Some universities offer online courses as an alternative to classes delivered on campus. Do you think this is a positive or negative development?
Distance learning has been a growing trend in recent years. The online courses offered by well-esteemed universities are getting increasingly popular. Despite a few drawbacks which may incur when learning online, I believe it is a constructive approach.
If we consider the negatives, one of the main concern about distance learning would be the effectiveness. To explain more, students are solely depending on themselves while learning as there are no team or friends to discuss or work together. For example, when any doubts arise, learners don't have many options to clear those. Online explanations from support-groups or the lecturer would not be sufficient in many cases. Moreover, face-to-face question asking and discussions are not possible when learning online. In fact, it is not rare that pupils get bored after sometimes because there is very less interaction during the lectures. Whereas physically delivered classes are more engaging and live. Which, I believe, is essential when learning.
On the other hand, these virtual classes are providing an exponential amount of valuable courses. For instance, one can learn from arts to advance science from many reputed universities for a very reasonable fee. In contrast, enrollment requirements and cost of traditional courses of such subjects would be not affordable for many. Moreover, nowadays, people tend to gain more knowledge about various subjects because there is high demand for knowledge-workers. Especially, if we consider the Information Technology industry, many individuals follow online courses and obtain their degrees online in order to get jobs and necessary qualifications. As a matter of fact, it is worth mention that many enterprises are hiring such people despite the way they acquire their talents.
To recapitulate, although there some negatives of online courses due to lack of peer support and attention, the positives are tremendously beneficial in terms of getting knowledge and recognised qualifications.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, may, moreover, so, well, whereas, while, for example, for instance, in contrast, in fact, as a matter of fact, in many cases, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 24.0651302605 62% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 41.998997996 86% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1707.0 1615.20841683 106% => OK
No of words: 304.0 315.596192385 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.61513157895 5.12529762239 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17559525986 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.13461643655 2.80592935109 112% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 176.041082164 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.625 0.561755894193 111% => OK
syllable_count: 536.4 506.74238477 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.5204666464 49.4020404114 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.8333333333 106.682146367 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.8888888889 20.7667163134 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.16666666667 7.06120827912 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 3.4128256513 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.139022884647 0.244688304435 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0405912108073 0.084324248473 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0595151914057 0.0667982634062 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0959600007572 0.151304729494 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0450744843157 0.056905535591 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.0946893788 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.31 50.2224549098 76% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.02 12.4159519038 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.57 8.58950901804 111% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 78.4519038076 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.78957915832 72% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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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