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今天要分析的作文题目是：
Universities and colleges are increasingly offering distance learning qualifications over the internet. Is this development a positive one?
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习作/Celesta
Standing at the early stages of the twenty-first century, we must have noticed that a lot of distance-learning platforms such as Coursera and iTunes U have been created for people all over the world to take online courses. Distance learning is becoming more and more popular and it is really a positive development in education for all.
The best advantage of distance learning is that people can learn with their computers anytime anywhere. It saves them time and money, as they do not have to travel a long way to the classroom and most of these courses are free of charge. And distance learning means even more when it comes to people who are socially disadvantaged. Lots of people from a deprived environment cannot afford college tuition, not to mention the poor education resources there. However, distance learning offers them the opportunity to get educated, so they can be qualified and equipped to find a job and support their family. It helps improve educational equality. Teachers of those charged courses can benefit from distance learning, in addition to money. They can save their energy to do other things and still get paid while they do not need to repeat the same content of the course over and over again as they used to do.
Some people argue that online education is not so instructive as attending class at a real school because they cannot make contact with the teachers. And if they have questions about what they have learned, no one could answer them. From my point of view, this problem brought about by distance learning is negligible compared to the benefits of it. Besides, they can seek answers from other people around them or on the Internet.
Overall, after weighing up the pros and cons of distance learning, I think it is a great development in modern education and everyone should support it.
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Standing at the early stages of the twenty-first century, we must have noticed that a
lot of
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large number of
distance-learning platforms such as Coursera and iTunes U have been created for people all over the world to take online courses. Distance learning is becoming more and more popular
,
and it is really a positive development
in education for all
