CONTENT DEVELOPMENT: COURSEWARE FOR STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES

There is a growing concern on disabled educations and government agencies are
accelerating their effort to support and help this group of people. Creating new
education environment with technological advancement can be beneficial for
disabled students as it provide better understanding in learning process. This report
presents the idea of improving the content development of a learning courseware
called "Fun Mathematics". The courseware was developed by previous Final Year
student, Ms. Luxmi Jesudian for students with learning disabilities and Mathematics
teachers at SK Pengkalan Pegoh, Ipoh as they are the target users for this
courseware. The students' intelligence level in Mathematics is same level with
Standard One students. The enhancement will focus on courseware's content
development which basically divided in two elements; varies the mode ofdelivery
and also improving the content ofthe syllabus. The mode of delivery varies into
games, learning and exercises features. The content ofthe syllabus will followed the
school's syllabus so that the students will have more understanding on the subject,.
The methodology used throughout this project is divided into several phases which
include planning, analysis, design, construction, implementation and maintenance.
Under construction phase, Prototype Model methodology will be implemented in
order to enhance the courseware. Result shows that the teachers gave positive
feedback on the improved courseware from the post testing questionnaires during
usertesting conducted in the school. It is hoped thatthenew version courseware will
help the students to learn Mathematics subject better.