Educational game

An educational game is designed to teach knowledge or skills through play, practice, or problem-solving. It combines learning objectives with game activities and feedback.

Game-based learning: An instructional approach that uses games or game-like activities to support learning. Educational games are one way to put this broader instructional approach into practice.
Serious game: A game created primarily for a purpose beyond entertainment, such as education, training, or public communication. Educational games form a major part of the broader serious-game category.
Gamification: The use of game elements in activities that are not themselves games. An educational game is a game; gamification adds features such as points or badges to instruction.
The Oregon Trail (video game): A historical simulation game in which players guide a wagon party traveling west across nineteenth-century North America. It combines historical setting with resource management and consequential decisions.
Learning outcomes: The knowledge, skills, or attitudes that learners are expected to develop. A game’s educational value depends on whether play supports its intended learning outcomes.
Instructional design: The systematic planning of learning experiences, materials, and assessments. Learning goals and activities must be aligned when designing an educational game.
Simulation: A model or activity that represents aspects of a real or imagined system. Simulation games let learners practice decisions in systems too costly or risky to reproduce directly.
Edutainment: Media or activities that combine educational content with entertainment. Edutainment may teach through many formats, while an educational game makes play central.
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?: An educational computer game series in which players solve cases by using geographical and cultural clues. Its detective structure turns recall and interpretation of geographic information into play.
Transfer of learning: The application of knowledge or skills learned in one setting to a different setting. Learning inside a game matters most when it carries over to tasks beyond the game.

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