Interactive Courseware to Help Retention of Periodic Table Elements in Chemistry Education

• Main Author: Pasarudin, Najmi
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS 2011
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/10520/1/2011%20-%20Interactive%20Courseware%20to%20Help%20Retention%20of%20Periodic%20Table%20Elements%20in%20Chemistry%20Education.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/10520/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas

The trend of combining multimedia and education elements into courseware has high acceptance among people with the growth of multimedia technology. Computerbased training has been used a lot nowadays and courseware with multimedia elements is among them. Interactive courseware in periodic table can enable students to understand more about the content while tracking it on the table. It can provide tutorial for beginners and reference for others. The objective of such courseware is help students in retention of the elements of the periodic table. Difficulties arise when students beginning to learn how to read the table and later remembering the elements. The throw away methodology will be used in developing the courseware. Such methodology is to discover the suitable design to achieve the courseware objective.