The Utilization of Wonorejo Mangrove Ecotourism Area as a Contextual Learning Source
- DOI
- 10.2991/icli-17.2018.18How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- suitability, effectiveness, mangrove ecotourism area
- Abstract
Wonorejo ecotourism area has not yet been utilized as a learning source. Regarding to this fact, this study was intended at investigating the suitability of Wonorejo ecotourism area as a learning source, and the effectiveness of Wonorejo ecotourism area as a learning source. This study was conducted under the research and development procedure proposed by Borg &Gall. The subjects of this study included 32 university students majoring Geography who were divided into A class as the experimental class, and B class for the control class. This study employed a quasi-experimental design of which data were obtained from interviews and tests. Validations were done by an expert of learning materials to see the suitability of the area for education and T-test was administered to see its effectiveness. This research showed that the Wonorejo ecotourism area is highly effective to be used as a contextual learning source for students with 90.0 % average score. As a learning source, Wonorejo ecotourism area is also effective to improve the learning achievement of the undergraduate students majoring Geography of 2014 academic year in the Geography of Tourism subject.
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Sri Murtini AU - Mrs Sumarmi AU - I Komang Astina AU - Dwiyono Utomo PY - 2017/10 DA - 2017/10 TI - The Utilization of Wonorejo Mangrove Ecotourism Area as a Contextual Learning Source BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Innovation (ICLI 2017) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 87 EP - 90 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icli-17.2018.18 DO - 10.2991/icli-17.2018.18 ID - Murtini2017/10 ER -