A heuristic evaluation to support the instructional and enjoyment aspects of a math game

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2017-01-01

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YENİ, Sabiha
Çağıltay, Kürşat

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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to provide information about the design principles of educational games in the context of an educational math game example to educational game developers and instructors. Especially, it tries to demonstrate the importance of the academic content-fantasy integration and entertainment factors of educational games from the viewpoint of the experts. For this purpose, as a sample, an educational math game was examined to see how successful is the academic aspect, fantasy aspect, academic-fantasy aspects integration and enjoyment aspect of the game. Good aspects of the game and aspects need improvement were summarized for guidance to game developers while producing educational games.

Subject Keywords

Educational game, Academic-fantasy context, Expert review, GameFlow, Heuristic evaluation, RETAIN model

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/39075

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PROGRAM-ELECTRONIC LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS

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https://doi.org/10.1108/prog-07-2016-0050

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Department of Computer Education and Instructional Technology, Article

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S. YENİ and K. Çağıltay, “A heuristic evaluation to support the instructional and enjoyment aspects of a math game,” PROGRAM-ELECTRONIC LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS, pp. 406–423, 2017, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/39075.