The Development of Social Networking to Enhance Skills for Creating Augmented Reality based Instructional Media

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to 1) develop the social networking instructional strategy to increase skills for creating Augmented Reality based based instructional media 2) compare pre- and post- course learning achievement through the implementation of the social networking strategy to enhanced the stated skills and 3) investigate learner satisfaction toward learning through the implementation of such technique. Through conventional cluster sampling method, the sample for the study comprised 56 participants including 30 first-year undergraduates from Department of Educational Technology and Communications, Faculty of Technical Education, Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi, and 26 third-year undergraduates from Department of Educational Technology, Faculty of Education, Chandrakasem Rajabhat University. As a results (1) the quality of media, presentation features of the AR-based instructional media, alongside the quality of content achieved the highest ratings; 2) the post-learning achievement test scores were significantly higher than that in the pre-test (p< .05); and 3) the overall learner satisfaction toward the method manipulation was revealed at the highest level.