Some universities now offer their courses on the Internet so that people can study online. Is this a positive or negative development?
Recently, some universities offer online courses, which makes it possible to study distantly and via the internet. This change has both negative and positive consequences, but I believe that the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.
Studying online and without going to university classrooms has a couple of downsides, like lack of interactions and internet problems. Firstly, by attending online classes, students cannot interact directly with their teachers and the other students at the university, making their communication restricted to chats only. Since years ago, exchanging ideas face-to-face and group work have been an important aspect of education, which is not provided in online learning. Secondly, interruption in internet connection is one of the major drawbacks of studying online, causing students to fall behind the class and other students. For example, last week I was attending an online class, and suddenly the electricity went out. I had no internet connection for one hour, and I missed the class, so I could not keep up with the other students in that session.
On the other hand, online learning has some main advantages, such as flexibility in time and lowering costs. Universities, which provide students with online courses, foster convenience among their students. In this way, students can study in anytime and anywhere, not being limited to classes. For instance, my colleague who has been studying online since last year, can not only work efficiently in the workplace but also study her university courses via the internet in her free time at work. At the same time, by studying online, no money should be spent neither on traveling nor in a room to be educated in. Therefore, by reducing expenses more people from different social classes can learn through online courses because they are not required to spend money on traveling to university. Also, the cost of enrollment in such classes is not high, because there is no rent for classrooms.
In conclusion, studying online which is offered by some universities these days has both merits and demerits. Not being able to interact face-to-face and internet problems are the problems of such learning. However, being able to study with the flexibility of time and location, and reduction of costs are the advantages, which I believe weigh more than disadvantages.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, for example, for instance, in conclusion, such as, 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: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 10.4138276553 173% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 41.998997996 136% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1986.0 1615.20841683 123% => OK
No of words: 375.0 315.596192385 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.296 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40055868397 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87977283055 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 176.041082164 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.533333333333 0.561755894193 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 619.2 506.74238477 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.76152304609 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.6932879714 49.4020404114 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.333333333 106.682146367 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8333333333 20.7667163134 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.83333333333 7.06120827912 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.9879759519 201% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.262444776508 0.244688304435 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0800955891494 0.084324248473 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0612542776043 0.0667982634062 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.17308906182 0.151304729494 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.062144661427 0.056905535591 109% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 13.0946893788 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 50.2224549098 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.46 12.4159519038 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.38 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 78.4519038076 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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