The Development of Online Courses for Enhancing Learning on Khoncology during the COVID-19 Pandemic under the New Normal

Abstract

The study aimed 1) to develop and analyze the efficiency of online courses for enhancing learning on Khoncology during the COVID-19 pandemic under the new normal, 2) to compare the education’s achievement before and after learning with the online courses and 3) to study the satisfaction of the students who had learnt with the online courses. The Sample group were 80 freshman students majoring Thai Classical Dance Education, the faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi who enrolled in the subject code 07211001: Khoncology in the 2^nd semester of 2021. The sample group was selected by Purposive Sampling, the research tools were the online courses for enhancing learning on Khoncology, the developmental test for the online courses, pre-test and post-test on the learning with online courses and the satisfaction surveys after learning with the online courses. The statistics used in this study were Percentage, Means, Standard Deviation and the T-test for the dependent sample.

The study found that the online courses for enhancing learning on Khoncology consisted of seven lessons, had an average efficiency as per criterion of 87.19/83.15, and that the efficiency after learning with the online courses was higher than the efficiency before learning. The mean score before learning with the online courses was 17.95, and the SD was 3.56. The mean after learning with the online courses was at 23.31, and the SD was at 2.89. The study also indicated that the t-test score between before and after learning with the online courses was at 13.60, with the statistical significance difference at 0.05, and the mean of the students’ satisfaction after learning with the online courses for enhancing learning on Khoncology during the COVID-19 pandemic under the new normal was at 4.58, with the SD at 0.54, which is considered the highest level.