Week 4 : Types of Courseware

There are 5 common types of Courseware

•         Drill and Practice

•         Tutorials

•         Simulations

•         Instructional games

•         Problem solving

Drill & Practice

1.    It provide the raining on specific skills:

·      immediate feedback or respond

·      provide suitable quantity of quality training for the learner

·      provide individualized feedback

·      able to motivate students with competition and multimedia

2.   The disadvantage is when too much emphasis on drill & practice will sacrifice the development of problem solving abilities

Simulations

1. Physical simulations: simulations of physical phenomena like the phenomena of the momentum.

2. procedure simulations: by controlling simulated devices, students able to learn by  controlling the devices.

3          3. situational simulations: role-playing in a situation, learner able to play the role and learn  
                 through the experience and the decision that they make.

4. process simulations: learner may change the out put or result by change the setting.

Instructional Games

      1. Game is one of the factor that able to motivate the student to learn .

2. Most of the game will require the player to scare the higher score.

3. The aspect of the good instructional game are

·         it is challenging

·         rise the curiosity of the player

·         full of imagination

Problem Solving Software

1.  A problem situation is provided and students are require to solve it.

2. Students learn the problem solving strategy and apply the knowledge that they

    have learned