The Development of Experiential Learning Activities with a Virtual Classroom to Promote the Creative Thinking Skills of the First Year Students of the Faculty of Digital Media in the Subject of History of Design

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to design and develop experiential learning activities with virtual classrooms in history of design course to promote creative skills of the 1^st year students, and 2) to measure the creative thinking skills of the first-year undergraduate students in the course of design history. The samples used in this research were 110 first-year undergraduate students from the Faculty of Digital Media using cluster sampling. The research instruments consisted of 5 plans of experiential learning activities with virtual classrooms with a fitness value of 4.66, and 2) a creative skill assessment form. The statistics used for data analysis consisted of mean with the consistency index between 0.67-1.00. The research findings were as follows: 1) an experiential learning activity plan with a virtual classroom to promote creative skills under the learning management cycle of David Kolb, by adjusting and designing learning characteristics into 3 characteristics was effective according to the specified criteria, 2) the creative skill assessed by the experimental activities compared to the specified criteria was at a very good level, overall.