How Attitudes Toward Online Learning Changes During Pandemic, and Reasons Behind It

Yifei Zheng; Aoze Li; Chuyi Xu; Peishan Ouyang; Changle Li

doi:10.54254/2753-7048/48/20231705

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How Attitudes Toward Online Learning Changes During Pandemic, and Reasons Behind It

Yifei Zheng ¹, Aoze Li *^,2, Chuyi Xu ³, Peishan Ouyang ⁴, Changle Li ⁵

¹ The University of Manchester
² University of California, Davis
³ Newyork University
⁴ King’s College London
⁵ RDF International School

* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7048/48/20231705

Abstract

This paper aim to understand people’s attitude toward online learning and find the reason behind it. The emergence of new coronavirus disease has revolutionized every aspect of people's lives. During the pandemic, all those who try to receive education, students, have to study online. Online learning has become a famous topic during a pandemic. People receive online education and this research is trying to find what are people’s attitude towards this new form of education and does this attitude change during pandemic. At same time, social media are heavily used as a platform for people to express their emotions. In this research, data from posts of Twitter users under the topic of online learning are analyzed using sentiment analysis and MDCOR. The results of sentiment analysis tell us the attitudes change during the pandemic and MDCOR shows potential reason behind it.

Keywords

Online learning, Sentiment analysis, Covid-19 pandemic, Twitter, emotions and attitudes

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Zheng,Y.;Li,A.;Xu,C.;Ouyang,P.;Li,C. (2024). How Attitudes Toward Online Learning Changes During Pandemic, and Reasons Behind It. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,48,237-249.

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