We were inspired as students facing the unprecedented mode of online learning in a third world country such as Pakistan. The problems we went through as undergraduate students putting out fires as we went along was the reason we decided to analyze the problem and maybe try and solve it.
This paper is a data driven effort to provide valuable insights to the stake-holders of Forman Christian College about the validity, sustainability and ethicality of distance learning. The pandemic of 2019 has fostered a dystopian society and has propelled educational institutions into unforeseen circumstances. The two year continuation of Covid-19 has separated prepared institutions from the unprepared. As the world looks to reinstate a semblance of normalcy, this paper institutes a reflective eye and recognizes that basing predictions on information acquired during this transitional phase will ultimately increase effectiveness in the plausible future. Considerations ranging from surveys to sentimental analysis of tweets to the history and adoption of online learning have been reflected on to conclude on the central research question. The findings from this data have included the overall perceptions regarding online learning by students. Moreover, the tweets garnered reflected the sentiments surrounding distance learning on a global level. Tertiarily the rate of adoption of online learning has been considered to show the inevitability in the future of this new mode of teaching. Finally multifaceted data has been gathered, assessed and inferred upon to give a substantial recommendation on the future of distance learning.
Stanford's data set was provided late, gathering enough responses was a huge problem as we ended up dealing with a relatively smaller demographic. Streamlining the sentimental analysis was nothing short of a problem.
We are proud of the fact that we were able to write a research paper in a week, with our final product that is able to help reform online education not in our institute but all over Pakistan.
We learned using Github, Weka, sentimental analysis, considering we're beginner level students with preliminary knowledge of statistics is a huge accomplishments. We learned new visualization methods and NLP. We learned that people's perceptions of online learning are conflicting and there is a wide variety of opinions and arguments.
We aim to conduct a pilot study in our own university to see if the recommendations we made can actually make the improvements we hypothesized and try and validate the questions that were raised
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- python
- weka
- xl
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