Universities and colleges are now offering qualifications through distance learning from the Internet rather than teachers in the classroom. Do you think advantages of this development outweigh the disadvantages?
Technological advances introduce conveniences to study. It is popular to develop online courses among universities and colleges, bringing a new teaching method to education. In my point of view, the advantages of this tendency outweigh disadvantages.
Firstly, the web-based study improves the efficiency compared with attending class in a formal setting. The flexibility of the internet allows students to acquire knowledge from home, which could save time on transportation. To be more specific, they do not need to get up early and try to avoid rush-hour traffic in the morning. Thus, students could concentrate on the content of modules, a better mark would be achieved with the same time used as before. In this situation, online courses help students study more efficiently.
Secondly, universities may develop rapidly with the aid of distance learning. Since people could study online, it is unnecessary for schools to invest in basic facilities, such as classroom and blackboard. In this situation, the expenditure on scientific researches and introducing outstanding teachers could be increased. As a result, technology enables universities to focus on improving their academic achievements, to attract more students.
However, attending online courses cannot replace traditional teaching method totally nowadays. An obvious drawback is that students lose their chances to practice communication skills if they only learned knowledge at home. Lacking interact with teachers and their counterparts face to face, students, especially children may do not know how to be a good communicator. Thus, their career prospects would be influenced.
In conclusion, the trend of teaching online brings a huge variety of positive possibilities for us. However, there still exists some problems that need to be tackled. In the future, I believe that the disadvantages of technology would be solved by the intelligence of human beings
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, thus, in conclusion, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 10.4138276553 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 41.998997996 110% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1643.0 1615.20841683 102% => OK
No of words: 292.0 315.596192385 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.62671232877 5.12529762239 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13376432452 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.1765964731 2.80592935109 113% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.619863013699 0.561755894193 110% => OK
syllable_count: 509.4 506.74238477 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 7.0 2.52805611222 277% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 16.0721442886 118% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.2975951904 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 26.6241928597 49.4020404114 54% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 86.4736842105 106.682146367 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.3684210526 20.7667163134 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.47368421053 7.06120827912 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => 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: 0.127893551884 0.244688304435 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0364326180258 0.084324248473 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0389673398983 0.0667982634062 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.070589590858 0.151304729494 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.042082737117 0.056905535591 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.0946893788 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.79 50.2224549098 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.78 12.4159519038 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.9 8.58950901804 115% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 78.4519038076 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.1190380762 79% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.7795591182 74% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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