Edutainment Applications for the Creative Age: Interplay of Design, Technological and Educational Methodology

This article discusses the interplay of the three aspects of edutainment applications for the creative age, namely design, technological, and educational methodologies. This article begins with an overview of edutainment, follows by a discussion on the contribution of edutainment in our understanding of adult learning and education, and the relationship between theory and practice, and finally a conclusion on how educational psychology with an emphasis on adult learning and design methodology in human computer interaction determines the success of edutainment. This article attempts to propose that edutainment (education through entertainment) could be one of the solutions for adult education in the creative age.