The Process of Knowledge Management on Dramatic Arts for High School Students: A Case Study on Instructional Website through a Blended Learning System

Abstract

While dramatic arts in Thai universities has been developed as a department since 1970,dramatic arts in the high school level has not yet appeared in the curriculum as a compulsorysubject, and there is no official textbook. Even though there have been many school plays aroundBangkok, there are only a few schools with supportive policies regarding dramatic arts in the form ofa drama club. Interviewing the drama club students from Vajiravudh College, Assumption College,Samsenwittayalai School, and Satriwithaya School, the researcher has found that they strugglewithknowledge resources due to few accessible and reliable online websites and advisors with nodramatic arts background.From an in-depth interview of drama club students and observation of their club hours,the knowledge of dramatic arts has been identified, codified and created specially for the highschool students concerning their knowledge culture and background. The development of aninstructional website through a blended learning system aims to be a student-friendly resourcethat serves the students’ needs for school production enhancing their skills in various aspects.As a result, the synthesized knowledge has been presented in text and video form. While theevaluation has shown that the students enjoy learning by watching video rather than reading bythemselves, the blended learning method plays a very important role in making sure that they can understand what they need to know. However, the website should be continually active withthe development of its design, language use of the text, and functions. Furthermore, the dramaclub network should be developed along with the website while creating the knowledge networkthrough knowledge management.