Online graduate degree programs are being offered worldwide. In many respects, the programs are like the same degree programs available in a traditional campus environment, but in several key aspects, they are very different.
First, online degree programs do not offer one-on-one time with the professors. On campus, professors hold regular office hours and expect to have conferences with their graduate students. In addition, many opportunities present themselves for informal interactions before and after class or in chance meetings on campus. Some professors invite their graduate students to their homes or otherwise make themselves available in semi-social settings. In contrast, online professors are unable to see their graduate students in person and, consequently, do not know them very well.
Second, many online graduate programs are not as challenging or as high quality as their on-campus counterparts. In fact, some courses are so easy that students are able to complete them online in one weekend. For the most part, senior faculty members refuse to teach the online courses, contributing to the difference in quality of the online and on-campus courses with the same titles. Many excellent professors view the huge numbers in the online classes as an impediment. Technology allows for more students to take the same course, and junior faculty or graders provide feedback on assignments that are graded by senior faculty teaching on campus.
Third, top schools do not offer online degree programs. Although non-credit courses or even a handful of credit courses may be available, the best schools still require that graduate students complete a more conventional program with most of their time spent in residence on campus. For students who want a graduate degree from a prestigious university, online options are not open to them.
The reading and the lecture are both about differences between regular and online graduate degree programs. While the author of the article claims that there are many critical differences, the lecturer disputes the claims mentioned in the article. His position is that the reading points are not necessarily to be true.
According to the reading, online degree programs do not have an one-on-one time with the professor. The article mentions that in the traditional campus will be more opportunities for informal interaction between students and their professors. This argument is challenged by the lecturer. He claims that this interaction is up to students. Additionally, he points out that in online courses there are also kind of communication, but it will be by emails, chat or telephone calls rather than face to face.
Second, the author says that online courses are not as challenging and do not have a high quality as on-campus courses. The author notes that many online courses are very easy for students that they can finish them in one weekend. However, the lecturer asserts hat this claim is not true. He goes on to say that many online students face difficulties in understanding or following up with online programs standard, since they though that it will be much easier than that. The also complain about the ability to manage the technology to learn the content of the course.
Finally, the author puts forth the idea that top schools do not offer online degree programs. The author contends that if students want to get a degree from a prestigious university, online option are not open for them. In contrast, the professor's stance is many lead universities offer an online courses. He says that many of them also offer to get a degree with completely online courses, which are also credited.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, second, so, while, in contrast, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1513.0 1373.03311258 110% => OK
No of words: 302.0 270.72406181 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.00993377483 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1687104957 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70697541357 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.503311258278 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 475.2 419.366225166 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.1722819681 49.2860985944 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.0 110.228320801 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.7647058824 21.698381199 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.23529411765 7.06452816374 60% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.295351978895 0.272083759551 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0868928686885 0.0996497079465 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0740285678788 0.0662205650399 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.175392387943 0.162205337803 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0346319076724 0.0443174109184 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 13.3589403974 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.48 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.93 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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