Kansal Ashwani Kumar, Gautam Jyoti, Chintalapudi Nalini, Jain Shivani, Battineni Gopi
Kasturba Institute of Technology, Abdul Kalam Technological University, Lucknow 226031, India.
JSS Academy of Technical Education, Noida 201301, India.
Infect Dis Rep. 2021 May 12;13(2):418-428. doi: 10.3390/idr13020040.
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. 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. 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. 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.
历史上最大的疫情——新冠疫情，已在全球被宣告为一场灾难。在全球蔓延的第二波疫情给生活的各个领域都带来了毁灭性后果。多项控制和遏制疫情传播的措施给教育界带来了巨大挑战。全球约有16亿学习者，学校和其他教育机构的关闭影响了全球超过90%从小学到大学阶段的学生。为了研究对学生群体的影响，本文旨在通过分析过去一年谷歌趋势，探讨教育的替代方式——更具体地说是在线教育。该研究分析了一直支持远程学习的在线教学系统平台，从而限制对教育系统的影响。对来自Kaggle的现有数据集进行了全面的文本分析，以获取关于在这场疫情期间人们更常搜索的词汇聚类的见解，从而找出这些词汇出现的一般模式。结果表明，冠状病毒患者是词汇搜索聚类中最热门的模式，教育系统则处于采取控制和预防措施以在教育体系中实现平衡的状态。去年在线平台有了显著增长。在这个不断变化的学术环境中，教育机构的现有资产借助虚拟课程和其他关键在线工具，有效地将传统教育转变为新时代的在线教育。微软团队、Zoom、谷歌Meet和WebEx等教学工具的有效使用是最常用的在线授课平台，而白板软件工具以及Vedantu、Udemy、Byju's和Whitehat Junior等学习应用程序在疫情这一年里一直是教育系统中的大市场参与者，尤其是在印度。本文有助于勾勒出封锁期间正在进行的在线教学方法的整体情况，还突出了新冠疫情期间传统教育系统发生的变化，以克服学术活动持续受到的干扰，并确保在新的教育系统中正确看待在线教学作为正常教学方式的观念。为了填补课堂学习的空白并在去年尽量减少病毒传播，各中小学和高校都强调了数字学习，这导致白板软件平台的使用量大幅增加。
