Design of interactive multimedia courseware in data structures & algorithms

• Main Author: Mustaffa, Shazwanil.
• Other Authors: Low Chor Ping
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::General::Education
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/54435
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The Internet provides a good platform for hosting and maintaining learning materials and educational programs. Interactivity and multimedia usage are some advantages of this new way of learning – interactivity allows for users to absorb information more readily with multimedia usage such as visual stimulation and animation enhances learning. [24] Developing a multimedia courseware is demanding, as it requires proper planning of the content being presented while taking into account the needs of proposed users. [20] The courseware should enable users to acquire new knowledge regarding the topics and apply what they have learnt. This final year projects aims to design an interactive multimedia courseware, which covers the subject – Data Structures and Algorithms. Data Structures and Algorithms contain challenging concepts that students may find difficult to comprehend. Interactive multimedia is to be used in the development of the courseware as to increase understanding of the concepts through animation and visual stimulations of the operations of an algorithm. Designing the courseware to be web-based is advantageous as a web-based courseware allows an interactive learning environment where learning can be done anywhere and anytime. The courseware aims to be learning supplementary aid to understand Data Structures and Algorithms concepts. This report describes the design development of the courseware and how interactivity is integrated in a web-based courseware.