Challenges in the evaluation of educational computer games

Author

Omar, Hasiah Mohamed ; Jaafar, Azizah

Author_Institution

Fac. of Comput. & Math. Sci., Univ. Teknol. MARA (UiTM), Dungun, Malaysia

Volume

1

fYear

2010

fDate

15-17 June 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Computer games have been used for educational purposes nowadays. The implementations of educational computer games bring some challenges and issues that need to be highlighted. There are three challenges in evaluating educational computer games which are the evaluation criteria, the evaluators and the evaluation process. Evaluation criteria have been identified and it consists of five issues which are Interface, Educational, Content, Playability and Multimedia. The evaluators are real and surrogate users. The third challenge is regarding evaluation process and one of the suitable processes is by implementing formative evaluation in order to develop a comprehensive and practical educational computer games.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; computer games; content issues; educational computer games; educational issues; evaluation criteria; evaluation process; interface issues; multimedia issues; playability issues; Computers; Education; Electrocardiography; Games; Human computer interaction; Multimedia communication; Usability; challenge; educational computer games; evaluation crtiteria; issues;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology (ITSim), 2010 International Symposium in

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

ISSN

2155-897

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6715-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITSIM.2010.5561336

Filename

5561336