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 passage introduces an opinion that online graduate programs are different to the programs in campus environment, even inferior. However, the speaker in the audio clearly disagrees with this statement and believes that the online programs are every bit of similar with the programs on campus environment. According to him, online programs do allow to maintain a good teacher-student relationship, offer same quality level education and is available even in the top universities.
First, the author in the reading passage goes on to say that online programs allows minimal interaction between professor and students, preventing them from developing an informal relation before or after classes. The lecturer is against this view as he believes that such informal interactions can be also encouraged in the online classes through email, and chat. The interaction between a professor and a student actually depends upon their effort and enthusiasm, and not merely upon the medium.
Similarly, the reading passage also mentions that it is quite difficult to maintain the quality of education when the classes are being run in an online platform. The lecturer is quite dissatisfied with this opinion too. He goes to say that the quality of the online classes is similar to the programs in the campus as the students need to maintain a certain standard of quality for the course to be credited. He also mentions a study that states that the students found online classes to be less easier and requiring more hard work as it required a lot of hard work and detailed knowledge of technology.
Lastly, the author in the reading passage deems online classes as quite inferior as the top universities do not allow the provision of online classes. The person in the lecture disagrees with this statement who says that all the Ivy Schools (except for Princeton) provides credited online classes. Even Princeton offers some really quality non-credited online courses. Some universities usually require one year on-campus program, but later allow online class
Hence, you can clearly see that the author in the reading passage and the lecturer in the audio is clearly in disagreement with their opinion on the online classes.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 360, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'maintaining'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'allow' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: maintaining
...ording to him, online programs do allow to maintain a good teacher-student relationship, of...
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Line 5, column 493, Rule ID: LESS_COMPARATIVE[1]
Message: Non-standard use of the comparative or superlative. Did you mean 'less easy'?
Suggestion: less easy
...the students found online classes to be less easier and requiring more hard work as it requ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, hence, however, if, lastly, really, similarly, so, thus, except for
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 30.3222958057 158% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1874.0 1373.03311258 136% => OK
No of words: 358.0 270.72406181 132% => OK
Chars per words: 5.23463687151 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34981470047 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74680301669 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 145.348785872 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.45530726257 0.540411800872 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 592.2 419.366225166 141% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.0381996935 49.2860985944 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.857142857 110.228320801 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.5714285714 21.698381199 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.78571428571 7.06452816374 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.25568560319 0.272083759551 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.10406575873 0.0996497079465 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0838216477969 0.0662205650399 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.152095294071 0.162205337803 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.108895183817 0.0443174109184 246% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.0 13.3589403974 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 53.8541721854 70% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.0289183223 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.35 12.2367328918 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.45 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 63.6247240618 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 10.7273730684 140% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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