Many universities now offer academic courses over the Internet. However, some people still prefer learning in traditional classrooms. Which do you think is better? Explain why.

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Many universities now offer academic courses over the Internet. However, some people still prefer learning in traditional classrooms. Which do you think is better? Explain why.

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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 510.0 444.711560045 115% => OK
No of words: 124.0 116.580246914 106% => OK
Chars per words: 4.11290322581 3.81502700369 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.33699396548 3.28032121604 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.31478305755 1.8723322822 124% => OK
Unique words: 83.0 76.076318743 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.66935483871 0.655143326166 102% => OK
Syllable count: 152.1 141.574747475 107% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0951492135344 0.0738818816272 129% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 3.20202020202 94% => OK
Average paragraph length: 41.3333333333 60.3232687746 69% => OK
STD paragraph length: 39.5165225641 17.3634065801 228% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 15.2866666667 22.9064221017 67% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 12.0374314351 6.49597621602 185% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 24.0 31.1548821549 77% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.16666666667 4.0588447711 127% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.44416099035 3.18357895611 171% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.82625 1.46810986539 124% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.53127346921 1.01537252472 151% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 22.0 28.6644219978 77% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.36 5.28593714927 120% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.289090909091 0.187982170178 154% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.295202689858 0.154715141812 191% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 35.52 35.408047138 100% => OK
Average word duration: 0.286451612903 0.306236595465 94% => OK
STD word duration: 0.176873353399 0.198589292138 89% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 4.0 6.3164983165 63% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.3 5.14435465769 64% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.47 2.80480359147 88% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.86 45.0716498316 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.01911111111 1.00159221848 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.479720889664 0.637764685501 75% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.70388137811 2.58495923209 105% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.80985608373 1.68816559523 107% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.33671171171 2.15290372801 109% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.478010274194 0.343871460585 139% => OK

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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.