Courseware Development for University Instructors: Problem-Based Learning for Teaching Management

Abstract

The purposes of this study were to (1) develop a courseware for university instructors entitled
Using Problem-Based Learning for Teaching Management and (2) survey the subjects’ opinions
about the developed courseware. The subjects were 21 course instructors whose work related to
the School of Educational Studies at Sukhothai Thammathirat University. The research
instruments were a developed courseware and a questionnaire on the subjects’ opinions on the 5-
level Likert’s Scale, containing 18 positive-opinion questions, and open-ended questions. The
obtained data were analyzed by the SPSS/PC+ program to get primary statistics namely
frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation. The results of this study were: (1) the
courseware entitled Using Problem-Based Learning for Teaching Management for university
instructors developed by the researcher consisted of the interactive pre-test, the contents with
sound tracks, the video of the example of the teaching management in Life Science Physics and
the interactive post-test, and (2) the subjects’ overall opinions were at a strongly agreed level
(Mean =4.03, S.D. = .63).