Student motivation learning history using virtual reality – based adventure storytelling / Azimaslia Asin

There are 76.47 percent of students felt bored studies history subject during class. Therefore, a solution had been achieved by developing virtual reality courseware of History subject that based on adventure storytelling to motivate the students learning History subject. This project is developing a courseware for History subject known as “How it is in the Past” to motivate student studies History subject. This courseware contained a subtopic in chapter 6 of Form 3 book text. To motivate students study History subject without being bored, ARCS Model is being used in this project. The syllabus in the courseware are made based on ARCS Model to gain attention, relevance, confidence and satisfaction studying the subject. To make the subject more interesting, the combination of virtual reality and storytelling are made for the students’ motivation to rose-up. The virtual environment is created using Unity and the platforms used to implement this project is a desktop-based application. The “Mountain” is the type of storytelling used to deliver a satisfying conclusion where it slowly shows on how to overcome the challenge and building a tension in the story. To evaluate this project, questionnaire that based on ARCS Model are given to the students after they used the courseware. The results of the motivation level of students is about 92 percent based on the questionnaire given to the students and teachers. Therefore, the objectives in this project are met because the problem is being solved by the solution provided.