Multimedia Courseware of Road Safety Education for Secondary School Students

Cases of accidents involving children keep increasing from time to time. According to the statistic from Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (MIROS) has showed that the road accidents which involved the children reveal a significantly high degree of fatalities and injuries. In order to decrease the risk of accident involving children, an initiative to develop a courseware application about road safety have been taken as a precaution step to help children protect their safety on road. This paper will discuss about the multimedia implementation in developing learning courseware to introduce basic road safety knowledge for students within the age 12 to 17 years old. For implementation process, the Rapid Application Development (RAD) approach has been selected as the methodology to develop the courseware. Basically the methodology divided into four phases which are requirement planning. user design, rapid construction. and transition. After development process, a survey was conducted in SMK Mergong which located at Alor Setar in order to get feedback from the student in term of the impacts while using the courseware. From the survey. it showed that the courseware application really help the students to get clear understanding about road safety. The use of picture, audio and video in the courseware also become interactive and particularly suitable for level of student's understanding.