Making sweet music : The Educational Use of Computer Games
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The area of educational computer games is not yet well defined but there are recent attempts at rehabilitating the field. However, sidestepping classic edutainment is not an easy task. Edutainment have since the 1970s used a classic formula for producing educational computer games based on learning theories with problematic assumptions given our current knowledge of how humans learn. This article outlines the characteristics of edutainment, traces its historical development, and introduces some of the most important research into the area so far.
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