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Journal of Information Systems Research and Innovation10(3), 20-26, December 2016Designing A Pre-school Courseware To Learn Basic Al-Quran Using ‘Jom Ngaji’MethodHasnatul Balqies Hashim1. Aryati Bakri2*. Nor Hawaniah Zakaria31KolejPoly Tech MARA, Kampus Kuantan, Jalan Gambang, 25150 Kuatan, Pahang.Komputeran, UTM, 81310, Skudai, Johor Bahru, Johor2,3FakultiPublished online: December 2016 2016 JISRI All rights reservedAbstract Most Muslims recite Al-Quran in their dailylives. Therefore, basic Al-Quran needs to be introducedto children at an early age. The purpose of this paper isto identifying the component of courseware for childrento learn basic Al-Quran and designing the courseware.The target group of this study is children aged four to sixyears, and learning is done through Book 1 of the JomNgaji series. The name of the courseware is MyNGaji.The design methodology used in study applied thePersuasive System Design (PSD) steps in order toresearch and to check the activities are going in the rightdirection.Keywords:Multimedia, Courseware, Al-Quran,Persuasive, Basic Al-Quran, Persuasive system design1. INTRODUCTIONA courseware is defined as an educational materialproposed as teaching aids and kits for teachers, usuallypackaged for use alongside a computer, with theobjective to enhance learning and teaching processamong students (AiniArifah & Norizan, 2008).According to Hossain & Rahman (2006), coursewarerefers to content specific instructional software, whichfunctions to generate instruction with the support ofinstructional delivery system. Multimedia coursewareevolves within the same definition of the courseware inan environment encompassing the interactions andtransformations of the semantics through multimedia. Ina multimedia courseware product there are five basicelements, namely the content and learning or pedagogicalmethods as the main components, the learning objectivesand the medium as its attributes, the media componentand the architecture (Hossain & Rahman 2006). Aziz,Mutalib & Sarif(2014) have highlighted eight necessarycomponents of a courseware namely, the structuralcomponent, content composition, design guidelines,learning theories, learning approach, developmentprocess, Instructional Design (ID) model andtechnology. Both of these studies only focus on general.ISSN 2289-1358 2016 JISRI All rights reservedHowever, they do not focused on basic Al-Qurancourseware for pre-school children.In previous studies, there are several basic Al-Qurancourseware’s developed such as Bahasa Arab InteraktifKurikulum (BAIK) courseware (Faryadi 2009), ArabicLanguage Learning (ALL) courseware (Salim et al., 2009),i-IQRA’ courseware (Rosmani & Wahab, 2011), EZArabic courseware (Sahrir et al., 2013), Al-Furqancourseware (Hammza et al., 2013; Bakri et al., 2014a) andIQRA courseware (Bakri et al., 2014b). All of thesecoursewares have applied various techniques or modelsto help people learn to read Al-Quran effectively. Thus,the suitable courseware components will affect the finaloutcome of the courseware.There are many methods available from past untiltoday that have been compiled to assist Al-Quranlearning, such as Baghdadiyah, Qiraati, Hattawaiyah andIqra’ (Sharudin 2006). Traditionally, for the IslamicKindergarten in Malaysia, children at the age of five yearsold only read Al-Quran alphabets using Iqra’ method.However, there are many Muslims children who are stillunable to read the Al-Quran successfully. The efforts todiversify the methods of education must continue toproduce literate generation of Al-Quran, with manymethods focussing on phonetics. In respond to thisproblem, this research is focusing on designing anddeveloping a courseware for young children in order toimprove the learning and reciting Al-Quran. Goldbergand Lederberg (2015), emphasized that the learning ofthe alphabet is considered to be a foundational inreading. The research applied Jom Ngaji method thatintroduced basic Al-Quran in a step by step basic startingfrom recognizing a single letter until the letters ofHijaiyah marching (Kamarudin 2015).Persuasive system design implemented in thisresearch aims to support Jom Ngaji as a basic Al-Quranlearning environment. A persuasive system design is aninteractive technology that attempts to changebehaviours or attitudes in some direction. Therefore, aPage 20 Journal of Information Systems Research andInnovation10(3), 20-26, December 2016

Journal of Information Systems Research and Innovation10(3), 20-26, December 2016computer qualifies as a persuasive technology only whenthe individuals who make, disperse or embrace thetechnology do so with an aim to influence humanbehaviours and attitudes (Fogg 1998). Thus, this researchuses an interactive learning model using persuasivesystem design to support Jom Ngaji method as a device toinfluence children to learn Al-Quran characters and lastlythey can read and recite the Al-Quran successful. Thetarget audience for this project is children four to sixyears old, currently registered with a kindergarten at PulaiJaya, Johor.Flashcards is recognized as a tool to improvinglearning (Diouri, 2009). Recent studies on basic AlQuran coursewares including Al-Furqan courseware(Bakri, Zakaria, et al., 2014a) and IQRA courseware(Bakri et al., 2014b) have applied electronics flashcardcomponent to teach children effectively. Thus, in thisresearch, the use of electronics flashcard is embedded inthe courseware developed to help children to in the AlQuran learning. To the best of researcher knowledge,there are no studies that focus on coursewarecomponent with electronics flashcard using Jom Ngajimethod for children aged between four to six years old.2. DESIGN METHODOLOGYThe main objective of this paper was to design acourseware, the MyNGaji. The phases involved aredetermining the courseware components, and designingthe model phase.2.1 Courseware ComponentA comprehensive literature review was conducted tohelp determining the components for the courseware,Table 1.Table 1 : Related Learning CoursewareCoursewarei-IQRA’(Rosmani& Wahab,2011)MyFurqan(Bakri etal., 2014a)IQRA(Bakri etal., 2014b)V-Hajj(Yusoff etal., 2011)SmokerShooter(Ismail etal., 2012)PersuasiveMultimedia LearningTheoryFlashcardimplemented multimedia elements in their courseware,with the exception of smoker shooter courseware. Twocourseware have implemented learning theory and twocourseware have implemented flashcards. Thus, it isinferred that the persuasive principles is suitable to applyin learning courseware for children to persuade them tolearn basic Al-Quran effectively. Other than that,multimedia elements and learning theory are alsoimportant to motivate children to learning have somefun while. Flashcards is the most suitable for children tolearn quickly. But, all of these coursewares do notimplement the edugames application in their learningcourseware models. Hence, this study would be thesignificant interest as it includes edugames to enhancetheir learning process.The courseware components design as shown inFigure 1. The entire component will be integrated in theinitial courseware components to persuade youngchildren to learn basic Al-Quran successful.MultimediaElementsDualcodingTheory'Jom Ngaji 'CoursewareFlashcardsPersuasivePrinciplesFigure 1: Courseware componentsEach element of courseware components isexplained in detail as follows; All courseware’s, namely, i-IQRA’ courseware, AlFurqan courseware, IQRA courseware, V-Hajjcourseware and Smoker Shooter courseware haveimplemented persuasive principles in their learningcourseware. While, only four courseware hasISSN 2289-1358 2016 JISRI All rights reserved2.1.1 Persuasive PrinciplesFogg (2003b) has identified seven types of persuasiveprinciples. In MyNGaji courseware components for eflashcards, only four principles are adopted, includingreduction, tunneling, tailoring and suggestion. Table 2summarizes the persuasive principles used in thecourseware development for e-flashcards.The courseware features enable the persuasiveprinciples to be utilized in the courseware development.With the use of suitable principles, it is believed that withprolonged usage of courseware the behaviour of targetgroup can be achieved, as intended. The persuasiveprinciples used in the courseware development for eflashcards are reduction, tunneling, tailoring andsuggestion.Page 21 Journal of Information Systems Research andInnovation10(3), 20-26, December 2016