Abstract:
The purposes of this dissertation were 1) to synthesize a model of content and
activity blended learning (CABL) for COMPUTER PROGRAMMING 1 and COMPUTER
PROGRAMMING AND ALGORITHM courses, 2) to develop a instructional course
based on the synthesized model for COMPUTER PROGRAMMING 1 and COMPUTER
PROGRAMMING AND ALGORITHM courses, 3) to investigate the efficiency of the
developed instructional course based on the synthesized model, 4) to compare
students learning achievement between experimental and control groups, and 5) to
evaluate students satisfaction toward to the instructional course and learning
management environment.
This dissertation proposed a significant framework of developing a content and
activity blended learning model. Such a framework consisted of two principal processes;
synthesizing and developing a model, and implementing a model. The former process
comprised of five phases: 1) selecting topics of blended contents, 2) determining the
index of congruence of blended contents, 3) analyzing and synthesizing blended
content proportions, 4) designing learning activities for blended contents, and
5) developing the content blended learning model, while the latter process contains
three phases: 1) developing the instructional course for the content and activity blended
learning model, 2) evaluating the developed instructional course, and 3) implementing
the developed instructional course.
In this dissertation, there were two sample groups. The former group comprised of
47 teaching experts, 20 content experts, and 10 learning-and-teaching experts, whereas
the latter group comprised of 30 students for a developed instructional course
validation, 40 students for an experimental group, and 40 students for a control group.
The findings reveal that the efficiency of the developed instructional course based
on the synthesized model is 85.45/81.32 higher than the 80/80 criteria; the learning
achievement of the experimental group is greatly improved when compared with the
control group at the statistically significant level; and the experimental students
satisfaction toward to the developed instructional course and learning management
environment is at the high level ( X =4.23, S.D.=0.20). In addition, the learning
management based on the content and activity blended learning approach can reduce
many learning resources, such as class period, teaching staff, classroom utilization, and
public utility