Strategy Research about Exploiting the Attention Resource of Learners in Educational Games

Comparing with computer game or online game, educational game is weak at attracting learners' attention. While attention plays a key role in the learning process of educational game. This paper, therefore, investigates the influence of computer game on teenage attention by questionnaire survey, starting with three characteristics of attention, and then analyzes that how computer game acts on attention. Based on the results, the paper puts forward the strategies about exploiting the attention resource of learners in educational game, intending to provide some guidelines for designer and developer of educational game.