Google Trend Analysis and Paradigm Shift of Online Education Platforms during the COVID-19 Pandemic
<i>Objective:</i> The largest pandemic in history, the COVID-19 pandemic, has been declared a doomsday globally. The second wave spreading worldwide has devastating consequences in every sector of life. Several measures to contain and curb its infection have forged significant challenges...
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| description | <i>Objective:</i> The largest pandemic in history, the COVID-19 pandemic, has been declared a doomsday globally. The second wave spreading worldwide has devastating consequences in every sector of life. Several measures to contain and curb its infection have forged significant challenges for the education community. With an estimated 1.6 billion learners, the closure of schools and other educational institutions has impacted more than 90% of students worldwide from the elementary to tertiary level. <i>Methods:</i> In a view to studying impacts on student’s fraternity, this article aims at addressing alternative ways of educating—more specifically, online education—through the analysis of Google trends for the past year. The study analyzed the platforms of online teaching and learning systems that have been enabling remote learning, thereby limiting the impact on the education system. Thorough text analysis is performed on an existing dataset from Kaggle to retrieve insight on the clustering of words that are more often looked at during this pandemic to find the general patterns of their occurrence. <i>Findings:</i> The results show that the coronavirus patients are the most trending patterns in word search clustering, with the education system being at the control and preventive measures to bring equilibrium in the system of education. There has been significant growth in online platforms in the last year. Existing assets of educational establishments have effectively converted conventional education into new-age online education with the help of virtual classes and other key online tools in this continually fluctuating scholastic setting. The effective usage of teaching tools such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, and WebEx are the most used online platforms for the conduction of classes, and whiteboard software tools and learning apps such as Vedantu, Udemy, Byju’s, and Whitehat Junior have been big market players in the education system over the pandemic year, especially in India. <i>Conclusions:</i> The article helps to draw a holistic approach of ongoing online teaching-learning methods during the lockdown and also highlights changes that took place in the conventional education system amid the COVID pandemic to overcome the persisting disruption in academic activities and to ensure correct perception towards the online procedure as a normal course of action in the new educational system. To fill in the void of classroom learning and to minimize the virus spread over the last year, digital learning in various schools and colleges has been emphasized, leading to a significant increase in the usage of whiteboard software platforms. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b47337437d6f44df96eb9e7a5e9995322023-11-21T19:16:37ZengMDPI AGInfectious Disease Reports2036-74492021-05-0113241842810.3390/idr13020040Google Trend Analysis and Paradigm Shift of Online Education Platforms during the COVID-19 PandemicAshwani Kumar Kansal0Jyoti Gautam1Nalini Chintalapudi2Shivani Jain3Gopi Battineni4Kasturba Institute of Technology, Abdul Kalam Technological University, Lucknow 226031, IndiaJSS Academy of Technical Education, Noida 201301, IndiaTelemedicine and Telepharmacy Centre, School of Medicinal and Health Products Sciences, University of Camerino, 62032 Camerino, ItalyDepartment of Computer Science & Engineering, Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women, Delhi 110006, IndiaTelemedicine and Telepharmacy Centre, School of Medicinal and Health Products Sciences, University of Camerino, 62032 Camerino, Italy<i>Objective:</i> The largest pandemic in history, the COVID-19 pandemic, has been declared a doomsday globally. The second wave spreading worldwide has devastating consequences in every sector of life. Several measures to contain and curb its infection have forged significant challenges for the education community. With an estimated 1.6 billion learners, the closure of schools and other educational institutions has impacted more than 90% of students worldwide from the elementary to tertiary level. <i>Methods:</i> In a view to studying impacts on student’s fraternity, this article aims at addressing alternative ways of educating—more specifically, online education—through the analysis of Google trends for the past year. The study analyzed the platforms of online teaching and learning systems that have been enabling remote learning, thereby limiting the impact on the education system. Thorough text analysis is performed on an existing dataset from Kaggle to retrieve insight on the clustering of words that are more often looked at during this pandemic to find the general patterns of their occurrence. <i>Findings:</i> The results show that the coronavirus patients are the most trending patterns in word search clustering, with the education system being at the control and preventive measures to bring equilibrium in the system of education. There has been significant growth in online platforms in the last year. Existing assets of educational establishments have effectively converted conventional education into new-age online education with the help of virtual classes and other key online tools in this continually fluctuating scholastic setting. The effective usage of teaching tools such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, and WebEx are the most used online platforms for the conduction of classes, and whiteboard software tools and learning apps such as Vedantu, Udemy, Byju’s, and Whitehat Junior have been big market players in the education system over the pandemic year, especially in India. <i>Conclusions:</i> The article helps to draw a holistic approach of ongoing online teaching-learning methods during the lockdown and also highlights changes that took place in the conventional education system amid the COVID pandemic to overcome the persisting disruption in academic activities and to ensure correct perception towards the online procedure as a normal course of action in the new educational system. To fill in the void of classroom learning and to minimize the virus spread over the last year, digital learning in various schools and colleges has been emphasized, leading to a significant increase in the usage of whiteboard software platforms.https://www.mdpi.com/2036-7449/13/2/40COVID-19lockdowndigital learningeducation systemstrend analysis |
| spellingShingle | Ashwani Kumar Kansal Jyoti Gautam Nalini Chintalapudi Shivani Jain Gopi Battineni Google Trend Analysis and Paradigm Shift of Online Education Platforms during the COVID-19 Pandemic Infectious Disease Reports COVID-19 lockdown digital learning education systems trend analysis |
| title | Google Trend Analysis and Paradigm Shift of Online Education Platforms during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| title_full | Google Trend Analysis and Paradigm Shift of Online Education Platforms during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| title_fullStr | Google Trend Analysis and Paradigm Shift of Online Education Platforms during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
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| title_short | Google Trend Analysis and Paradigm Shift of Online Education Platforms during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| title_sort | google trend analysis and paradigm shift of online education platforms during the covid 19 pandemic |
| topic | COVID-19 lockdown digital learning education systems trend analysis |
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