Developing Healthy Eating Multimedia Courseware for Kindergarten Students: Heuristic and Usability Evaluation

Abstract

This paper discusses the results of heuristic and usability evaluations of an educational multimedia courseware that contains instructional material in educating kindergarten students about healthy eating. The courseware has been developed to add more digital materials in teaching healthy eating among the kindergarten students. The development of this courseware has applied Gagne’s 9 instructional events, due to its effectiveness and popularity in the instructional design area. In order to carry out the evaluation, heuristic evaluation by courseware experts and usability evaluation by users have been conducted. The evaluation activities exposed some unsuitable courseware elements in the courseware and were used to make improvement. The usability evaluation was carried out to evaluate the effectiveness and usability of the courseware with a group of 30 samples of target respondents. They were students in Tadika Little Khaliph Gong Badak in Kuala Nerus, Terengganu. The respondents were given 30 minutes to try out the courseware and declare their thoughts on the elements of the courseware. The result revealed that the respondents were satisfied with the design and content, and the assessment elements. However, they gave an inadequate response on the retention element in the courseware.