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Multimedia and Serious Games in Education

Authors:
Carlos Oliveira

Keywords: game; history and geography learning; online game; development tools

Abstract:
According to recently studies, people spend many hours a day using entertainment applications on the Internet. It poses a great opportunity for serious games that can be used on education. This is a recent research area that needs to be addressed. This paper presents an educational game and the tools that are being used to developed this game. The idea is to move away from the traditional textbook approach and make learning pleasurable. In a near future, this game will be evaluated by history and geography teachers and students.

Pages: 50 to 53

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: April 19, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4448

ISBN: 978-1-61208-400-8

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from April 19, 2015 to April 24, 2015