Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology (ITSim), 2010 International Symposium in
Conference_Location :
Kuala Lumpur
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6715-0
DOI :
10.1109/ITSIM.2010.5561336
