through the Internet at any part of the world at any time. This feature allows people who have a tight busy schedule to strengthen their education by studying anywhere at their free-time. For instance, my uncle who is an assistant director in his office enrolled in a 2 years program in the National open University of Nigeria. He comfortably combined work and study and at the end of the course bagged a distinction.
Secondly, it is considered to be cheaper option for a lot of individuals as it saves the cost of travelling and relocating. Finally, internet learning is applicable to all ages. Undoubtedly, lots of older people might have greater free time than younger ones and utilizing this facility to learn something new would be a plus for them.
On the other hand, internet education has some demerits. Lack of frequent face to face interactions between teachers, students and other colleagues might lead to unpleasant results and this interaction motivates student during their study. Furthermore, studying in a class with other students provides astonishing opportunities to acquire some experiences and boost their skills. Nevertheless, online learning is not suitable for all subjects. For instance, there are several subjects that needs hands-on practice
and experiments to be taught such as chemistry, physics and so on.
To sum up, online education is a new study style which in my opinion has various profitable advantages that ate beneficial to students over the traditional method.
Comments
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, firstly, furthermore, however, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, then, for instance, no doubt, such as, in my opinion, to sum up, 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: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 41.998997996 100% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1724.0 1615.20841683 107% => OK
No of words: 333.0 315.596192385 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.17717717718 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27180144563 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90351413951 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 205.0 176.041082164 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.615615615616 0.561755894193 110% => OK
syllable_count: 542.7 506.74238477 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.416278348 49.4020404114 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.411764706 106.682146367 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5882352941 20.7667163134 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.70588235294 7.06120827912 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.38176352705 137% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.207714598659 0.244688304435 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0584966682831 0.084324248473 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0436233842275 0.0667982634062 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0857292732752 0.151304729494 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.051266376377 0.056905535591 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.0946893788 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 12.4159519038 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.37 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 78.4519038076 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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