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Which qualities should built environment possess to ensure satisfaction of higher-education students with remote education during pandemics?

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The built environment may be considered a complex system comprising several parts (including people, organizations, and physical structures). Since the emergence of the COVID-19 virus in recent years, there has been an explosion in the usage of mobile learning applications for classroom instruction. Research on the diffusion of mobile learning is lacking. This study examines the perceptions and experiences of many aspects of online education from the viewpoint of Chinese HEIs and university students who shifted to online modes of instruction during the COVID-19 outbreak. This research aimed to determine whether or not college students were happy with the resources available to them, how their teachers communicated with them, how they were evaluated, and the conditions in which they studied at home. It also looked at the pros and cons of online learning from the students’ points of view. For this study, researchers opted for a cross-sectional survey using an online questionnaire. Information was gathered from 450 students from different Chinese tertiary institutions. To this end, we reflect on the experiences and perspectives of postgraduate students in urban design and discuss the results of an online survey conducted during the 2021–2022 academic year’s subject delivery period, which included activities such as assessment, feedback, field study visits, workshops, and the use of digital platforms. PLS-SEM, which stands for partial least square structural equation modeling, is used in order to evaluate the proposed model. Therefore, the findings show that the research model offered for this investigation could explain the diversity in the actual use of mobile learning systems. This would provide helpful insight into the effect of educational, environmental, and quality factors on the actual use of remote education systems. It was shown that quality concerns acted as a mediator between institutional policy, change management, and the implementation of mobile learning systems in actual classrooms. The findings also indicate that the level of pleasure students feel acts as a moderating factor between the degree to which the mobile learning system is used and its overall level of quality. According to the findings of these studies, academic institutions may enhance their use of mobile learning applications and get more benefits from these systems if they adhere to the suggestions stated in these studies.

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Shaobin Weng: conceptualization, data curation, and methodology. Yuanyuan Qin: writing — original draft, data curation, visualization, supervision, editing, writing — review and editing, and software.

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Weng, ., Qin, Y. Which qualities should built environment possess to ensure satisfaction of higher-education students with remote education during pandemics?. Environ Sci Pollut Res 30, 102504–102518 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-29118-z

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