Digital Media Development for Food from Banana for Lifelong Learning

Abstract

This research is the qualitative and quantitative research. The objective is to collect the research content and the food created from bananas and develop the video media to support these research results. In the qualitative research, key informants were 9 owners of banana food research, 15 experts in group meetings. The qualitative data was collected by documents together with the questionnaires and the interview with experts and group discussion. The qualitative data were analyzed by content analysis techniques. For the quantitative research, key informants were 80 community enterprises who had received the food from banana cooking courses. The quantitative data was collected by content evaluation forms and were analyzed by the statistics of frequency, percentage, and standard deviation. The research results found that the content and banana food videos consisted of research results including banana flour, 14 items of pastries and Thai desserts from banana flour and 22 items of Thai snacks, Thai desserts and bakery made from banana. The content was edited and developed into video media in order to distribute via online channel which created the continuous learning in a wide area. The content and video media had been assessed by the experts and the results showed that the content and video media were appropriate to distribute as they are the content from the studies by the people in academic departments which is reliable. It is suggested that these video medias should be published online for widespread use. Community enterprises evaluated that content and the overall video media are very appropriate. The content aspect is very appropriate and in terms of media, video is the most appropriate as well as its usefulness in the ways of self-learning and for professional application. With this video media, users can choose to learn with unlimited times and frequency. Moreover, both community enterprises and experts suggested that video media should be published via online channels. These videos from the research were published on YouTube via the channel “Banana Thai Cuisine”.