Ta’lamArab: Augmented reality for arabic learning / Nur Aina Syahfina Kairol Nizam

• Main Author: Kairol Nizam, Nur Aina Syahfina
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Application software; Communication of technical information
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/104155/1/104155.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/104155/

Islamic studies as a discipline were a favourite course taken in Malaysia by many Muslims, at least in greater educational establishments. Arabic has been made compulsory for all learners taking the classes in all the classes provided. Most of students said that the use text book in Arabic learning makes them easily frustrated and bored. As a result, they could not pay attention fully on their studies. Therefore, this project focused on Augmented Reality mobile application for Android platform. Using augmented reality in the classroom can turn the students into an engaging learning experience. AR technology provides virtual examples to support textbook materials. The methodology used to develop Ta’lamArab application is Mobile Application Development Lifecycle (MADLC) with C# language is used to make sure that the development of the application run efficiently. In this project, there are only five phases are implemented which are identification, design, development, prototyping, and testing. Marker based augmented reality is a technique used to overcome the problem. When a smartphone with a display screen and a camera is pointed at a page in the book for which 3D image has been created, an app installed on the smartphone reads the page and displays that 3D images on the screen of the device. This 3D images could be something like a simple set of moving images or an animation in real world. Using AR in education for example animated images may help the children more understand and remember the content easier. Besides that, the student may learn and enjoy the learning process in the classroom. For future recommendation, the application also available for iOS platform as it can be used either android or iOS. Besides, more alphabets will be applied in the application with more animated 3D model images which make more interactive learning.