Investigation of the Physical Learning Environment of Distance Learning Under COVID-19 and Its Influence on Students' Health and Learning Satisfaction

Investigation of the Physical Learning Environment of Distance Learning Under COVID-19 and Its Influence on Students' Health and Learning Satisfaction

Lixin Zhao, Wu-Yuin Hwang, Timothy K. Shih
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/IJDET.20210401.oa4
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Most undergraduates in Mainland China receive distance education from home because of the COVID-19 outbreak. The unique physical environment of distance learning may have effects not only on student learning but also on student physical and mental health. This study reviewed related studies of the physical learning environment and its influence on learners' physical and mental health. Using factor analysis, the authors developed a questionnaire to measure students' perceptions towards their physical learning environment and their physical and mental health and verified the reliability. Regression analysis was used to explore the influence of physical environment perception on physical health and mental health perception, as well as the predictive ability of these three factors on learning satisfaction. The results of this study provide researchers and educators with insight into learners' perceptions of the physical learning environment and their physical and mental health under COVID-19 and offer suggestions for improving distance-learning satisfaction.
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One of the focus points of existing studies on learning environment is the study of social and social psychological environment. For example, Cleveland & Fisher (2014) reviewed 9 questionnaires on the social psychological environment of classroom learning, which measured such social psychological environmental factors as cohesiveness, diversity, independence, and teacher support. The few studies on the environment of online education also focused on social psychological environment and interaction. Sahin (2007) developed a distance education learning environments survey (DELES) to analyse the characteristics of online learning environments. Trinidad, Aldridge, and Fraser (2005) integrated the four existing scales and developed the online learning environment survey (OLES), a tool to measure the learning environment perception in e-learning, involving eight factors. However, neither of their studies took into account the physical environment.

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