Interactive Multimedia Courseware Research Articles

Teacher Managerial Strategy in Building Character Education During The Covid-19 Pandemic

This research aims to analyze various managerial strategies of teachers in instilling character education in children during the Covid-19 pandemic. Research methods of literature review by looking for theoretical references relevant to the case or problem found, namely the managerial strategy of the teacher in strengthening character with the aim as a consideration in choosing and determining the appropriate strategy to use in accordance with its effectiveness and the ability of the teacher to implement it. The results showed that some of the managerial strategies of teachers in strengthening character education are to choose various methods applied online and offline. Online character strengthening activities include the involvement of various innovations in online learning methods through various interesting content, interactive multimedia courseware, portfolios, whatsapp class groups, google classes, sevima delink, virtual applications such as zoom meeting, google meeting, local live TV, Youtube, social media management, e-learning system management, character control books (chacker characters), Character games, establishing intense communication over seluller phones. As conclusion that character strengthening that can be done offline is home visit, raport character, school on a certain day, curricular, extracurricular and co-curricular activities listed in the vision and mission of the curriculum, routine activities in school order, spontaneous activities in the rules, planned activities in school programs, transparency contained in the school order and report card and development of organizational activities.

EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA COURSEWARE IN TEACHING CARE MANAGEMENT

The effectiveness of multimedia courseware optimizes teaching care management will provide knowledge in the global world. The progress of students’ rights and civilization is acceptable and is universal and effective in influencing the standard quality of learning among the care management students. The study identifies the effectiveness of interactive multimedia courseware in teaching care management and aims to know its importance, effectiveness and enhancement of students' learning process. The study employed the qualitative and quantitative descriptive approach which is a mixed-method to identify the effectiveness of interactive multimedia courseware in care management practices, using the Focus Group Discussion (FGD) among the Clinical Instructors who have the capacity and ability to analyze the effectiveness of interactive multimedia courseware for the improvement program of the care management students. Purposive sampling is utilized in the study which closely resembled and synthesized the objectives of the study. The study comprised (90) respondents only. Results show that interactive multimedia courseware enhances the difference from teaching traditional to high-tech of teaching which is interesting for the students inside the classroom and it shows that multimedia courseware enhances students in their learning process through exposure to technology, innovation and promotion, concept and control, and its effectiveness in the improved and delivery of course outline and output. Findings show that is a significant correlation on the interactive multimedia courseware in teaching care management as observed by the respondents.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0923/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

Diagnosing Pilgrimage Common Diseases by Interactive Multimedia Courseware

In this study, we attempt to provide healthcare service to the pilgrims. This study describes how a multimedia courseware can be used in making the pilgrims aware of the common diseases that are present in Saudi Arabia during the pilgrimage. The multimedia courseware will also be used in providing some information about the symptoms of these diseases, and how each of them can be treated. The multimedia courseware contains a virtual representation of a hospital, some videos of actual cases of patients, and authentic learning activities intended to enhance health competencies during the pilgrimage. An examination of the courseware was conducted so as to study the manner in which the elements of the courseware are applied in real-time learning. More so, in this research, a discussion on the most dangerous diseases which may occur during the season of pilgrimage is provided. The use of the multimedia course is able to effectively and efficiently provide information to the pilgrims about these diseases. This technology performs this task by using the knowledge that has been accumulated from past experience, particularly in the field of disease diagnosis, medicine and treatment. The courseware has been created using an authoring tool known as ToolBook instructor to provide pilgrims with quality service.

Application of Multimedia Interactive Technology in Network Courseware

<p>With the development of my country’s economy and society, my country’s education is also constantly developing, especially since the reform of the new curriculum standards, my country’s education has developed more rapidly. This article mainly introduces the interactive technology of multimedia courseware. First, by consulting relevant literature, I fully understand the technology and application of interactive multimedia courseware in teaching, and then understand the advantages of using this technology in teaching, and then use cases to teach<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">, </span>using interactive multimedia courseware and not using interactive multimedia courseware for analysis, and based on relevant theoretical knowledge, put forward some corresponding strategies and opinions on interactive multimedia courseware teaching methods.</p>

PENGGUNAAN PERISIAN KURSUS MULTIMEDIA INTERAKTIF UNTUK MENINGKATKAN PEMIKIRAN ALGEBRA DALAM MURID-MURID TAHUN 4

Multimedia technology impacts and creates interactive learning between students and teachers as well as information technology creates a conducive environment for active learning. According to an assessment done by Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (2011), cognitive skills such as application and reasoning need to be improved among Malaysian. Hence, it is important to implement these skills among students at the primary school level who will be changing from concrete arithmetic to the symbolic language of algebra as stated in Pelan Pembangunan Pendidikan Malaysia (2013-2025). The rationale of this study is to expose year four students in the field of Algebra to the understanding of variables, expressions, and equations. Algebra thinking courseware is used as a teaching aid to facilitate learning and teaching. This research includes the understanding and mastering Algebra thinking in the learning and teaching approach in Mathematics subject Year 4. The first objective of the study is to design and produce interactive multimedia courseware using the ADDIE model (Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluate). The second objective is to study the effectiveness of interactive multimedia thinking courseware by using the Kieran framework (2016) in improving the thinking concept of Algebra among year 4 students. A quasi-experimental design was applied to the treatment group and the control group. The sample size used was 84 students, who are from SJKT Menglembu School and SJKT Desa Pinji. The findings of the post-test clearly show that learning through Algebra thinking courseware has successfully improved the level of Algebra thinking which the mean for the treatment group was 14.69 (SD:2.694) while the pre-test of the mean for the treatment group was 6.76 (SD:2.750). Studies on Algebra thinking need to be extended by involving a larger sample size and ensure that such studies can be used via information technology media to improve the teaching and learning process at the primary school level.

Development of Interactive Multimedia Learning Courseware to Strengthen Students’ Character

<p style="text-align:justify">The development of information technology rapidly has an impact on the changing paradigm of education. On the other hand, education holds an important responsibility to create students who have a good and strong character. This research aims to: 1) describe the concept and framework of interactive multimedia courseware; 2) test the feasibility of interactive multimedia courseware by experts and practitioners; 3) test student responses to the use of interactive multimedia courseware. This research and development involved experts, teachers, and students. The data were collected using expert validation sheets, teacher questionnaires, and student questionnaires. They were then analyzed using the descriptive statistics analysis based on mean and percentage. This research yielded interactive multimedia courseware called IMONEC (Interactive Multimedia courseware integrated with Bandura’s Observational learning model and National historical Event to strengthen students' Character) that integrates three important components: the principles of interactive multimedia learning; Bandura's observational learning model; and the noble values and messages of national historical events to strengthen students' characters. The framework of the interactive multimedia courseware consists of the title, user instruction, home, core competency and basic competency, concept map of material, learning material, and quizzes. The results of the expert validation, teacher questionnaire, and student questionnaire showed that the interactive multimedia courseware is feasible for use in learning and effective in strengthening students’ characters.</p>

The Moderating Effect of Prior Knowledge on Higher Order Thinking Skills in the Interactive Multimedia Learning Environment

This study aims to identify the moderating effect of prior knowledge on the achievement of form four Biology students (aged 16 years) in Malaysia in higher order thinking skills, classifying skills, comparing and contrasting skills and problem solving skills. To this end, a quasi?experimental design was used. The sample consists of 181 respondents where 90 respondents were assigned to the experimental group and 91 respondents comprised the control group. The respondents were selected by a four-stage cluster sampling. The experimental group was subjected to learn Nutrition through an interactive multimedia courseware named Nutri-Score, whereas the control group learnt the topic traditionally. Pre-test and post-test consisting of one short item question and three essay questions based on Rubrics for Specific Tasks or Situations from Marzano Model were designed to measure the respondents’ achievement. Findings revealed a positive effect on the experimental group's achievement in higher order thinking skills, classifying skills, comparing and contrasting skills but not in problem solving skills. Moreover, learners with high and average prior knowledge showed a higher improvement in academic achievements compared to those with low prior knowledge. This result contradicts to the assumption of the cognitive theory of multimedia learning that learners with low prior knowledge would benefit from its principles more than learners with high prior knowledge.

Design of Multimedia Interactive Courseware Based on Flash

As an advanced computer-assisted instruction teaching methods, its flexibility, intuitive, real-time, three-dimensional advantages, more and more by the majority of teachers and students of all ages. To make good use of computer-assisted instruction in this modern teaching methods, the key is to design and manufacture to meet the teaching requirements of multimedia courseware. Multimedia courseware is used to assist teachers in teaching tools, creative people based on their creativity, starting with general information on the classification of the organization, then the text, images, animation, audio, video and other media clips in both time and space integration, so that they blend and give them the interactive features to produce a variety of colourful multimedia educational software.

The Design of Multimedia Interactive Courseware for Teaching Reading to Hearing Impaired Students

The purpose of the study was to design multimedia interactive courseware for hearing impaired student. The study focused on comprehensions and competency used of sign language with grade three and four hearing impaired student in Malaysia. The design for this multimedia interactive courseware considered for hearing impaired learners of reading and aimed to minimize cognitive load. The aim of the paper is to describe about designing the multimedia interactive courseware that is developed through user- centered approach.

The Effect of using Interactive Multimedia Courseware with Pedagogical Agent in Learning Nutrition towards Higher Order Thinking Skills

This study aims to design and develop a courseware named Nutri-Score with pedagogical agent for the topic of Nutrition in Biology form four. This quasi-experimental design study involved 181 students from two secondary schools in Kedah and Penang respectively. 90 respondents from the treatment group studied Nutrition through Nutri-Score while the other 91 respondents from the control group studied Nutrition cooperatively. Then the learning effect by using the two teaching strategies were tested on four dependent variables namely higher order thinking skills and their components which are classifying skill as well as comparing and contrasting skill. The four dependent variables were set according to the New Taxonomy from Marzano Model. The findings were analyzed inferentially by using the Multivariate Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA) Test. The pre-test result was used as the covariate. The quantitative analysis showed that the use of Nutri-Score has helped to improve the higher order thinking skills, classifying skill as well as the comparing and contrasting skill in pupils significantly. This study contributes to the method of designing and developing a teaching courseware to enhance higher order thinking skills among secondary school Biology students. The positive results produced contribute positive implications to the models and theories which were integrated in the design and development of the courseware.

Developing and Testing a Self-Learned Interactive Multimedia Courseware for Music Aural Lesson

As multimedia teaching and learning technologies become more extensively advocated and employed in higher education, researcher attempt to comprehend the suitability of such technologies on student self learning material. This paper presents a research study that was conducted to develop and test a self-learned interactive multimedia courseware of Music Aural lesson. This discussion focuses upon the appropriateness of selected content, instructional design and technical aspect that been incorporated into authoring software with interactivity option and admirable audio video support. A variety of media techniques including text, sound, pictures, video clips and animation were utilized to present the content of Music Aural lesson in an interactive and effective design. It also enclosed activities that students can embark on interactively to strengthen and test their self learning. The data was collected through a survey and feedback to bring forth students' perceptions and attitudes regarding the suitability of this learning aid. Results of the study showed that the developed Music Aural courseware was suitable as a self-learning material and provided strong support to the understanding of concepts in the Music Aural learning.

Application of Multi-lens Video Editing Technology in Multi-media Interactive Teaching of "Aerobics"

This study designed an interactive multi-media remote courseware teaching system based on the network application technology Flex and the multi-media server technology FMS. It can quickly extract and concatenate scattered images and videos in teaching courseware, and then generate complete and clear materials of teaching courseware. Meanwhile, by using the network server constructed on FMS, the system can realize remote interactive design and teaching application online. Noticeably, the system is featured by its diversified functions such as remote login, live teaching of courseware and interactive video-based teaching. After the system was applied in teaching of “aerobics” in a comparative experiment, it was also found that: the system’s interactive teaching function has a significant effect on enhancing students’ interest in multi-media teaching, strengthening their mastery of the teaching content and improving their achievements in practice assessments.

The Effectiveness of an Interactive Multimedia Courseware with Cooperative Mastery Approach in Enhancing Higher Order Thinking Skills in Learning Cellular Respiration

The main objective of this study is to integrate mastery and cooperative learning approaches together with an interactive multimedia to enhance students’ high order thinking skills in the learning of Cellular Respiration. A multimedia interactive courseware was developed and applied in three different strategies, namely the Multimedia-assisted Mastery Learning (MML), Multimedia-assisted Cooperative Learning (MCL) and Multimedia-assisted Cooperative Mastery Learning (MCML). The MML used a self-learning approach while MCL and MCML involve learning in groups. This study involved a quasi-experimental design whereby the domain scores of analysing, evaluating and synthesizing were the three dependent variables. The independent variable was the interactive multimedia courseware with the three approaches. Eighty-four, 88 and 90 pre-university students went through the MML, MCL, and MCML respectively. The MANCOVA was applied to analyse the performance scores of each of the three higher order thinking skills based on the three approaches with the implemented courseware. The result revealed that the MML and MCML students performed significantly better in the creating domain score compared to MCL. Overall, the findings of this study suggest that the multimedia interactive courseware with the combination of mastery and cooperative learning approaches brings a positive effect in the learning of Cellular Respiration.

Multimedia Tools for Teaching Basic Electronics

This paper presents the application of interactive multimedia courseware for teaching rectifiers in electrical engineering and electronics engineering courses. The aim of the study is to present a learning innovation using courseware on rectifier as an additional tool in teaching and studying EE 432 (Power Electronics) for Spring Semester of 2013-2014. The courseware was developed using Macromedia Authorware as the authoring language. Students gain hands-on experience, and also improve their skill in product development, selfdirected learning, teamwork, and project management. Practical projects increase the challenge for students and, hence, their interest level. Graphics and animations are used to give a more attractive and effective presentation. The courseware developed is also capable of producing graph simulation which agreed with the simulation using MATLAB program. Using this courseware the teaching and studying process will be more effective, attractive and interesting.

PC-Based Game Features That Influence Instruction and Learner Motivation

PC-based games are currently being used for military training, but the instructional and motivational features of such technology are not well understood. To identify features of training games that influence instruction and motivation, a popular first-person-perspective game with a military theme was analyzed empirically. Twenty-one participants played the “basic training” portion of the game, which included Army background information, virtual marksmanship training, an obstacle course, virtual weapons familiarization, and an urban terrain training mission. The results of this research provide useful information to individuals developing training games, desktop simulations, and interactive multimedia courseware to meet optimal training objectives and strategies.

Development of Interactive Multimedia Courseware (e-CRAFT) for Craft Education.

The way of teaching and learning traditional crafts have always used traditional apprenticeship learning methods where the expert facilitates transfer of practice skill sets to novices. As a craft has been taught in conventional approach, the students and experts have been facing several problems especially when expert needs to teach a group of students. An appropriate mapping of craft education and Information and Communication Technologies using Multimedia technology for instance, has the potential in transforming traditional craft learning into more flexible environment. This paper reports on a research project on development of an interactive multimedia courseware package for teaching and learning traditional craft called e-CRAFT. The e-CRAFT is specially designed for songket weaving course taught to certificate and diploma students from Fakulti Seni Kraf Tenunan in their first year study at Institut Kraf Negara, Malaysia (National Craft Institute). The courseware was developed in a web-based environment and overall development process was based on the Dick and Carey's process model and conceptual Instructional Design framework. It is made up of eight learning modules: Introduction, Materials & Tools, Knowing Motifs, Learn How to Weave, Quizzes & Test, Online Discussion, Glossary and Help module. In order to test whether the courseware is suitable in terms of usability, pilot testing was done to a sample of 10 students. The results from pilot test received positive feedback which signifies the courseware is considered acceptable for effectiveness study and help for further improve of the e-CRAFT courseware.

A Study on Learning Pre-Algebra Using Interactive Multimedia Courseware Within Collaborative Learning Set-Up and E-Mail Interactions

Abstract – Many students at diploma level are weak in mathematics even after spending eleven years in Malaysian education system. However, throughout the world there are research studies been done with mixed results using technology and collaborative learning. The objective of this paper is to analyze the effect of learning pre-algebra using interactive courseware with collaborative learning by using STAD set ups with interactive courseware using e-mail facilities during team discussion only. Quasi experimental type research was used. The gain score (differences between post and pre test) between the two equivalent groups were obtained. Diploma Information Technology first year students in two different intake years 2009 and 2010 in UTHM were employed. ‘t-test’ results revealed the second group using e-mail is statistically significantly inferior to the group using purely interactive multimedia courseware CDiCL only with STAD team discussion. On average participants experienced higher gain scores in the first group (Mean = 3.28, SE=0.433), than participants in the second group (M=0.77, SE=0.354). This difference was statistically significant (t (74) = 4.51, p

The Influence of Teamwork Using a Multimedia Interactive Courseware in Learning Pre-Algebra

A strong grasp of mathematics is a key factor in ensuring success in engineering education. This paper reports on a study that attempts to investigate the contribution of teamwork and interactive multimedia courseware (CDiCL) towards learning of pre-algebra among engineering students. The quasi-experimental design method with pre and post test were used which involved four intact groups of students namely, the Control group, Collaborative Learning (CL) only group, Courseware (CD) only group and CDiCL group. Interviews and participant observations were also used for gathering qualitative data. Results of the quantitative data analysis showed that two groups that used the CD outperformed the two other groups who did not. The qualitative data analysis results revealed that teamwork among the CD users were more effective when team size is small (3 to 4).

The Effect of Using an Interactive Multimedia Courseware within a Collaborative Learning Environment on the Learning of Pre-Algebra Concepts among Pre-University Engineering Students

Students enrolled into an engineering programme are expected to have good grasps of mathematical concepts and procedures as mastery of mathematics is essential to succeed in engineering based programmes. However, many new engineering students do not possess adequate mathematical skills and as a consequence, engineering teachers often have to spend time on remedial work in the first two semesters of the programme which is counter productive for all. Even with remediation, the outcome is not always satisfactory. To enhance the effectiveness of our teaching and learning efforts we tested the use of a blended teaching and learning method (CDiCL) where a specifically designed courseware based on the Herman Brain Dominance theory was used within a collaborative learning environment. The courseware provides opportunities for individually paced drill and practice while the collaborative learning environment provided opportunities for social learning support from peers. We compared the CDiCl method to three other methods, namely using the courseware only (CD), using collaborative method only (CL) and using the conventional method. We found out that the CDiCL group performs similarly to the CD group but was superior to the CL group. Affective factors like attitude and motivation played major roles towards this outcome.

A design-first curriculum and Eclipse™ tools

This tutorial introduces a curriculum and tools supporting a design-first pedagogy for teaching object-oriented programming in a CS1 course (Moritz and Blank 2005, Moritz et al. 2005). Design-first emphasizes the big picture of software development---how to understand and solve a customer's problem, rather than just coding. The design-first approach subsumes objects-first---instead of a Hello, World program, in the first lesson students learn how to use classes, constructors and methods to create scenes out of graphical objects. They also quickly learn how to develop use cases to analyze a customer's problem, and then how to design class diagrams in Unified Modeling Language (UML). Interactive multimedia courseware helps introduce these concepts (Blank et al. 2003). Students learn how to manipulate objects using the open-source Eclipse IDE with the DrJava interactive interpreter plug-in. They design class diagrams in the LehighUML plug-in, which automatically generates skeletons of Java source code. The LehighUML plug-in also sends each step of student work to a server, where an intelligent tutoring system analyzes their work and provides hints and lessons (Blank et al. 2005 and Wei et al. 2005).