The Function of Computer Education

Creating a motivational learning environment is one of the major objectives of educators and instructional designers. Researchers had theorized different strategies to facilitate greater learner engagement and interactions with instructional materials in a variety of disciplines, especially in those areas where students tend to view as boring, daunting, and difficult. Using educational video games, educational computer games in particular, is among the uprising strategies being used as motivational tools because it provides an environment of enjoyment and challenging among others. Many instructional materials were designed and delivered using educational computer games in many areas such as in military, medical education, and corporation training. Educational computer games were also deployed for learners of different ages such as preschoolers, teenagers, and adults. With more and more people learning through non-traditional channels, that is schools and textbooks, educational computer games seem to be an instructional strategy that can have tremendous influences in social and culture perceptions to the information age.