Examination of trends in education with the Google Books Ngram Viewer

Abstract

In the modern world there has been change in education environment and education technologies, which has led to new concepts and tendencies in training and education. The purpose of this research is to explore evolution of terminology in distance, open, online education and learning. The change in use of the terminology is analysed through the Google Books Ngram Viewer that allows to define frequency of the use of the terms in six publications corpora for the certain period. The research identifies tendencies of the use of the terms in the sphere of education in different language groups compared and reveals interrelation between the change in the use of the terminology and economic, social, political and technological factors.

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“…used to indicate a profession within an utterance. Word mentions have been previously used to study trends of different societal functions, for example, education, culture, and language use patterns [ 20 – 22 ]. Michel et al introduced the Google Books corpus, which contains digitized copies of more than five million books [ 23 ].…”