Active Learning: Instructional Approaches on Preparing Thai Learners to the 21st Century Post Pandemic (Covid-19) Crisis

Abstract

Active Learning is an instructional method that focuses on students being able to create knowledge on their own by linking and integrating existing knowledge, teachers need to reshape their role from those who are centered on learning to those who facilitate the classroom (facilitator), counsel during teaching activities (coach), learn along with the learners (co-learner), motivate learners to have a positive attitude towards learning (motivator), value their studies, and be a person who continues to learn on their own throughout their lives. In addition, teachers must modify the process of organizing learning activities, learning techniques, measuring, and evaluating them varietally to stimulate the interests of the learners and to create a lively learning atmosphere that focuses on engaging students in all elements of teaching and learning to create an experience for students from hands-on activity. At the same time, learners themselves have to change their role from those who receive knowledge (receiver) to those who create knowledge themselves (co-creator) by offering opinions, debating, discussing both individual and group work, which contributes to critical thinking skills and problem-solving skills (critical thinking and problem solving) in group and form leadership (collaboration teamwork and Leadership), innovative skills (creativity and innovation), as well as other skills needed to learn in the 21st century. The world in the 21st century was an era when the world faced many changes. The COVID-19 crisis is another example of events that transcend human predictions. Reorienting educational direction with the application of hands-on learning management methods is a way to develop the skills needed for young people to be ready and able to move firmly into the world of the 21st century, who are resilient and able to adapt to future uncertainties.