CREATIVE EDUCATIONAL INNOVATIONS BASED ON EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING TO ENHANCE EDUCATION OF DIGITAL LEARNERS
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New teaching innovations of university instructors in the Age 4.0 are considered very important. Modern teachers should pay cautious attention to and adapt them in today’s practice so that they can integrate existing knowledge in order to produce creative educational innovations for use in promoting digital education in Thailand. In addition to the search for knowledge, analytical thinking, experiences, and expertise, there must be instructional management that is suitable for the recent era, along with the learning patterns that are well selected in accordance with the behavior of today's learners, who are regarded as digital learners. The instructors need to encourage the learners to seek knowledge by themselves, initiate challenging self-learning, create new knowledge, extend existing knowledge, think and make use of the knowledge according to the different situations and environments. Experiential learning, accordingly, is considered one of the learning styles that can encourage the learners to produce creative educational innovations by means of taking actions. By this way, the learners shall have challenges and meet with real experiences, which will enable them to extend the existing knowledge, complying with educational development under the framework of Thailand 4.0 in the 21st Century. Above all, this will also promote the learners to have essential skills in the digital age, namely, (1) Critical thinking skill, (2) Problem solving skill, (3) Creativity and innovation skill, (4) Collaboration skill, and (5) Communication information and media literacy skill.
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