MRO-W Reports 2008-2009

This multidisciplinary, research project is designed to investigate the educational effects of computer learning games. Programming itself would not exist nor have meaning if it is separate from the applied environment. One environment that has an increasing number of computers is PK12 classrooms. This project was designed to determine important program features for educational games used in the classroom setting. There is a growing need to know empirically, how well the learning with simulations and games really works. As a result, a key goal of the proposed study is to investigate how computer games may affect learning outcomes. An additional purpose of this project was to measure the student engagement with the computer learning games. In this research, IT researchers focus on creating, revising, or identifying a set of well programmed learning game based on help from the researchers from the fields of education and integrated studies.