Toby the explorer—An interactive educational game for primary school pupils
Date Issued
2016-05-30
Author(s)
Risteska Stojkoska, Biljana
Kaevikj, Nenad
Kostadinovska, Angela
Abstract
Technology enhanced education has been recently
established as a new approach for all stages of education in
developing countries, especially in Macedonia. Although
computer games are often given little attention we believe that
within the vast amount of technologies and instruments used to
achieve the needed improvements it is computer games that are
playing the central role in delivering the desired effects, in
particular to children and teenagers. In this paper we present the
“Toby the Explorer”, an interactive educational game for
primary school students. We show in depth the engineering
behind the game, its design and structure. We also give an insight
and evaluation of the importance of the game in enhancing the
educational process. Our results show that the learning process is
regarded as more easy and fun by the students that learned by
playing, but also it increased their interest in learning other
subjects not included explicitly in the game.
established as a new approach for all stages of education in
developing countries, especially in Macedonia. Although
computer games are often given little attention we believe that
within the vast amount of technologies and instruments used to
achieve the needed improvements it is computer games that are
playing the central role in delivering the desired effects, in
particular to children and teenagers. In this paper we present the
“Toby the Explorer”, an interactive educational game for
primary school students. We show in depth the engineering
behind the game, its design and structure. We also give an insight
and evaluation of the importance of the game in enhancing the
educational process. Our results show that the learning process is
regarded as more easy and fun by the students that learned by
playing, but also it increased their interest in learning other
subjects not included explicitly in the game.
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