Development of Interactive Courseware for Learning Basic Computer System Components
- 1 University Tun Hussein Onn, Malaysia
Abstract
A computer assisted learning approach was developed to enhance course material for students to learn about computer components, through the use of multimedia courseware. Recent advances in software authoring packages have made the production of CD-ROMs an efficient and effective educational strategy. Problem statement: This study reports on the development an evaluation of this courseware related to the learning basic computer system components through the use of courseware (iC-COM). The purpose of the study was to evaluate a courseware for learning basic computer system components. The basic components of iC-COM included an interface, graphics, sound effects, narration and video. Approach: The iC-COM was developed based on the ADDIE instructional system design model. The research instrument was the courseware evaluation in the form of questionnaire that consisted of various attributes included content, interactivity, navigation and screen design which distributed to 50 computer system and support programme students of Kolej Komuniti Jasin. Results: Based on the results, it was shown that the analysis results of each questionnaire item mean ranged from 3.5 to 3.8. Conclusion/Recommendations: For future enhancement, it is recommended that iC-COM will be integrated into web-based platform so it can be accessed easily anywhere.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajebasp.2011.132.138
Copyright: © 2011 Ida Aryanie Bahrudin, Muziah Muhammad, Mohd Izzaddin Abu Nawawi, Isma Najwa Saharudin, Haniza Mohd Din, Mohd Azuan Ali and Mohd Ezree Abdullah. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords
- Interactive courseware
- CD-ROM
- computer system
- enhance course
- educational strategy