Development of Collaborative Blended Learning Activity on Mobile Learning to Enhance Undergraduate Students’ Collaboration Skills

Abstract

        The study was to development of collaborative blended learning activity on mobile learning to enhance undergraduate students’ collaboration skills. The study was undertaken in two phases: (1) development of collaborative blended learning activity on mobile learning, and (2) study of the result of collaborative blended learning activity on mobile learning. The samples of the study were 35 undergraduate students enrolling for Infomation Technology for Education course in Silpakorn University. Percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, and t-test were used to analyze the data.

               The findings of the study were as follows:

1. The developed collaborative blended learning activity on mobile learning consisted of two components included; activity components consisted of 6 element: (1) students (2) teacher (3) mobile device (4) content (5) mobile learning management system and (6) assessment. Learning process consisted of preparation before the instruction including three steps: (1) orientation (2) pre-test and (3) students grouping. The learning with collaborative blended learning activity including five steps: (1) work defining (2) work planning (3) work operating (4) work presentation and (5) discussion and summarize. The assessment including two steps: (1) post-test and (2) collaboration skills evaluation.


2. The students’ collaboration skills appeared to be at a highest level after being exposed to the developed learning activity.


3. The students who had been learning based on the developed collaborative blended learning activity on mobile learning had higher learning achievement at statistical significance of .01.


4. The students had a highest level of satisfaction toward the developed collaborative blended learning activity on mobile learning.