The Design And Realization Of Educational Online Games

As the sign of new technology and new culture, network game has become one of the primary entertainments of the youth, and cast deep influence to their study, life and way of recognition in the information age. Network game has educational potentials, for it is the simulation to the reality, and in some degree, meets the needs of the new culture in the information age. Some of the scholars in our country, therefore, started to pay particular attentions to the educational values of network game, and attempted to apply some of its beneficial factors to the education. The concept of Educational network game comes into being in this way.The development of Educational network game is based on computer technology and network technology. It integrates the advantages of ordinary network games, but is different from the network games for pure entertainments, or the traditional classroom instruction. Educational network game creates a free, harmonious and attractive learning environment, and helps to enhance the interests and operational abilities of the learners. It also inspire the learner's thoughts, helps the learners to find and solve problems independently and trains teamwork spirits and will of creation as well.This article has four parts: Theory, Design, Implementation and Evaluation. First of all, based on the comprehensive literature reviews, it summarizes the status and progresses of the current researches in Educational network game, nationally and internationally. Then, in the Theory part, it describes the fundamental theories of education and game, and the intrinsic connections between them. It also clarifies the concept of Educational network game, and analyzes the characteristics, classification, educational values and theoretical bases of development of Educational network game. Then, in the Design part, considering the current situation that there are few connections between Educational network game and classroom instruction, integrating the formats and features of educational methods and network games, putting together the principles of the designs of educational software and network game, using the arithmetic instruction in the ?teaching syllabus of mathematics for full—time primary schools? issued in 2000 as the contents, we designed the Educational network game《Shu zi xiao xiao le》, with the principle that game makes up the external form whereas the internal kernel is composed of educational goals and contents going through all over the game design. Finally, the game design is implemented and tested after the mathematic classes of the elementary school students, and the experiment proves that this Educational network game is instructive and does help the students to improve their arithmetic capabilities.