I've had a proceeding on edutainment based-portal for cultural education. But there still question and something bother with the term edutainment when i found an article said its not suitable for early age student since it suppose to be more motory then sensory.
From my research edutainment base on term education that entertaining as e learning base system that use a lot of interactive educational game.
I need your excellence and enriching input on differentiation between edutainment, e-learning and interactive educational games?
can you give example?
I think I agree with Mitchel Resnick, Edutainment? No Thanks.
I Prefer Playful Learning:
http://llk.media.mit.edu/papers/edutainment.pdf
Let me quote from the above paper:
"So why don’t I like edutainment? The problem is with the way that creators of today’s edutainment products tend to think about learning and education. Too often, they view education as a bitter medicine that needs the sugar-coating of entertainment to become palatable. They provide entertainment as a reward if you are willing to suffer through a little education. Or they boast that you will have so much fun using their products that you won’t even realize that you are learning—as if learning were the most unpleasant experience in the world."
Thus the teaching and learning from a talented teacher is the bast! Thus the problem is: Should we use bad teachers+Edutainment etc. of have a method to find the talented teachers?
As for e-learning, it has a nice property: You can repeat questioning without having to do this in frond of the whole class. Also the material is there whenver you need it. An e-class can be really wonderful, but it need hard work!
I think I agree with Mitchel Resnick, Edutainment? No Thanks.
I Prefer Playful Learning:
http://llk.media.mit.edu/papers/edutainment.pdf
Let me quote from the above paper:
"So why don’t I like edutainment? The problem is with the way that creators of today’s edutainment products tend to think about learning and education. Too often, they view education as a bitter medicine that needs the sugar-coating of entertainment to become palatable. They provide entertainment as a reward if you are willing to suffer through a little education. Or they boast that you will have so much fun using their products that you won’t even realize that you are learning—as if learning were the most unpleasant experience in the world."
Thus the teaching and learning from a talented teacher is the bast! Thus the problem is: Should we use bad teachers+Edutainment etc. of have a method to find the talented teachers?
As for e-learning, it has a nice property: You can repeat questioning without having to do this in frond of the whole class. Also the material is there whenver you need it. An e-class can be really wonderful, but it need hard work!
@Dony, agree with @Costas! Playful Learning instead of Edutainment, yes. Here is another paper "What Makes a Good Learning Game? Going beyond edutainment"! There are many additional reading on this issue!
http://elearnmag.acm.org/archive.cfm?aid=1943210
Edutainment is the main trend of the development of the modern system of the higher education. On the bases on this new trend, a new model of modern university is formated. Universities were placed under an obligation to maintain and report their educational and research activities, in a detailed s_e_l_f monitoring and s_e_l_f evaluation system.
This is from Prof. Roslina
It depends on how that article defined edutainment. At young age, a child needs to develop both because both support brain development. The movie Frozen is one evidence of edutainment. Edutainment refers to educating while entertaining. E-learning more on academic curriculum. Interactive educational game is more on problem solving.
Dear prof costas, thats the article thats bother me. Where in some develop country we pushes students to use technology but the educational standar is low while in country like finland and sweden student learn by playing outdoor not using technology this goes primarly to early year or elementary students.
Prof Jacic excellent paper to read.
As Prof. Sergiy said edutainment is development method for higher learning where students have balance their left and right brain as sensory and motory.
But with concept of edutainment as an entertaining suppose to be an interesting method to attract or develop more students interest in all level isn't?
Aside to have a real play concept in learning especially with school that have limited space and time.
Edutainment is entertainment (such as through games, films, or shows) that is designed to teach something. That way it is same as Interactive educational games.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_entertainment
Interactive educational games provide young student brain with a lot of workout. It can challenge him/her with various games so that they will learn while playing. That is a fun way to learn some very interesting and often difficult concepts in subjects such as mathematics. This is good for school children. You can see an example here:
http://softschools.com/math/games/
e-Learning is much more broad in its definition. It will be used by colleges and universities to provide education utilizing the internet and other communication technologies to provide education to the student at his/her own pace based on the available free time. e-Learning reduces the cost of learning.
A good article can be seen here about e-Learning.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/14/e-learning-universities-internet-education-online-courses
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