Alakh Dixit

Mr. Alakh Dixit

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
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Academic Career Length

6Years (2021-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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18 March 2021 in Sustainability
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KBKaushal Kumar Bhagat
Kaushal Kumar Bhagat
SMSanjaya Mishra
Sanjaya Mishra
ADAlakh Dixit
Alakh Dixit
Chun-Yen ChangChun-Yen Chang
Chun-Yen Chang
The aim of this study was to analyze public opinion about online learning during the COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) pandemic. A total of 154 articles from online news and blogging websites related to online learning were extracted from Google and DuckDuckGo. The articles were extracted for 45 days, starting from the day the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a worldwide pandemic, 11 March 2020. For this research, we applied the dictionary-based approach of the lexicon-based method to perform sentiment analysis on the articles extracted through web scraping. We calculated the polarity and subjectivity scores of the extracted article using the TextBlob library. The results showed that over 90% of the articles are positive, and the remaining were mildly negative. In general, the blogs were more positive than the newspaper articles; however, the blogs were more opinionated compared to the news articles.