Learning history through mobile historical event storytelling: M-Seerah

Mobile application has existed due to the advancement in mobile technology. It takes place in knowledge dissemination and learning by utilizing the portability and anywhere anytime access of mobile phone. The substance of mobile storytelling reaches from folktale, personal information, public history and historical event. However, from the studies conducted, a methodology for developing framework for historical event storytelling on mobile platform was barely found. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the methodology conducted in order to develop the proposed framework. The framework has been verified thru an implementation of M-Seerah on mobile phone. Result from the Heuristic Evaluation Approach of M-Seerah to the usability experts has given positive feedback. Therefore, the contribution of this framework through content segmentation and bee comb architecture design hopefully can increase the user´s interest towards learning and knowledge dissemination in general, specifically in Seerah (Islamic History).