Guidelines for distance education via satellite According to the Buddhist principles of School network group 4, Mueang Nakhon Sawan District Nakhon Sawan Province (Pak Nam Pho Network) Nakhon Sawan Primary Educational Service Area Office District 1 -

Abstract

Abstract

The objectives of this study were: 1) to study the status of the management of the distance education VIA Satellite (DLTV) of School Network Group 4, Mueang Nakhon Sawan District, Nakhon Sawan Province (Pak Nam Pho Network), Nakhon Sawan Primary Educational Service Area Office 1, and 2) to make the guidelines for the management of the distance education VIA Satellite (DLTV) of School Network Group 4, Mueang Nakhon Sawan District, Nakhon Sawan Province (Pak Nam Pho Network), Nakhon Sawan Primary Educational Service Area Office 1. This research applied Mixed Methods Research consisting of Qualitative Research and Quantitative Research. The sample was 115 administrators and teachers from 11 schools in School Network Group 4, Mueang Nakhon Sawan District, Nakhon Sawan Province (Pak Nam Pho Network), and 9 key informants. The research instruments were the questionnaire and the Semi-structured Interviews.  The data analysis used content analysis. The statistics used frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation.

The research results were as follows:

(1) The status of the management of the distance education VIA Satellite (DLTV) of School Network Group 4, Mueang Nakhon Sawan District, Nakhon Sawan Province (Pak Nam Pho Network), Nakhon Sawan Primary Educational Service Area Office 1 found that overall, it was at a high level. When considering each aspect, it was found that planning, operation, evaluation, and improvement were at a high level. (2) The guidelines for the management of the distance education VIA Satellite (DLTV) of School Network Group 4, Mueang Nakhon Sawan District, Nakhon Sawan Province (Pak Nam Pho Network), Nakhon Sawan Primary Educational Service Area Office 1 consisted of the 1^st aspect was the planning: the administrators motivated the personnel and related people in planning, made the understanding, realized the importance and advantage of teaching and learning, and set policies, vision, and mission in promoting the teaching and learning management together by the distance education VIA Satellite to the implementation together, the 2^nd aspect was the operation: the administrators shared the work for the personnel suitably to the knowledge, capability, and skill useful to develop the teachers and personnel, made the realization and understanding in the teaching and learning management, set vision or strategies, provide the committee for helping, solving the problems, or supporting the teaching and learning management by the distance education VIA Satellite of the schools, the 3nd aspect was the evaluation: the teachers and students specified the pattern and method of evaluation together, the administrators should provide the community activities or learning society, evaluate the projects and activities in the teaching and learning management at least once a year, and evaluate the application of the knowledge for developing the teachers and personnel in the teaching and learning management by the distance education VIA Satellite at least once a year, and the 4^th aspect was the improvement: the administrators and teachers developed the system of DLTV teaching and learning continuously and systematically together, improve the distance education VIA Satellite with the information from evaluating the distance education VIA Satellite by analyzing the strength and the development, and exchanged and learnt the results of internal supervision for the planning and development.

Keywords: distance education via satellite ; the Buddhist principles; Pak Nam Pho Network