Some universities offer online courses for students. Do you think this is a positive or negative development for students? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

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Nowadays, the Internet has strong impact on people in all aspects, young people tend to use the Internet regularly.
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, numerous universities apply distant classes in media as an alternative face to face classes on campus. I personally believe
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tendency has both positive and negative effects which will be discussed below.
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, there are several benefits which promote online
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as an alternative of the traditional method.
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, online courses
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brings
opportunities for international students who are living in different countries that are struggling to study abroad.
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, my uncle who has just enrolled an online BA course in a US university while he still works as a designer in Viet Nam.
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, available learning materials as well as references which learners to freely choose a variety of diverse courses with different levels.
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gives a great opportunity for learners to gain new skills and accumulate their knowledge level, while still staying in their own place.
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, students attending the national high school examination can have diverse opportunities to study in many forums on the internet
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as the Moon, the Hocmai forum.
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,
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classes help to reduce
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costs not only for students but
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for universities. Universities might not have to spend money on infrastructure of classes, hire more teachers and create events for students.
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, it is
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true
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online courses have few drawbacks.
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of all, online courses are unsuitable for subjects which need practical hands-on experience.
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, science subjects like physics, chemistry, and biology involve a lot of laboratory-based exercises which cannot be fulfilled through online teaching.
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, online students cannot develop comprehensively like the way other students who attend classes at school do.
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is often linked to the fact that those learners do not seem to interact with classmates in an educational environment. During online courses, students can barely make friends or even compete with their peers. Whereas, students of traditional classes could study together through group tasks, students of online courses just finish tasks by teacher assignments.
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might lead to reduce the teamwork ability of students.
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kind of learning is that lack of motivation and competition.
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, online courses are less direct interaction between students and teachers. In fact, online learners might not have opportunities to discuss with their teachers in front of the class.
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, traditional students could ask their teacher about the lesson as well as
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together in the class, while online learners are restricted to other forms of communication through email or forum websites. In conclusion, online courses offered by universities greatly help the students to pursue higher
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and their advantages clearly outweigh their shortcomings. In fact, online courses actually help to spread
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far and wide
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of restricting it to the confines of the classroom.

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