Measuring student acceptance of game based learning for game and technology education curriculum development

Technological education is the modernized practice of learning through the use of technologies. Edutainment is a kind of education which integrates entertainment for educational purposes and uses video games for education. It is a hybrid learning system that depends basically on narrative, visual materials or game-like formats, with less didactic address styles and on a more informal way. Game based learning or edutainment, just like other technology-based education methods, is being used in western or developed countries. Saudi Arabia is considered a developing country just like other Arab countries; hence, computer education has recently appeared in Saudi Arabian education. Therefore, studying this new development in the Saudi educational systems will effect significantly on the speed of developing the educational systems in Saudi Arabia. However, no edutainment games have been designed for this new curriculum. Therefore this research ultimately aims to design a new edutainment game to be used for the computer technology curriculum. To design an efficient edutainment game system, edutainment game effectiveness and the attitudes of students will be measured to know their technology acceptance level for the new edutainment tool and curriculum. The study is carried out using Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), based on four factors; usability, usefulness, ease of use and effectiveness.

[1]  Dana Mohammed Fallata.  The role of edutainment in teaching reading and vocabulary to english language learners , 2013 .

[2]  M. Volman,et al.  Gender Equity and Information Technology in Education: The Second Decade , 2001 .

[3]  Zühal Okan,et al.  Edutainment: is learning at risk? , 2003, Br. J. Educ. Technol..

[4]  Hanafizan Hussain,et al.  Theoretical framework for edutainment: the cognitive engineering , 2006 .

[5]  Matthew K. Burns,et al.  Updated Meta-Analysis of Learner Control Within Educational Technology , 2014 .

[6]  Maria Virvou,et al.  On the usability and likeability of virtual reality games for education: The case of VR-ENGAGE , 2008, Comput. Educ..

[7]  Josef Trna,et al.  Edutainment or Entertainment. Education Possibilities ofDidactic Games in Science Education , 2007 .

[8]  Franca Garzotto,et al.  FaTe2: storytelling edutainment experiences in 2D and 3D collaborative spaces , 2006, IDC '06.

[9]  Iraklis Varlamis,et al.  Utilising an Educational Framework for the Development of Edutainment Scenarios , 2011 .

[10]  Mohammad Chuttur,et al.  Overview of the Technology Acceptance Model: Origins, Developments and Future Directions , 2009 .

[11]  Hanafizan Hussain,et al.  Conceptualized framework for edutainment , 2003 .

[12]  Charlotte Wiberg,et al.  Satisfaction and learnability in edutainment : A usability study of the knowledge game ‘Laser Challenge’at the Nobel e-museum , 2003, HCI International 2003.

[13]  Giorgos Lepouras,et al.  Virtual museums for all: employing game technology for edutainment , 2004, Virtual Reality.

[14]  Anne Soronen,et al.  Edutainment From Television and Computers to Digital Television , 2004 .

[15]  Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen,et al.  Beyond Edutainment: Exploring the Educational Potential of Computer Games , 2011 .

[16]  Jan G. Hogle.  Considering Games as Cognitive Tools: In Search of Effective "Edutainment" , 1996 .

[17]  B. F. Van der Meulen,et al.  Is edutainment software really educational? A feature analysis of Dutch edutainment software for young children , 2011 .

[18]  Michela Addis,et al.  New Technologies and Cultural Consumption. Edutainment is Born , 2005 .

[19]  Iván Martínez-Ortiz,et al.  Integration and Deployment of Educational Games in e-Learning Environments: The Learning Object Model Meets Educational Gaming , 2009, J. Educ. Technol. Soc..

[20]  Michail N. Giannakos,et al.  "This Game Is Girly!" Perceived Enjoyment and Student Acceptance of Edutainment , 2012, Edutainment.

[21]  E. Facchini,et al.  Effects of edutainment employing abstinence and faithfulness messages on first-year students at the University of Nairobi. , 2007 .

[22]  Setia Wirawan,et al.  Analysis of Child Computer Interaction in Edutainment and Simulation Games Application on Android Pl , 2013 .