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

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.