What is Educational Games

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Educational games are those intentionally designed for the purpose of education, or those entertainment games that have incidental or educational values. Educational games are designed to help people understand concepts, learn domain knowledge, and develop problem solving skills as they play games. Learn more in: Designing Engaging Educational Games and Assessing Engagement in Game-Based Learning

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Are games specifically designed to teach a certain subject, expand concepts, reinforce development, understand an historical event or culture, or learn a skill. Learn more in: Technology Enhanced Learning and Education

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Refers to games designed with educational purposes in mind. Learn more in: Science Learning Games for Mobile Platforms

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Games produced to be used within learning environments. Learn more in: Students as Gamers: Design, Code, and Play

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Games explicitly designed with educational purposes. Learn more in: Using Game Development to Teach Programming

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An instructional approach that presents educational content in a game format. Learn more in: Motivating By Design: Using Digital-Game Based Learning Techniques to Create an Interesting Problem-Based Learning Environment

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Games designed with explicit educational goals that are intended to support processes of teaching and learning. Learn more in: Perceptions of Gender Stereotypes About Computer Game-Based Learning Among Pre-Service Teachers: Development and Initial Psychometric Analysis of a Scale

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These are games that have formal objectives, designed to help people learn about particular subjects, expand concepts, reinforce development, or help them learn a skill while playing. Learn more in: Educators as Facilitators of Game-Based Learning: Their Knowledge, Attitudes, and Skills

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Computer-based electronic games with high educational value. They usually adhere to the constructivist theory of learning. Learn more in: Motivational Matrix for Educational Games

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An educational game is a game designed to teach humans about a specific subject and to teach them a skill. Learn more in: Impact of Kinect Exergame on Mental Computation Speed and Achievement

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Are games designed to aid in learning about specific subjects, in expanding concepts, in stimulating growth, in understanding a historical event or a culture, in developing a skill while playing; educational games can be applied in any educational environment using any gaming approach. Learn more in: Playful Education and Innovative Gamified Learning Approaches

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Computer games that involve learning of certain knowledge. Learn more in: Computer Games for Algorithm Learning

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Educational games are a type of computer game with purported educational value. Educational games include such titles as Oregon Trail, Reader Rabbit, and Sim Earth. Unfortunately, a majority of educational games seem to lack the type of addictive engagement quality of recreational games. Though they represent a niche market, they generally do not sell well and thus, interest in creating them is minimal. Learn more in: Computer Games as a New Arena for IST Research