DEVELOPMENT OF MOBILE TRAINING APPLICATION TO INCREASE DIGITAL LITERACY FOR GOVERNMENT OFFICERS OF THE MINISTRY OF HIGHER EDUCATION, SCIENCE, RESEARCH AND INNOVATION การพัฒนาโมบายแอปพลิเคชันการฝึกอบรมเพื่อส่งเสริมสมรรถนะทักษะด้านดิจิทัล สำหรับข้าราชการกระทรวงการอุดมศึกษา วิทยาศาสตร์ วิจัยและนวัตกรรม
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The study contains three major purposes in 1) developing an effective mobile training application that aimed enhance digital literacy of government officers who currently worked in Academic Affairs Department of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation (MHESRI) 2) comparing levels of digital literacy of government officers before and after participating through a mobile training application and 3) exploring attitudes of government officers towards a mobile training application. Participants of this study were 30 government official practitioner who selected by simple random sampling method. The research instruments were 1) a mobile training application for enhancing digital literacy competency, 2) digital literacy achievement test, and 3) attitude survey. The findings results of the assessment of mobile training application quality from educational technology experts found that it is most suitable ( = 4.96, SD = 0.08) and then revealed that the mean score of digital literacy of participants was significantly higher after they participated in a mobile training application at significantly level at .05. All participants agreed that a mobile application that included a training platform could improve their digital literacy competency but important obstacles that affected their abilities highlighted on difference types and system of mobile tools and low power of Internet signals.
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