Blended Training Course to Develop E-learning Lessons for Instructors with Less IT Experience

Abstract

The purposes of this research were: to develop the model of blended training course to develop e-learning lessons for instructors with less IT experience and to construct the blended training course to develop e-learning lessons for instructors with less IT experience. The target group in this study consisted of 22 instructors who were not graduated in the field of IT working in the vocational colleges of Nakornsi-Thammarat Province. The results can be concluded as follows: 1. The model of blended training course to develop e-learning lessons for instructors with less IT experience consisted of 5 main parts, i.e. a. principles, concepts, and theories in lesson construction, b. the process of training course development, c. e-learning lesson construction, d.instrument for developing e-learning lessons, and e. evaluation of e-learning lessons. 2. The developed model was evaluated by CIPP Model showing that the context evaluation revealed high needs on the training reported by teachers with less IT experience. Moreover, the results of the interview with the specialists showed that they all agreed with implementing the developed training model in the real situation. The input evaluation showed that the developed training course was highly appropriate with high congruency evaluation of the training contents and the training media. The process evaluation showed that the trainees achieved in the theoretical part at the average of 82.75/81.94 higher than the set standard at 80/80. Moreover, the trainees reported high satisfaction on the training course. The product evaluation can be concluded that 1. The achievement of the 22 trainees in this course evaluated by trainers was 82.33 higher than the set criteria. 2. The supervisors of the trainees reported high satisfaction on their developed e-learning lessons. 3. The students reported high satisfaction on the developed e-learning lessons. With the results shown above, it can be concluded that the developed training program reached high efficiency according to the research hypothesis.