IMPROVING STUDENT LEARNING MOTIVATION BY BLENDING ONLINE LEARNING WITH ONSITE LABORATORY COURSE: CASE STUDY OF DIAMOND GRADING COURSE

Diamond grading is a compulsory course of bachelor degree in gems and jewelry program, provided at College of Creative Industry, Srinakharinwirot University (Thailand). Since the first place, the practices of diamond grading skills and lecture have been given onsite by the lecturers. The learning outcomes of the course are to make students be able to grade the diamond in the right quality and to apply in their future career. However, students in the digital era are lack of motivation for lectures and repeating practices. Online learning approaches have been used in the sample class on the purpose to make students show more motivation and get better skills in diamond grading. The sample class has been voluntarily test the level of motivation and understanding the subjects by onsite teaching, comparing to the result after used the online tools blending with the face-to-face teaching. The result showed that students show more interesting in the subjects with online tools. Moreover, some students have showed interest in continue build up an online tools for gems and jewelry education.