Enhancement of multimedia education through practical rural development project: The case study of Royal Project Sa Ngo

Abstract

This paper aims to reveal that an integration of Problem Based Learning (PBL) with encouraging students' motivation is the key factor to increase the students' motivation working throughout the long term project, to improve a better classroom environment, and to enhance the quality of students' works. PBL approach is a learning method which students learn from an experience of problem solving. Students have to learn about planning, critical thinking and decision making while doing various activities in PBL environment. However, only the PBL approach itself is not the effective way to grab students' attention in learning. The best time to learn for student is when they have an intrinsic motivation on the particular focus. Thus, encouraging motivation along with the PBL approach is needed in doing the film production project. The data of students' attitude toward this integration were collected from pre- and post- project questionnaire while the film quality of this Royal Project Sa Ngo project was evaluated by 5 professional experts. The result has shown that the integration of PBL approach with encouraging students' motivation was a better learning method comparing with the traditional PBL approach. In term of classroom environment, the students agree that the intrinsic motivation assists them in handling with each step of their project effectively. In addition, the quality of students' work had improved from the previous project which was conducted with the traditional PBL method only. In conclusion, the combination between the PBL approach and encouraging students' motivation assisted the students to work enthusiastically throughout the project with the better classroom environment and the high quality of work.