Development of Game-Based Courseware in Learning Pendidikan Sivik : M-Master

Pendidikan Sivik learns about Malaysia. The subject is compulsory taken for the primaru
school students whom are in Standard 4, Standard 4 and Standard 6. The rapid development
of the technology which are formally known as Information and Communication Technology
(ICT) has changed the methodology of teaching and learning. Current trends of gaming will
help to attract students in a way of transferring knowledge from the educator to students. In
Pendidikan Sivik, there are a lot of facts to be memorized and as the consequence, there are
trend of declining on interest in learning Pendidikan Sivik nowadays and there are an
increasing numbers of student produce with exam-oriented. The purpose of the research is to
research on a suitable type of games for learning geography, develop an interactive game to
be used as teaching materials in Pendidikan Sivik subject and assess the usability of the
courseware. The courseware will be developed using Adobe Flash CS4 and Adobe Photoshop
CS4. This ongoing research also will explore the area of which games benefiting the player
who can be the students or others in acquisition of skill, knowledge and in medium as a
practical platform for them to learn knowledge. Through the result and discussion, this
courseware receives positive feedback from the students. This courseware provide the student
with fun learning style and it is capable to help them to bring back the enjoyment and
excitement in education system rather than have a lecture for a long time.