Dear Helen,
I was so happy to have your letter. I asked so many people through the Internet about the MOOC you asked me before. MOOC is a learning website for students and adults in China to have more classes from other schools, including hundreds of Chinese and Western universities. It was so clever of you to have online classes to understand the subjects deeply.
Recently, our school asked us to take online classes. My parents and I held different ideas towards online classes and we even argued about it. In their mind, the reason why I liked to have online classes was that I wanted to play with the computer. They said that online teaching was not like face-to-face teaching, and that the less communication between teachers and students would cause no feedbacks (反馈) from students in time. Besides, learning online at home would be a worse way because students were easier to concentrate on other things instead of the classes.
However, I thought differently. I thought it was great for students to know how to deal with the learning problems online, because online teaching shared resources to all people, which cost a little at the same time. This could also bring hopes to those people who failed to afford many courses at real schools. I believed that online teaching made it come true that one could be able to study at the best place for him according to his own conditions.
Now I am so sad about this. I think my parents and I need to talk more, not just argue with each other. What should I do with the argument?
Yours,
Lexi