21st Century Learning Activities and Skills for Maejo University Students

Abstract

This study aims to organize the learning activities to enhance the 21st century learning skills and to study the effects of the learning activities to enhance the mentioned skills. The samples, selected from the multi-stage sampling method, consisted of 333 bachelor’s degree students from 3 sections of Maejo University during the 1st semester of the 2016 academic year enrolling in the Psychology and Human Behavior course. Data collecting and analysis were done by qualitative and quantitative methods.

The results found that 1. the learning activities organizing to enhance the 21st century learning skills comprised of 6 topics: 1.1 the teacher attributes, 1.2 the preparations for learner, 1.3 teach less, learn more, 1.4 the discipline of responsibility in learning, 1.5 the media and innovation in learning activities organizing, and 1.6 the evaluation and giving positive feedback. 2. The results of qualitative data revealed that after applying the learning activities to enhance the 21st century learning skills, the students have acquired the 21st century learning skills in overall dimensions conforming to quantitative data. It showed that 2.1 the 21st century learning skills of student both in overall image and in each dimension were significantly different referring to the pretest and post-test (P < .001). 2.2 the different groups of student’s achievements were not significantly different in the 21st century learning skills after used the learning activities to enhance the 21st century learning skills. 2.3 students’ attitude towards the learning activities to enhance the 21st century learning skills was at “agree” ( X = 4.87) in overall view.