ONLINE DOA’ FROM AL-QURAN AND HADITH FOR MUSLIM KIDS

This paper is prepared to provide an overview on a new approach for Islamic Education Webbased

especially for doa’ for young Muslim children range about 5-7 years old. The main
objective of this project is to develop a website to educate young Muslim children on the practice
of daily doa’. Additionally, a survey has been carried out among 50 respondents and the majority
of them are parents and teacher. The aim is to get their opinions in order to identify whether the
web-based learning is feasible to be implemented and reliable to be used for the children. Based
on the conducted survey, about 54% of respondents that are basically parents and teachers
disagreed that teaching about Islam in school are efficient and effective way to be utilized.
Therefore, it is believed there should be an alternative method can be used in order to increase
their complete understanding about Islam. Hence, about 78% of the respondents agreed that
learning about Islam via online is a practical way to be implemented in local market. The
usability and interactivity features are the core elements that are going to be focused on. One of
the key of interactivity features that is going to be focused is visual narrative. This is because
nowadays, people tend to have interest on something that is related to graphic. In the other
words, the power of image and narrative enables to allow a great deal of variety in methodology
and presentation. However, there is still no existing websites that are offering doa’ as part of
teaching module in interactive way based on researches made recently. Therefore, an interview
with the experts from Islamic and Multimedia fields are also have been conducted with the
intention of getting the needs and requirements before designing the interface so that it could
meet the users’ expectations after development process. It can be concluded that it is a great
opportunity to develop an Islamic Education Web-based that is focusing on doa’ as to promote
the whole Islamic of Life for Muslim children.