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Courseware Development in Education: A Literature Review

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This literature review explores the transformative role of courseware development in contemporary education, examining its integration of informative content and formative practice questions. Emphasizing the significance of interactive multimedia and game-based approaches, the study delves into trends catering to diverse learning styles and showcasing the adaptability of courseware across disciplines, including power electronics, special education, preschool education, mathematics, and physical education. Utilizing a qualitative descriptive method with literature study techniques, the research critically examines the current state of courseware development, addressing key questions on pedagogical foundations, adaptive learning technologies, and challenges faced by educators. This provides insights into the challenges, opportunities, and implications of courseware development, serving as a valuable resource for educators, policymakers, and researchers navigating the dynamic landscape of education in the digital age.

Development of Interactive Multimedia Assisted by Virtual Laboratory for Critical and Creative Thinking Skills in Respiration and Excretion System Materials for Class XI High School Students

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The 21st century learning summarizes students’ thinking skills in four competencies, namely critical thinking skills, creative thinking, collaboration, and good communication. Teaching materials in schools should be able to help students in practicing thinking skills. This study aims to produce interactive multimedia assisted by a virtual laboratory for respiratory and excretory system materials in humans that can improve the critical and creative thinking skills of class XI students that are valid, practical, and effective.

This type of research is development research with the Plomp modeldevelopment research which consists of three phases, namely the initial preliminary research phase, the development or prototyping phase, and the assessment phase. The research subjects are students of class XI SMAN 1 Sitiung Academic Year 2021-2022. The instrument in this study is a questionnaire of validity and practicality as well as a matter of effectiveness. The data analysis technique was validity, practicality using a Likert scale scoring and effectiveness using ANOVA using SPSS 21.

The results showed interactive multimedia assisted by a virtual laboratory obtained very valid criteria according to expert review with a value of 81.26%. The practicality of the teacher is very practical with a value of 96.66% and the student response criteria are very practical with a value of 95.71%. The effectiveness test of interactive multimedia assisted by a virtual laboratory is effective because the experimental class shows an increase in critical thinking skills. Based on these results, it can be concluded that the interactive multimedia assisted by a virtual laboratory on the respiratory and excretory system materials developed in humans is valid, practical and effective.