with the advent of the technology, teachers acquire several new and exciting ways of interactive learning to
present information to the students. The interactive learning allows the integration of animation, text, and moving
pictures into lessons, which amplify the abilities to present materials that encourage students’ interaction with the
subject matter. Pictures and animations visualize a dynamic phenomenon or processes that cannot be readily seen
by the human eye and the multimedia allow students to be more active in learning. They can watch
microorganisms up close, navigate pages through buttons and repeat the steps of the particular process.
The objectives of the project are to design and develop an interactive learning application to assist students for
Microbiology subject and to test the usability of the system for learnability, memorability, simplicity, satisfaction
and overall reaction to the application.
The focus of this project is to develop interactive learning application in Microbiology course. The scope of
the project will cover one topic from Microbiology (BIO461) course which is Microbiology and Recombinant
DNA. The target audience of this project is mainly the students from AS201, Bachelor in Science (Hons) Biology
program in Faculty of Applied Sciences at University Teknologi Mara, Shah Alam.