Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Innovation (ICLI 2017)

The Utilization of Wonorejo Mangrove Ecotourism Area as a Contextual Learning Source

Authors
Sri Murtini, Mrs Sumarmi, I Komang Astina, Dwiyono Utomo
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Sri Murtini
Available Online October 2017.
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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Innovation (ICLI 2017)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
October 2017
ISBN
978-94-6252-460-6
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icli-17.2018.18How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 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/).

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