Development of a Collaborative Online Training Program to Enhance Teaching Students' Digital Skills for the Diploma in Teaching Professional Program
Year: 2026
Type: article
Study design: Clinical Trial
Abstract: The research aimed to 1) develop and evaluate the quality of a collaborative online training program to enhance digital skills for students in the Graduate Diploma in Teaching Profession program 2) investigate the effects of implementing this program on digital skills. 3) To examine the satisfaction of students. This study employed a pre-experimental research design using a one group pretest posttest design. The population consisted of 178 graduate diploma students in teacher education enrolled during the second semester of the 2024 academic year, distributed across six classes. The sample comprised 25 students from one class enrolled in the same program and semester. The sample was selected using cluster random sampling. The research instruments included 1) The collaborative online training program to enhance digital skills of four modules.2) The digital skills assessment. 3) A satisfaction survey. The statistical analyses employed in this research included means, standard deviations, dependent samples t-test, and one-sample t-test. The research results were found as follows; 1) The collaborative online training program was developed through a needs analysis and design phase. The quality evaluation results showed the program was at the highest level, with mean of 4.67 and a standard deviation of 0.63. 2) After the experiment, it was found that the effects of implementing a program to enhance digital skills were significantly different at the 0.05 level. The results surpassed the 80% threshold. 3) The students' satisfaction was at its highest level. The study highlights that a collaborative online training program effectively enhanced the digital skills of students in the graduate diploma in teaching profession program, and the students expressed the highest degree of satisfaction with the training.
Author: Karanyathikul, Angkana
Institution: Valaya Alongkorn Rajabhat University
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7219259873